Synopses & Reviews
Come Home to the Country Kitchen!
"...a treasure trove of folksy tips, homey recipes, and guides for forgotten chores like making butter and sour cream, alongside recipes for salsas and chutneys. Inside is something for everyone." (Susan Herrmann Loomis, Author of Farmhouse Cookbook and Proprietor of On Rue Tatin Cooking School)
"...full of intriguing, country recipes from our past (consider making you own goat cheese) and easy-to-read charts, as well as the satisfying rural cuisine that we have come to respect and love. I am eager to try Hibiscus Tea, Johnny Appleseed Cake, Crispy Fried Squash Blossoms, and the Zucchini Parmesan Jalapeno Flatbread. A great book for either a beginning or advanced cook." (Marcia Adams, Author of More Recipes From Quilt Country and Producer of PBS's Marcia Adams' Kitchen)
Martha Storey, country-living publisher for more than 17 years, draws on her country roots to bring you the time-honored classics of the American country kitchen.
Here you'll find simple, mouthwatering dishes with country soul, potluck-supper recipes that are never out of style, and family favorites that you will hand down to your children and grandchildren.
Recipes include Mimi's Sunday Pot Roast, Blueberry Sour Cream Pancakes, Daddy's Banana Pudding, Perfect Grilled Vegetables, Peach Cobbler Ring, Aunt Ina's Relish, and hundreds more!
Martha also shares techniques for such things as making cheese, preserving food, pulling taffy, baking bread, and making pies and ice cream.
Synopsis
In this chock-full-of-recipes cookbook, Martha Storey, country living publisher for more than 17 years, draws on her own country roots and on the experience of Storey's many expert authors to teach you how to create these simple, mouthwatering dishes with country soul in more than 600 fully illustrated recipes. These are the potluck supper recipes that are never out of style and that will be passed on to your children and grandchildren.
Martha also covers the skills of the country kitchen. From woodstove to microwave, Martha shares tips and techniques for making cheese, preserving food, making sausage, pulling taffy, baking bread, and making pies and ice cream. This heirloom cookbook, with old-fashioned and updated country techniques and know-how, is as complete as your great-grandmother's pantry! www.marthastorey.com. A Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club's Good Cook Club.
Synopsis
The country kitchen is an American icon. Everyone, whether they live in a log cabin or a luxury high-rise, strives to capture some of that warmth, flavor, fragrance, and feeling in their own kitchens. Martha Storey, country-living publisher for more than 17 years, draws on her own country roots and on the experience of Storey's many expert authors to help readers learn or relearn the time-honored skills of the American country kitchen and revisit the classics of down-home cooking.
In this chock-full-of-recipes cookbook, Martha shares her family's and friends' favorite tried-and-true country-cooking recipes. These are the simple dishes with country soul that make your mouth water. They are the church supper recipes that are never out of style and that will become the hand-me-down recipes you pass on to your children and grandchildren. In addition to providing these classic recipes, Martha covers the skills of the country kitchen. From woodstove to microwave, Martha shares tips and techniques for making cheese, preserving food, making sausage, pulling taffy, baking bread, and making pies and ice cream.
This heirloom cookbook, with old-fashioned and updated country techniques and know-how, is as complete as your great-grandmother's pantry!
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 504) and index.
About the Author
Martha Storey lent her party-planning advice to Keeping Entertaining Simple. She has mastered the art of relaxed hostessing, whether giving small dinner parties for close friends or large corporate picnics, and she shares her secrets and inspiring ideas with readers. Country-living publisher for more than 17 years, Martha also draws on her country roots to bring you the time-honored classics of the American country kitchen in her book, Treasured Country Recipes from Martha Storey and Friends. Martha founded Storey Communications, Inc. with her husband John in 1983. She has three children and eight grandchildren. She lives in western Massachusetts and farm in Westport, New York.