Blueberry Connection Blueberry Cookery with Flavor Fact & Folklore

The Connection Cookbooks make up a culinary adventure series that begins with sugaring in the spring, continues through berry picking in the summer, and culminates with cranberries and apples in the fall.

Each book is lavishly illustrated with hand drawings, and the recipes are written in ink as if they were penned by a mother to be handed down, to her daughter. Scattered throughout the books are homilies and facts about the food item that is the topic of the book.

An adventure in indigo, summer sapphires, dewy bunches of blue -- it's blueberries! Tucked between more than 200 hand-lettered recipes, are bits of fact, fluff, and folklore.

An Adventure in indigo, summer sapphires, dewy downy bunches of black and blue -what else but BLUEBERRIES And what goes best with blueberries? Memories Memories of berry pickin' time and the delectable delights that follow -pies, jams, jellies, cakes, cookies, puddings, drinks, salads, and, of course, blueberry muffins. The Blueberry Connection has them all. And tucked between the hand-lettered recipes are bits of fact, fluff, and folklore -absolutely anything that you can imagine about blueberries. Over 200 recipes A Companion volume to The Blueberry Connection is The Cranberry Connection, another bog adventure which, says the Washington D.C. Star, "includes recipes for such gourmet delights as cranberry shrimp dip, cranberry ham glaze, cranberry mincemeat, and four-fruit chutney." The Register of Des Moines, Iowa, calls it "a treasure," and Canadian Living says, "it's more than a cookbook, it also celebrates Beatrice Ross Buszek's Rediscovery of her Maritime roots."

The Blueberry Connection has blueberry cookery with flavor, fact, and folklore from memories, libraries, and kitchens of old and new friends and strangers. What goes best with blueberries? Memories of berry picking and the delectable delights that follow-pies, jams, jellies, cakes, cookies, puddings and drinks, salads, and of course, blueberry muffins -- this book has them all. And tucked among the hand-lettered recipes are fact and folklore about the blueberry. Includes more than 100 recipes.