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Mennonite Community Cookbook: Favorite Family Recipes |
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Mennonite Community Cookbook: Favorite Family Recipes |
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Dewey Decimal Number: 641 EAN: 9780836136258 ISBN: 083613625X Label: Herald Press Languages: Manufacturer: Herald Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 494 Publication Date: 1992-09 Publisher: Herald Press Studio: Herald Press Editorial Review: Product Description: Showalter has collected 1,100 recipes--tantalizing dishes brought to this country directly from old Dutch, German, Swiss, and Russian kitchens--from hundreds of Mennonite women noted for their excellent cooking. Each chapter is introduced by the author's own nostalgic recollection of cooking in her grandmother's day. Color photos and illustrations throughout. Related Items:
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 Rating: - The best cookbook to hand down to your children!This cookbook is our families favorite and not just because we are Mennonite! I cooked this way long before I became Mennonite and this book has many recipes that we all use in our family for every day eating. When my children got married and moved out on their own, each one of them received this cookbook as a present. They all looked forward to getting it. Even still, 15 years after the last one married, I still receive calls from them asking if I could help them with recipe so-and-so on page whichever. Hahaha. Makes an empty nester still feel useful I can say for sure and for certain! Anyways, this cookbook has so many recipes in it that are good, healthy ways to eat. And then there are those that are not, but those are the ones that usually taste the best! We love the recipe for chicken in sour sauce which is heavy with sour cream. And the corn casserole to go with it. Usually followed at the end by one of the many great pie recipes here too. I wouldn't be without this cookbook in my kitchen and refer back to it often. So if you are looking for a good, easy to use cookbook that is packed full of easy to make recipes and that have lots of comfort foods in it too, then this is the cookbook for you and your family. Mine liked it a LOT better than even the new Better Homes and Garden cookbook! Rating: - Really Good Real Home Cooking Cookbook! Highly Recommended!My wife asked me to find another copy of the "Mennonite Community Cookbook" to give to my daughter so she wouldn't have to take ours. I don't want my wife to be without this cookbook, so was happy that Amazon carried it :-) As several of the other reviewers point out, the recipes included in this cookbook are not low anything (insert Fat, Salt, Sugar, Carb, other unhealthy item, etc). That being said, they can generally be adapted by a good cook to be more healthy by substituting alternative ingredients. This book gets a lot use in our house and I, as a recipient of the excellent meals that result, highly recommend it! Rating: - This is my most used cookbookThe recipes in this book are for farmers, who are cold all winter and hot all summer, so they are hearty and filling. However, if you are trying to cook light, they are easily modifiable. Use ground turkey instead of ground beef or sausage. Use turkey sausage instead of pork sausage, etc. You can often substitute canola oil for butter. You really only need to use shortening or lard when it effects the consistency, like in pie crust. Even made as they are written, these recipes are much healthier than the average fast food or restaraunt meal. They are also healthier than the average prepared meal out of the grocery store freezer. They are meant to be served up with heaping helpings of fresh vegetables. Some are great simple fare to serve up when you don't have time to cook. I find that the farmer's summer supper (a mixture of torn bread, fresh fruit and fresh milk) is great on hot summer nights when its too hot to turn on the oven and heat up the kitchen. I have used the sour milk griddle cake recipe for decades (substitute buttermilk if the idea of using sour milk bothers you, or sour fresh milk with a tablespoon of vinegar). Recently, I have gotten totally hooked on the buckwheat pancake recipe. I love the cornbread recipe, and I often make it by substituting a can of creamed corn for the milk. Its much healthier than eating store bought bread, with whole grain and vegetables both in the same bread. Rating: - good foodI grew up in a Mennonite home and many of these foods, I've given this to cookbook to many of my friends and extended family members. Some really great dishes, try the graham cracker fluff it's a favorite at our house.
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