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Gourmet's Old Vienna Cookbook a Viennese Memoir

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This is an excellent book even though the recipes are done in such as way that already knowing how to cook will be helpful. There are a lot of recipes in this book. The book is lacking a bit in supplemental information. There are also very few pictures. Overall, given that there are not many good Austrian cook books around, this is a good one to have. It is very complete and has the names of the dishes in German. That is important, I think.

This cookbook has recipes that my family has used for years. My mom's uses her copy often especially around the holidays! the punch recipe and the German Red Cabbage are big favorites.

This cookbook is great. Along with traditional viennese recipies it also includes storys and brief descriptions of holidays. Well worth the money.

This is a rarity in terms of Austro-Hungarian cookery as it has a plethora of elegant, savoury recipes as well as an encyclopaedic chapter (actually huge) on Viennese tortes and other baked goods. If you want to master Viennese baking, my choices would be (in this order):

THE ART OF VIENNESE COOKING by Marcia Colman Morton

Gourmet's Old Vienna Cookbook: A Viennese Memoir by Lillian Langseth-Christensen

Kaffeehaus: Exquisite Desserts from the Classic Cafés of Vienna, Budapest, and Prague by Rick Rodgers

Viennese Cooking by Olga Hess

They are all priceless, and very worthwhile. If you must limit yourself to one, I reluctantly would recommend the Morton book over the others because it is the most 'foolproof', but if you know how to bake you should be comfortable using any of these.