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Learn to COOK - The Fannie Farmer Cookbook: Anniversary
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List Price: $30.00
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Manufacturer: Knopf
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5973
EAN: 9780679450818
ISBN: 0679450815
Label: Knopf
Manufacturer: Knopf
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 896
Publication Date: 1996-09-09
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date: 1996-09-09
Studio: Knopf
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Here is the great basic American cookbook—with more than 1,990 recipes, plain and fancy—that belongs in every household.
Originally published in 1896 as The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer, it became the coobook that taught generations of Americans how to cook. Completely updating it for the first time since 1979, Marion Cunningham made Fannie Farmer once again a household word for a new generation of cooks.
What makes this basic cookbook so distinctive is that Marion Cunningham, who is the personification of the nineteenth-century teacher, is always at your side with her forthright tips and comments, encouraging the beginning cook and inspiring the more adventurous. She knows what today's cooks are looking for, and she has a way of instilling confidence and joy in the act of cooking.
In giving the book new life, Mrs. Cunningham has been careful always to preserve the best of the old. She has retained all the particularly good, tried-and-true recipes from preceding editions, retesting and rewriting when necessary. She has rediscovered lost treasures, including delicious recipes that were eliminated when practically no one baked bread at home. This is now the place to find the finest possible recipes for Pumpkin Soup, Boston Baked Beans, Carpetbag Steak, Roast Stuffed Turkey, Anadama Bread, Indian Pudding, Apple Pie, and all of the other traditional favorites.
The new recipes reflect ethnic influences—Mediterranean, Moroccan, Asian—that have been adding their flavors to American cooking in recent years. Tucked in among all your favorites like Old-Fashioned Beef Stew, New England Clam Chowder, Ham Timbales, and Chicken Jambalaya, you'll find her cool Cucumber Sushi, Enchiladas with Chicken and Green Sauce, or a layered dish of Polenta and Fish to add variety to your repertoire. Always a champion of old-fashioned breakfasts and delectable desserts, Mrs. Cunningham has many splendid new offerings to tempt you.
Throughout, cooking terms and procedures are explained, essential ingredients are spelled out, basic equipment is assessed. Mrs. Cunningham even tells you how to make a good cup of coffee and how to brew tea properly.
For the diet-conscious, there is an expanded nutritional chart that includes a breakdown of cholesterol and fat in common ingredients as well as in Fannie Farmer basic recipes. Where the taste of a dish would not be altered, Mrs. Cunningham has reduced the amount of cream and butter in some of the recipes from the preceding edition. She carefully evaluates the issues of food safety today and alerts us to potential hazards.
But the emphasis here is always on good flavor, fresh ingredients, and lots of variety in one's daily fare, which Marion Cunningham believes is the secret to a healthy diet. Dedicated to the home cooks of America, young and old, this thirteenth edition of the book that won the hearts of Americans more than a century ago invites us all—as did the original Fannie Farmer—to cherish the delights of the family table.
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Summary: great all purpose cookbook
Comment: this is a great all purpose cookbook. i gave it to my daughter as a shower present. i have had mine for 30 years. cas
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Summary: Review of Anniversary edition of Fanny Farmer Cookbook
Comment: This cookbook was purchased for a friend of mine who asked for help with baking recipies. She enjoys all sections of the book that concern baking and desserts. She has found the recipies in the cookbook to be easy to put together in terms of ingredients and the finished products taste very good. She would recommend this book to others who need information on baking and preparation of any desserts.
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Summary: A Classic
Comment: For everyday cooking, this is my go-to cookbook. It has basic recipes for almost everything and they are all good. Some are huge standouts too, like the Buttermilk Chocolate Cake.
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Summary: Still the one
Comment: If I could only have one cookbook -- this would be it. I buy it as a gift for kids starting out on their own and foreign visitors looking for a souvenir of America. It is nearly encyclopedic and the recipes are of a uniformly good quality. I find the recipes more consistently good than Betty Crocker and consistently better than the Joy of Cooking. The only general purpose standard American cookbook that beats it for the taste of the food is James Beard (who unfortunately died of heart failure for a reason -- food tastes better with more butter, cream and sugar).
Of course, I actually own a couple of hundred cookbooks -- so I no longer use it every day. I tend to find a recipe here, a recipe there that I like (often a unique treat). But when someone requests something standard that I don't have a special favorite for, I always start here. And Thanksgiving would not be Thanksgiving without Fanny Farmer on the counter -- sweet potatoes with pineapple (sometimes) and pecans (always) and creamed onions. This book has some of the best recipes of Marion Cunningham's other classic The Breakfast Book (e.g., Dutch Babies) but not all (so buy both). As with all New England cooking, it excels at the finish (Indian pudding, every cake in the book and cookies -- lace in particular). Pies are also first rate (although I usually use the Norske Nook for pies -- the advantage of having more books). By the way, the recipes do go beyond traditional American, I just rarely try the "ethnic" ones since I usually have a specialized alternative.
The only negative about the book is the formatting. The recipes are written in one paragraph (steps are not broken out). This makes them compact (and allows more recipes in a book). But I find it too easy to skip a sentence and miss a step.
If you are looking for a general purpose, day in day out cookbook, you cannot go wrong here.
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Summary: The Best of The Best!
Comment: The Fannie Farmer Cookbook has been a staple in our kitchen for over 30-years. I've not found a better guide and I give it as a gift to new households.
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