Holly Clegg's Trim and Terrific Home Entertaining the Easy Way: Fast and Delicious Recipes for Every Occasion
Author: Holly Berkowitz Clegg
Updated with Holly's new series look is this beautiful hardcover cookbook for everyone who loves to entertain. Gorgeously illustrated, this cookbook is a complete guide to cooking for company and planning a party-while eating healthy and delicious food! Expert at creating user-friendly recipes tailored to the busy, health-conscious consumer, Holly provides simple and stylish decorating suggestions and tips for advance preparation. From a sumptuous but streamlined spring brunch buffet with Shrimp and Cheese Grits Casserole and Baked Praline Orange French Toast, to a barbecue bash with Glazed Chicken, Roasted Potato Salad, and Pasta Coleslaw, these are recipes that make special occasion cooking seem simple and health-wise, as well as delicious.
Cookies: 1,001 Mouthwatering Recipes from around the World
Author: Editors of Readers Digest
Here is the ultimate cookie book, with more than 1,000 recipes. This treasury of cookie baking will appeal to all tastes from simple to sophisticated. This beautifully photographed cookbook has easy-to-follow instructions that will make this an invaluable addition to any baker's collection. Each recipe has been kitchen-tested-along with helpful hints and tips-to make cookie baking fun and foolproof.
Publishers Weekly
This hulking volume impresses with its breadth-home bakers could make a different cookie every weekend for 19 years and never repeat a recipe-but that range does come at a price. All kinds of cookies are represented: drop cookies, rolled cookies, brownies, icebox cookies, tea cakes, macaroons and more, with a strong showing of European favorites, and there are umpteen variations on standards (e.g., 12 versions of madeleines, small spongelike cookies baked in shell-shaped molds, and 27 orange-based cookies). However, small print and a lack of introductory notes to most recipes will deter some readers. Without a header, how are readers to know what Bran Cookies might taste like? Brandy Butter Shortbread's introduction says it's "A wonderfully rich Christmas treat," yet the following two recipes-Almond Shortbread with Blackberry Topping and Chocolate Chip Shortbread-offer no explanations on when bakers might opt for them instead, or what they might pair these desserts with. The copious photos are inspiring; the cookies-especially the Smiling Face Cookies and Cookie Hands-look homemade and attainable by most bakers (each recipe has a level of difficulty, and most are fairly easy). Helpful sidebars show progressive photos of the steps involved in such processes as making biscotti and rolling sugar cookies. This vast confection catalogue will motivate serious bakers. Casual cookie-makers, however, might be overwhelmed. (Nov.) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
Library Journal
This big book offers hundreds of recipes for cookies both familiar and unusual, from Snickerdoodles to Swedish Spritskransar, accompanied by dozens of color photographs. Unfortunately, the full-page color photos are overhead shots taken in such extreme close-up as to inspire vertigo; with headnotes provided for only a fraction of them, the array of recipes also becomes somewhat dizzying. It would have been helpful to have a note identifying Crunchy Crags, for example, and descriptions of the textural and flavor differences among the numerous variations on different cookie themes. Nancy Baggett's The International Cookie Cookbook (o.p.), the standard on the topic, offers fewer recipes but in a far more accessible, reader-friendly format. For comprehensive baking collections. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
Table of Contents:
| Introduction | 10 | |
| Drop cookies | 12 | |
| Rolled cookies | 64 | |
| Bars & brownies | 118 | |
| Icebox cookies | 160 | |
| Shortbread cookies | 182 | |
| Piped & shaped cookies | 200 | |
| Meringues & macaroons | 226 | |
| Wafers & thins | 246 | |
| Italian biscotti | 266 | |
| Dainty tea cakes | 278 | |
| Festive cookies | 294 | |
| No-bake cookies | 320 | |
| Fried cookies | 330 | |
| Decorating & serving | 338 | |
| Index | 350 |
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