Biscuits, Pancakes, and Quick Breads: 120 Recipes to Make in No Time Flat (Hardcover)

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From Publishers Weekly

In her latest volume, Cox, winner of both the IACP Cookbook and the James Beard awards, highlights homey, bready delights traditionally served for breakfast. The premise of her book is summed up in the title of the introduction: "Old-Fashioned Comfort Foods for Modern Schedules." Each section (Biscuits, Pancakes and Quick Breads) offers recipes for many meals, including breakfast, tea, dinner and dessert. She begins with a thorough baking primer, and launches into succinct biscuit-making tips, before offering recipes such as Always-Ready Flaky Biscuit Mix. Tantalizing recipes include French Chocolate Biscuits for dessert, Skillet Chicken Cobbler for a main course, and traditional English Tea Scones for afternoon tea. In addition to a basic Everyday Pancake Mix, Cox presents recipes for crepes (Parmesan-Parsley) as well as Lacy Southern Cornmeal Cakes with Eggs and Cheddar Sauce for breakfast; for a main course, there is Mexican Masa cakes with Chevre & Red Pepper Sauce. Her quick breads are equally hearty and rich, such as Parmesan, Sage & Olive Polenta Bread, and Classic Southern Spoonbread.
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Product Description

Here are 120 scrumptious recipes that go from scratch to serving platter in minutes flat. Award-winning author Beverly Cox presents old-fashioned favorites like Cowboy Biscuits with Sausage Gravy, Blueberry Sour Cream Pancakes, and Quick Anadama Bread together with such contemporary tastes as Goat Cheese and Pepper Biscuits, and Quinoa Breakfast Bread, with each chapter yielding recipes suitable for breakfast, lunch, dinner-and even for serving at cocktail hour. Most welcomed by busy cooks will be the make-ahead mixes that the author has developed especially for this book. Stored in the freezer and ready to go, these provide all the convenience of mass-produced foods without any of the preservatives. Fresh from the oven, hot off the griddle, they satisfy the craving for home-cooked goodness-fast!

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 160 pages
• Publisher: Stewart, Tabori and Chang (May 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1584793201
• ISBN-13: 978-1584793205
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 8.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,271,876 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Gifted Writer and Chef, June 27, 2004

By	"sandiamia" (Napa, CA) - See all my reviews

Like her "Spirt of the Harvest", Beverly Cox takes this cookbook to an Alice Waters level: this isn't just a catalogue of ingredients, it's history, it's food for the soul. The recipes are wonderful and easy to follow for those of us who are subject to hectic modern day schedules, but still revere the awesome and universal power of homemade breads. No offense, Atkins followers, but I hope someday you get a clue!

4.0 out of 5 stars Biscuits, Pancakes and Quick Breads, September 22, 2009

By	Keeksi (Owensboro, KY) - See all my reviews

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I got this book out of the library and decided I needed to own a copy. Great recipes for mixes that will serve as bisquick and allow you to have homemade biscuits and pancakes quickly and easily. The author also gives you additional recipes to use the mixes for. Beautiful pictures of the recipes, which is a must for me. I think it is a great addition to my cookbook collection.