Mom's Best Desserts: 100 Classic Treats that Taste As Good Now As They Did Then [Paperback]

Fran Raboff (Author), Andrea Chesman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 23, 2002

We may love the dazzling caramel cages, gold leaf, and apricot coulis of restaurant desserts, but when we're in our own kitchens, a blueberry pie is more likely to fill the bill. For birthdays, a tall devil's food cake is still just the right thing. And during those precious weeks when fresh strawberries are available, who wants anything fancier than strawberry shortcake? Gingerbread cheers a friend home with the flu, and creamy rice pudding soothes the soul after a hard week at work.

Here are more than 100 truly great American recipes that no home baker should be without: chocolate layer cakes and blueberry pie, cherry cobbler and apple pandowdy, lemon meringue and chocolate cream pie, baked custard and Indian pudding, chocolate chip cookies and gingerbread men, butterscotch pudding and baked apple dumplings. Enhanced with delightful anecdotes and historical tidbits culled from three centuries of cookery and housekeeping books, MOM'S BEST DESSERTS is a cookbook collector's dream.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Cookbook author Chesman (The Vegetarian Grill) and culinary instructor Raboff (coauthor, Recipes from a Kitchen Garden) present traditional favorites, from Chocolate Chip Cookies to Banana Cream Pie to Apple Crisp. Although the recipes are good and the sidebars entertaining and informative, most of the information can be readily found in basic dessert cookbooks. For comprehensive baking collections.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author

Sculptor and culinary arts instructor Fran Raboff is the co-author of Recipes from a Kitchen Garden, Virtuous Desserts, and How to Beat Those Cordon Bleus.

Andrea Chesman is food writer and gardener and the author of several cookbooks, including Recipes from the Root Cellar, Serving Up the Harvest, and Pickles and Relishes. A resident of Vermont, she has been a contributing editor for Vermont Life and Edible Green Mountains.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC (October 23, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580174809
• ISBN-13: 978-1580174800
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.2 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #915,104 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Andrea Chesman is a food writer and the author of many cookbooks, including The New Vegetarian Grill (Harvard Common Press, 2008) and Serving Up the Harvest (Storey Publishing, 2007). Her book, The Vegetarian Grill (Harvard Common Press, 1998) was nominated for a James Beard Foundation Book Award and received a 1999 National Barbecue Association Award of Excellence. She is also the author of The Roasted Vegetable (Harvard Common Press, 2002) and 366 Delicious Ways to Cook Rice, Beans and Grains (Plume-Penguin, 1998), Summer in a Jar (Williamson Publishing, 1985), and Pickles and Relishes (Garden Way Publishing, 1983), Mom's Best One-Dish Suppers (Storey Publishing, 2005), Mom's Best Crowd-Pleasers (Storey Publishing, 2006) and co-author of Mom's Best Desserts (Storey Books, 2002) and The Classic Zucchini Cookbook (Storey Books, 2002). She was editor of Yankee Magazine Church Supper and Potluck Cookbook (Villard, 1996) and editor of and contributor to the Family Circle Good Cook's Book (Simon & Schuster, 1993). She has also edited numerous gardening books, including The Big Book of Gardening Skills (Storey Communications, 1993). Her work has appeared in Cooking Light, Vegetarian Times, Organic Gardening, Fine Cooking, Food & Wine, The New York Times, Natural Health, and several other magazines and newspapers. She was a contributing editor for Vermont Life for 12 years and is currently contributing editor for Edible Green Mountains.
Andrea Chesman lives in an historic farmhouse in Ripton, Vermont, where the poet Robert Frost boarded. She lives with her husband and two sons. When she is not at work on a writing project, she edits and indexes cookbooks for numerous publishers.