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Summary: Great, easy-to-follow recipes
Comment: This small cookbook is a wonderful resource for a baker of any level of experience. The introduction includes notes on following a recipe, measuring ingredients, and information on common ingredients. Following are chapters on breakfast breads, coffeecakes, tea breads, and kuchens.The recipes included are: (chapter 1) spicy upside-down sausage corn bread, whole-wheat date-and-nut bread, applesauce-oatmeal raisin cake, whole-wheat carrot-apple honey cake, very-low-fat applesauce brown-sugar bread, Lawsons' prune oat-bran bread, breakfast fruit-and-nut bread, Milo O'Sullivan's currant-nutmeg soda bread, (chapter 2) pecan streusel coffeecake, nutmeg plum cobbler cake, simple sour-cream spice cake, lots-of-blueberries coffeecake, cinnamon-raisin coffeecake, oatmeal streusel coffeecake, chocolate-marbled sour-cream cake with cinnamon-almond topping, sour-cherry almond crunch cake, spicy prune cake, rhubarb upside-down cake, (chapter 3) intense chocolate tea bread (a personal favorite), orange sour-cream loaf, dried pear anise and walnut tea bread, molasses ginger cake, Gretchen's cranberry-apple cake, sweet marsala-rosemary corn meal cake, chocolate-orange crumb cake, Newmarket cake, armagnac prune and walnut tea bread, brandied currant tea bread, sunflower-seed brown-rice tea bread, (chapter 4) blueberry-raspberry kuchen, plum-walnut kuchen, Swedish apple-almond kuchen, pear-almond kuchen, sour-cherry-almond kuchen, vanilla pear custard kuchen, lemon apple kuchen, harvest tart, and peaches-and-cream kuchen. (Is that a great list or what?)
This is a great book. Its recipes are short and easy to follow, and the products made are simply heavenly. If you are interested in these sorts of recipes, then I strongly recommend that you get this book!
