Customer Reviews

Applehood and Motherpie

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Applehhood and Motherpie is my favorite cookbook. Every recipe that I have made has become a family favorite. Everytime I have guests over, and I serve a dish from this book, I am asked for the recipe. Applehood and Motherpie offers quick and easy meals for the worn out mother or working woman. It also offers elegant and dazzling meals that are easy to follow for the more special events.

My mother has been using this cookbook since it was published in the early '80s. The recipes go from quick and easy family pleasers to elegant evening fair. Some of the recipes are still weekly meals in not only my mom's house, but my own too!! We were so excited to find it here! Now it's not only graces my mother and my cookbook libraries, but we also give it as shower and wedding presents! Everyone should own this cookbook! It is the best ever!

I have brought many of these dishes, salads etc. to parties & showers. People are always are asking for the recipes and complimenting these delicious and different recipes. One of my favorites is for a fast, easy salad of romaine lettuce, strawberries, onions with a wonderful poppyseed dressing.

My mother gave me a copy of Applehood & Motherpie after she became worried I was going to steal hers. This 320 page paperback is NOT a beautiful cookbook (no pictures, green text on white pages), but it contains some of my favorite childhood recipes:

Canoe Crab Dip
Chili Caseoso
Susan's Mushroom Croustades
Grandma Ada's Orange Rolls
Apple Cheese Torte

And the recipe for Strawberry and Onion Salad with Poppyseed dressing is worth the price alone. I would not recommend this cookbook as a gift, but I would recommend it to anyone with ties to Upstate New York looking for a new, old school all-purpose cookbook.

I love the cover of this book - it flips out and creates an easel for the book to lean on. Ingenious! I have prepared many recipes from this book and have loved most all of them. I like their "little red apple", which flags recipes that the editors and recipe testers thought were especially good. Like all Junior League cookbooks, you get the feeling that you have raided the best dishes from the recipe boxes of many people.

I have successfully used recipes from this wonderful book ever since its publication. Upstate New Yorkers know how to cook!

I have had this cookbook for at least 10 years, maybe more. I have used many recipes, but I do have my favorites. It's worth buying the book just for the Senator Russell Sweet Potatoes recipe. I make this every year for Thanksgiving, and even my husband, who won't eat anything else mashed, and my oldest son, who doesn't like mashed OR nuts, love this dish. I serve it with the turkey, even though it can be a dessert. If there are leftovers, they are gone the next day... Also a favorite is the Brunch Casserole. There are great recipes for quiche, and even, believe it or not, apple pie! You won't be sorry if you buy this for yourself or as a gift. :0)

I bought this cookbook in Rochester, NY when I lived their in 1981. I have dozens of cook books and this one sits right in the front row. I even know most of the places of the recipe Authors live as listed on the recipes. Many came from owners of restaurants in these areas. This book won't teach you how to cook hamburgers, but is an awesome alternative to most cookbooks. It has simple to very elegant dishes, my absolute favorites are in the chowders and the seafood section. The recipes steps and ingredients are dead on (meaning if my dog could read it, she couldn't screw it up and it would be delicious.)

Really, you cannot go wrong with this one. 10 stars.
D. Holladay

This is our favorite cookbook! We have tried multiple recipes and have never been disappointed.

i have never made anything from this cookbook that wasnt a success! my favorite cookbook by a mile for almost 20 years.