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.
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Product Description
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.