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Learn to COOK - Mennonite Community Cookbook: Favorite Family Recipes
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Manufacturer: Herald Press
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Binding: Plastic Comb
Dewey Decimal Number: 641
EAN: 9780836136258
ISBN: 083613625X
Label: Herald Press
Manufacturer: Herald Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 494
Publication Date: 1992-09
Publisher: Herald Press
Studio: Herald Press
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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.
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Summary: Really Good Real Home Cooking Cookbook! Highly Recommended!
Comment: 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!
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Summary: This is my most used cookbook
Comment: The 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.
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Summary: good food
Comment: I 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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Summary: A simply superb repository of old country flavor and culinary creations that have weathered the test of time
Comment: The Mennonite Community Cookbook is a major compilation of eleven hundred recipes drawn from Mennonite cookbooks and updated with standard measurements and directions but otherwise unaltered. These simple yet flavorful dishes were contributed by Mennonite families all over the United States and Canada, and include such offerings as Old-Fashioned Bean Soup, Salmon Roll with Egg Sauce, Toasted Spice Cake, and Baked Stuffed Turnips. Each recipe is quite short, yet the instructions are crystal clear and easy for cooks of all skill and experience levels to follow. The Mennonite Community Cookbook is a simply superb repository of old country flavor and culinary creations that have weathered the test of time.
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Summary: Mother's home cooking
Comment: I acknowledge the Madman's points: most of the recipes in this book do not conform to today's dietary standards. But bear in mind that this book was first written over 70 years ago. That's when my mother got her copy. She still has it with the cover's half-torn off and pages stuck in loose and scribbled on. This was a Pennsylvania Dutch housewife's book of recipes for Pennsylvania Dutch housewives. They weren't worried about waistlines or BMI numbers. They needed to feed their families who worked in the fields or guests over for a holiday feast.
I also agree that the strength is the desert section, but that is the specialty of the PA Dutch. My brother, sister, and I would spend winter days with mother making cookies from the recipes and I even took a turn at making the cream puff recipe once for a church social. They turned out great!
Not only is this a wonderful recipe book, but to me, it is a family treasure.
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