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Dear Danish Recipes

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Dear Danish Recipes, in the popular recipe-card file Stocking Stuffer format, is full of the best recipes and notes about Danish foods and culture. Compiled by Michelle Nagle Spencer, a Scandinavian American with a love a gourmet cooking. Dear Danish Recipes contains recipes, facts, and cooking hints from contributors of strong Danish heritage. The cover features calligraphy and traditional red hearts by Esther Feske.

In addition to wonderful recipes, Dear Danish Recipes also includes information on Danish American culture, Sites to See, such as The Danish Immigrant Museum in Elk Horn, Iowa, and Danish Table Prayers which gives a reader a true sense of Danish heritage. This book is a must for chefs and tourists alike

The recipes are wonderful individually or to create a full Danish meal! Included are a variety of soups such as Split Pea and Danish Soup Dumplings. Served with a homemade Rye Bread, this is a hearty meal for those cold days! The Appetizers and Snacks section has wonderful suggestions for your next get-together. Try a Cheese Buffet that serves up to twelve people, or a Salmon Log. For a main entrée, Shrimp au Gratin with Sugar Browned Potatoes and a Spinach Soufflé make for a wonderful meal. Top it off with Danish Tea Cakes for dessert!

Dear Danish Recipes is excellent for personal collections and as a memento of Danish American culture.

I own a few volumes of Penfield Press cookbooks, including Dear Danish Recipes. I'm not of Danish heritage, but I'm very interested in ethnic cuisine and Penfield really gives the customer good value for so little money.

I like a little history with my cookbooks and every volume contains the history of that country's cuisine as well as information pinpointing significant settlements of that people (very interesting to know that Danish people settled Solvang, California, complete with a windmill, that mirrors Denmark. The late actress Inger Stevens took solace in the town, saying it reminded her of her childhood in Sweden).

Of all the things in this cookbook, every Christmas I challenge myself to make the Danish Christmas Bread. That bread is the singular most difficult thing I've ever baked in my life and the most labor-intensive.

This is definitely worth it as is any cookbook from Penfield. - Donna Di Giacomo