More-With-Less Cookbook
by Doris Janzen Longacre
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Book Reviews of More-With-Less Cookbook
Book Review: A book that helped us live through poverty
Summary: 5 Stars
I found this book reduced on the rack of my local grocery store 18 years ago. We lived on a homestead in N Mich., supporting three people on my husband's income of $150/wk. I had $10/wk for groceries, bought staples in 20lb bags thru a food co-op, and froze or canned almost everything we ate. This book was used more than any other cookbook in my library. I learned how to make my own brown sugar, pancake syrup, soybean sandwich spread, and many other things I couldn't afford to buy at the store. This cookbook allowed us to eat better quality meals than most people with much higher incomes, and also let me stretch my dollar to the limit. I don't have such income restrictions today, but still live and eat simply. By the way, my favorite recipe is the Six-layer dish (Casserole). It is very simple to prepare in the morning, bake slowly all day, and gets raves at pot-lucks for flavor. Enjoy!Book Review: Enduring wisdom and recipes
Summary: 5 Stars
I plan to buy a second copy of this cookbook because my copy of the original edition is stained with 24 years of use. This is where I go for ideas when I have to fix a meal and don't have anything special around to use. This food isn't gourmet, but there are plenty of plain, good recipes. This book has my favorite recipes for cornbread and tortillas, and many, many main dish recipes for basic home cooking. The spiral binding is a big plus, allowing the book to be laid open flat while I cook. More cookbooks should be bound this way!
Of course the greatest treasure of this book is the wisdom and insight of Doris Longacre, the late author. For the reader who never plans to cook a thing, the insights she shares about life, hospitality, the world's resources and respect for other cultures all make the More-With-Less Cookbook worth buying and reading multiple times.
Book Review: Simple cooking, simply great
Summary: 5 Stars
The two bad reviews of this cookbook that I've seen focus on it being too simple and "reducing" the subtlety of recipes. After growing up as a missionary kid in West Africa with a mom who relied on this cookbook and after learning how to cook out of it, I disagree. The recipes are simple so that you can modify them to suit your own tastes and what's locally available. If you're looking for a gourmet cookbook, this isn't it...but if you're looking for a superb basic cookbook that will teach you not only how to cook but also how to be more aware of the world around you, this is it. I have other cookbooks that I use frequently, but if I could only have two, I've have Joy of Cooking and this. The Oatmeal Bread, Spaghetti Sauce, Scrambled Eggs & Noodles and Chow Mein recipes are amongst my all-time favorites.Book Review: A cookbook well worth its price!
Summary: 5 Stars
While studying in Nairobi, Kenya, I was introduced to this wonderful cookbook by a missionary couple. Now as a wife and mother, I often turn to its simple recipes that appeal to the palate as well as the pocketbook. And its basic premise - conserving the world's limited food resources - encourages you to make a difference by 1) working to eliminate processed foods from your diet; 2) eating less meat; and 3) consuming more fruits, vegetables and grains.As a companion to More-With-Less, I recommend Extending the Table: A World Community Cookbook, by Joetta Handrich Schlabach. It also contains frugal recipes with a delightful variety of international flavors.
Both cookbooks contain interesting vignettes about the origins of many recipes.
Book Review: Will become an instant favorite for the family cook
Summary: 5 Stars
With a comb binding allowing it to be laid out flat for cooking convenience, Doris Longacre's More-With-Less Cookbook is a showcase of Mennonite recipes for eating better while consuming less of the world's limited food resources. From Whole Wheat Pineapple Muffins, Vietnam Fried Rice, Three-Grain Peanut Bread, and Poor Man's Lobster Thermidor, to German Potato Noodles, Applesauce Crunch, Garden Vegetable Curry, and Old-Fashioned Sugar Cookies, More-With-Less Cookbook is a superbly presented collection of outstanding recipes. Along with an organized ingredients list and cooking instructions, each individual recipe notes how many servings to expect. More-With-Less Cookbook will become an instant favorite for the family cook.