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~ Moosewood Collective (Author) "AS MUCH AS WE MAY VALUE HANDSOME VEGETABLES AND RELIABLE grains, fruits are the colorful crown jewels of the food world..." (more)
Key Phrases: ovenproof custard cups, ricotta mousse, unoiled baking sheet, Filled Cakes, Filo Pastries, Grand Marnier (more...)
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The Moosewood Restaurant Book of Desserts has the homey but not hokey style you expect from this much-loved restaurant. It is refreshing to enjoy the authors' unvarnished pleasure in food and in sharing about life at the Moosewood as it relates to their desserts. It may be startling to find that the first dessert in this appealing book is nature's best dessert: fresh fruit served with cheese. But these cooks also put butter and eggs to good use, adding enough to make desserts that appeal in their richness. You'll find abundant choices of recipes for every kind of dessert: pies and cakes, puddings, custards, cookies, even special drinks. Chocolate lovers may feel a bit ignored, but fruit, pudding, and cake lovers will be pleased by the 250 recipes in this book.


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One of the Moosewood pastry chefs coauthored her own low-fat dessert book last year (Kip Wilcox's Sweetness and Light, LJ 8/96); now here are more than 250 desserts from the whole cooperative. The well-known restaurant in Ithaca, New York, has always specialized in homey desserts like Cherry Almond Crumble and Old-Fashioned Apple Cake; there are also some more elaborate creations for special occasions as well as recipes inspired by the different international cuisines served at the restaurant each Sunday and a chapter of "classics" that have remained favorites over the years. For most collections.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Three Rivers Press (October 28, 1997)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0517884933
  • ISBN-13: 978-0517884935
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.3 x 1.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #45,652 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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AS MUCH AS WE MAY VALUE HANDSOME VEGETABLES AND RELIABLE grains, fruits are the colorful crown jewels of the food world. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ovenproof custard cups, ricotta mousse, unoiled baking sheet, white pastry flour, teaspoon freshly grated lemon peel, sweet pastry crust, chilling time, butter the baking pan, dessert cups, brown sugar until light, angelfood cake, baking time, freshly grated orange peel, teaspoon pure vanilla extract, prebaked pie shell, heavy nonreactive saucepan, guava paste, flavored whipped creams, dust with confectioners, cup unbleached white flour, fresh whipped cream, cup whole almonds, bundt pan, heat diffuser, unsulphured molasses
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Filled Cakes, Filo Pastries, Grand Marnier, Moosewood Classics, Fresh Mango Sauce, United States, Cherry Sauce, Fra Angelico, Poundcake Loaf, Summer Berry Sauce, Their Cousins, Chocolate Ricotta Mousse, Easy Fruit Desserts, Fluffy Sweet Biscuits, Bittersweet Chocolate Sauce, Rum Custard Sauce, Cornmeal Cookies, Italian Sesame Cookies, Low-fat Creamy Toppings, Pear Sorbet, Savannah Banana Pudding, Candied Citrus Zest, Chocolate Ganache, Chocolate Vegan Glaze, Flan de Piña
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Not a "healthy dessert" cookbook! This is the real thing!, April 20, 2001
By scducharme (Concord, MA USA) - See all my reviews
I love a cookbook that is more than just a collection of recipes. The recipes in this cookbook all start with some background about where the recipe came from, how it can be used, and other ideas for how to serve it. This makes the book fun to browse through. Also, the book is well-organized and well indexed. There's even an ingredients index so you can look in your pantry and pick a dessert based on what you have on hand. The variety of recipes is good: some are easy, some are more complicated, some are good for kids, some are fancy for adults. I've tried several things from each chapter of the book and everything has turned out well. Basics are included, such as a flawless pie crust recipe, as well as more unusual desserts such as Pink Chiffon Cake. Another bonus is the multicultural aspect of the book. There are several recipes from the Middle East, and some from Italy, Greece, too. These Mediterranean desserts tend to be less sweet than what our US taste buds usually like, and I've found them great for informal suppers and luncheons. (By the way, the name "Moosewood" in this cookbook does not mean "healthy"! There's plenty of sugar and other good stuff in these recipes!) I make desserts only when entertaining, so I usually have to take the risk of trying new recipes with guests, but with this cookbook I never have any worry about whether it will be a hit or not. This book has proven itself to be a Dessert Bible for me!
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great dessert cookbook without the pretentions, February 22, 2000
By "sbgantz" (Alexandria, Virginia USA) - See all my reviews
I have several dessert cookbooks, all with great recipes, most costing considerably more than this one. In spite of that, when I am looking for a recipe, this is the cookbook that usually comes through for me. I have made cakes, muffins, coffee cakes, cookies, pies, and other assorted sweets, all with rave reviews. The recipes are tailored for the home cook, so they are easy to prepare, but amazingly there is no loss of quality. You can get fancy if you want (the chocolate cake with chocolate ganache is quite impressive) but most of the recipes are quite simple. No great color photos, but the price more than makes up for that.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Great book, I use it often, December 19, 2001
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This is another fine Moosewood publication. It offers unique and varied dessert selections. The recipes are generally well-tested, though a few had a decidedly flat taste that I didn't prefer, such as the chocolate bread pudding and the apple cake. One recipe failed outright, in my opinion (the everyday rice pudding--it was WAY starchy). My step-daughter really loved the bread pudding and apple cake, though, so maybe it's actually a strength of the book, that there's something to suit everyone's taste in it. Most of the recipes have been outstanding, however, and so I would recommend this book totally. The Indian peach dessert is sensational, for instance. The soft, sweet peaches and the crumbly cornmeal topping is a heavenly pairing.

I like the look and feel of the book. It's soothing to work with--it's not glossy and pretentious, it's not merely designed to impress. I reach for this book often, and it has come through for me time and again.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderfully decadent and homey desserts!
I ordered a copy of this after recently perusing a friend's copy and I am so happy that I did! I'm a little picky with cookbooks and I normally tend to fawn over those with super... Read more
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