Americas Best Lost Recipes: 121 heirloom recipes too good to forget
by The Editors of Cook's Country Magazine
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Author: The Editors of Cook's Country MagazineEdition: Spiral-bound
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-10
ISBN: 1933615184
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Cook's Illustrated
Book Reviews of Americas Best Lost Recipes: 121 heirloom recipes too good to forget
Book Review: Intriguing title, lacluster recipes
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought this book with the idea that I would find some vaguely familiar sounding recipe names. I "read" the entire book, but found none intriguing. There is probably a good reason that these recipes were lost, but I doubt the "best" part is correct.
Summary of Americas Best Lost Recipes: 121 heirloom recipes too good to forget
Ever heard of cold-oven pound cake, Hummingbird Cake, Mile-High Bologna Pie, or Mashed-Potato Fudge?You'll find these recipes and more like them in America's Best Lost Recipes, a book that grew out of a nationwide contest for the best heirloom recipes, with recipes selected and put through their paces by the editors of Cook's Country magazine.
Evocative of both family ties and our national heritage, recipes like these are powerful touchstones for the past. Packed with full-color photos and enhanced features that make it a perfect gift (blank pages on which to detail your own family's lost recipes, a pocket to hold the recipes, and a bookplate), this collection features food you will want to make for your family and friends. Test kitchen notes tell the story of our recipe testing and detail what you need to know to be successful in the kitchen.
Contest entrants describe the recipes and history in their own words in brief introductions, lending this collection a narrative and personal quality few cookbooks possess. A slice of Americana, America's Best Lost Recipes aims to preserve the best our culinary heritage has to offer.
Cook's Country magazine, published by the indefatigable America's Test Kitchen, also home to Cook's Illustrated magazine, culls homey recipes from cooks nationwide. America's Best Lost Recipes contains 120 of these traditional family formulas, judged worthy of modern attention. These include the likes of Summer Squash Souffl?, Poor Boy Stroganoff, Almond Crescents with Burnt Butter Icing, and Clara's Chocolate Torte.
As with other America's Test Kitchen efforts, the goal has been to present "best" versions of favorite dishes. Original recipes have thus been tweaked where necessary (for example, extra yeast has been added to a monkey bread formula to speed its preparation) to ensure convenient, tasty results. Included also are "biographical" notes that place recipes in context, and useful tips that explore the testing process and thus provide technical insights. Color photos and a spiral-bound book add to the attractiveness of this tempting collection. --Arthur Boehm
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