The Foxfire Americana Library brings you back-to-basics recipes for breads, cornbreads, puddings, cakes, and pies that are just as easily baked on a modern oven as the traditional Appalachian woodstoves where they began. For adventurous cooks, this volume also includes instructions and diagrams on how to build a churn and make your own butter.

Recipes include:
 
Corn Pone
Hush Puppies
Rye Bread
Cracklin’ Bread
Molasses Sweet Bread
Syrup Bread
Dried Apple Cake
Tame Gooseberry Pie
Aunt Arie’s Recipe for Egg Custard