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Americas Best Lost Recipes: 121 heirloom recipes too good to forget
- Spiral-bound
- Author: The Editors of Cook's Country Magazine
- Publisher: Cook's Illustrated
- Release Date: October 2007
- ISBN-10: 1933615184
- ISBN-13: 9781933615189
- List Price: $29.95
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryCook'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 Soufflé, 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 |
Customer Reviews
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Wonderful Recipes
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I bought this cookbook after seeing it at someone's home. I think the "old" recipes are the best for envoking thoughts and memories of loved ones. There are great recipes and even better stories. I have given 2 as gifts.
America's Best Lost Recipes
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I expected to see many restaurant recipes, but instead got too many family recipes. I certainly did not want "Grandpa Cooley's Angry Deviled Eggs" nor "G-mom's Spanish Dressing'. Many of the recipes should have remained lost.
BOOK
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I GAVE THIS AS A GIFT TO A COOKBOOK COLLECTOR. SHE IA VERY HAPPY WITH IT.
Beautifully bound... but where's the beef?!?
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If the America's Test Kitchen folks would take the recipes from their new The Cook's Country Cookbook: Regional and Heirloom Favorites Tested and Reimagined for Today's Home Cooks, and put them into the format and binding of this text, then they'd have one of the best cookbooks on the market!
I have rarely come across a cookbook which is as user-friendly as "Lost Recipes" -- it's sturdy, it lies open perfectly, the paper stock is heavy and resists stains, the recipes are one-per-page with terrific color photos alongside many of the finished dishes, the fonts are quite readable, and there's a nice back section of lined pages for one's personal notes.
Unfortunately, a large number of the recipes in here are not of a sort which are going to hold much appeal for most home chefs in terms of feeding their families. Kolotny Borscht (p. 32) and Chocolate Marlow (p. 168) are just not the types of dishes which excite one's taste buds.
I bought this book, chiefly for two reasons:
1. to find some of the so-called "lost recipes" which I anticipated being in here (and they were not), and,
2. to have some really old-timey, good-quality, home-cooking recipes.
These expectations having not been fulfilled, this cookbook has been lying around in the way for a couple of months now. I'm going to pass it on to a niece who enjoys making recipes that are out on the fringe in the hope that she can find something in this text.
The staff of America's Test Kitchen is comprised of some really well-schooled and knowledgeable people but I wish they had worked with different "lost recipes" than the ones I found here. There are a total of 121 recipes to be found throughout the text and my wife and I could discover only six that we had any interest in trying -- here are the lonely six which we liked:
Cheese Puffs, (p. 3)
Szekely Goulash (Pork Stew with Sauerkraut), (p. 38)
Texas Chili Dogs, (p. 40)
Naked Ladies with Their Legs Crossed, (p. 68)
Gram's Doughnuts, (p. 71)
7-Up Cake, (p. 113)
For the price of the book, six recipes of interest manifested a notable disappointment. For a superb America's Test Kitchen Cookbook (in terms of both the format and the recipe quality), get this one: The America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook, Heavy-Duty Revised Edition
Real recipes for real people, with great stories
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I checked this book out at the library before I bought it, so I already knew it was a winner. It's a perfect cookbook - recipes that real people can make with ingredients we all have, great pictures and just enough history to make it interesting, but not distracting. Highly recommended.
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