An Occasion to Gather or 500 Treasured Country Recipes from Martha Storey and Friends

An Occasion to Gather: Milwaukee Entertains

Author: The Junior League of Milwauke

An Occasion to Gather offers delicious menus, with fresh ingredients and easy to prepare gourmet dishes along with creative tips for entertaining. The stunning photography of Milwaukee landmarks and special recipes from local area chefs make this a must have for any cookbook collector.

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500 Treasured Country Recipes from Martha Storey and Friends: Mouthwatering, Time-Honored, Tried-and-True, Handed-Down, Soul-Satisfying Dishes

Author: Martha Storey

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!

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Storey is the cofounder of Storey Books, which publishes "country cooking" books, gardening guides, and other practical titles, and she's also the mother of three and the grandmother of eight. Many of these 500 recipes are family favorites, while others come from popular Storey authors. Time-honored, as the subtitle says, or dated, depending on your point of view, they include such old standards as Seafood Newburg (with Velveeta) and Frosted Lettuce Wedges; and many of the recipes are available in other standard sources. Perhaps the most useful parts of the book are the introduction and the sections on "Arts of the Country Kitchen" and "Arts of the Country Home," which include illustrated guides to techniques and terms, equipment and ingredients, preserving, cheese making, crafts, gardening, and more. For larger cookery and crafts collections. Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.