Customer Reviews

Authentic German Home Style Recipes

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I have just read this book cover to cover (something you just never do with cookbooks!). It was easy to read and had a wonderful touch of homey-ness with its quotes, histories, and helpful hints. And that's just window dressing to the recipes themselves! I've cooked german food for years now, and having looked at the recipes in this book, I find most to be very straightforward and well-documented. Gotta go... I'm about to diving into my kitchen with book in hand. :)

Thanks, Gini... great work!

I bought my first book when we were stationed in Germany. Then I bought one for my mom and sister-in-law. My son got married recently and I'm going to give them their own book. Try the bee sting cake. It's great. I wish that she would do another book with different recipes. If she does I'll sure buy one.

I bought an earlier edition of this book when I was stationed in Berlin back in the 80's. It was written by a German Woman who had moved to the US and could not easily find the ingredients her original German cookbooks called for. The goulash soup in this book is the closest I've ever come to the restaurants in Germany. This is not a professional chefs book. It was made for the home cook who wants to make dishes like they've had in Germany.

I bought this book at Milwaukee's Germanfest several years ago, and I consider it a lucky find. The quotes and information about German holidays and customs, are just delightful! And the recipes bring back many memories of time we spent in Germany.

It is worth getting the book for the brötchen recipe alone. We thought we'd never see good brötchen outside of Germany. Now we can make it at home!

I especially appreciated having this book when I was preparing holiday meals for my now-late German-born father-in-law. He was very pleased as well.

The recipes are easy to follow and use ingredients that are easy to find in America. The binding allows you to open the book and lay it down flat - very handy while you're cooking.

Finally, a cookbook that contains the recipes for some of the foods that I grew up with. I highly recommend this book. The first recipe I tried was the mischbrot. WOW!!! It turned out exactly as I remembered the fresh and aromatic loaf of bread that I picked up from the neighborhood baker in Germany. All of the other recipes are faithfully authentic (from my point of view) even tho some do not include the necessary caraway seeds.

I bought this book just before ETSing from the Army in 1999. After three years in Bavaria, I knew that one of the things I would miss most was the wonderful food.

Mrs. Youngkrantz does a fantastic job translating traditional German dishes for the American cook. She avoids hard-to-find ingredients. Everything in the book can be prepared with items you can buy in any supermarket, yet it all tastes completely authentic. I pull this one out for special occasion baking and for everyday suppers (I particularly love the Sauerbraten, prepared with a side of homemade Spaetzle). Anytime I get homesick for Germany, I know that I can turn to this book for, at least, a taste of what I miss.

The book is well organized and the recipes are set up in an easy to read format. They are usually contained to one page, so there's no flipping back and forth. The occasional anecdotes about German folklife are charming. I enjoy this cookbook so much that I have given copies as gifts.

Finally a cookbook from the region of Germany where I was born. So many of the recipes, especially their German names bring back memories of my mother cooking. I guess you could call it "German comfort food." The information on various holidays brought a smile to my face and wonderful memories of years gone by. My children always enjoyed Oma's cooking and now will be able to cook, just like Oma. Thank you Gini for bringing a small part of Germany to America.

The Recipes are authentic and comprehensive, thought a little bit too south-German for my liking (I'm north-German). Thus, nothing to complain about the content. But nevertheless I was upset when I got the book, especially since it meant to be a present. It's a ring-book: top and a back held together by a couple of plastic rings. This is not a hardcover, this is something every copy shop does for $1.99.

I like the home publishing and the really good home cooking. I DON'T like the plastic comb binding as they deteriorate and break too fast. I bought mine at a winery in north central Arkansas and paid too much there. But I am a sucker for German home cooking.

This cookbook is equivalent to a Junior League collection of recipes from Midwest, USA. Ingredients such as margarine, hot dogs, garlic salt, dried mixed vegetables, cheddar cheese, and abundant use of bouillon cubes reflect a cook who has not progressed beyond elementary food preparation skill.
The formatting of the "self published" book is not easy to read and inconsistent. Accompanying tips, quotes and histories are out of place.
I would imagine though that the books reflects a certain kind of German cooking, just not one I'd want any part of.