The Complete Autumn and Winter Cookbook: 550+ Recipes for Warming Dinners, Holiday Roasts, Seasonal Desserts, Breads, Food Gifts, and More

by America's Test Kitchen

Celebrate the season with this treasure trove of cozy cooking and baking recipes, from soul-warming soups and simple dinners to showstoppers and weekend projects.

As the air grows chillier and nights longer, these dishes draw us to the table and the warmth of an active kitchen: Slow-simmered dishes like Cider-Braised Pork Roast, cheesy weeknight pasta like Unstuffed Shells with Butternut Squash, or a crusty bread like Fig and Fennel Bread.

When the flavors of summer fade, autumn and winter fruits and vegetables can be just as bold and bountiful. Find recipe inspiration from the season's first ripe figs and plump brussels sprouts to roasty sides featuring celery root, kohlrabi, and kabocha squash, or a cranberry curd tart to brighten a winter's night.

Themed chapters showcase all the reasons to love autumn and winter cooking:

• Find new celebration favorites with a chapter of centerpiece dishes like Turkey and Gravy for a Crowd or Swiss Chard Pie to wow your guests.
• Picked apples on an autumnal adventure? All Things Apple covers both sweet and savory recipes like French Apple Cake and Celery Root, Fennel, and Apple Chowder to help you use them up.
• Create the ultimate party spread with chapters devoted to Appetizers, Festive Drinks, and Brunch: Try fried Korean fried chicken wings, latkes with beet-horseradish applesauce, or Everything Straws.
• Obsessed with pumpkin? So are we! In the Everyone Loves Pumpkin chapter you'll find everything from Creamy Pumpkin-Chai Soup to Rum Pumpkin Chiffon Pie.
• Bake to your heart's content with chapters covering breads, cookies, cakes, pies, puddings, and more.
• Give the gift of food with recipes for Rocky Road Bark and Fruits of the Forest Liqueur.

America's Test Kitchen's tips and tricks guarantee every meal is a success. Flip to the introduction for menus and entertaining tips. Plus, we've added seasonally themed spreads throughout so you can decorate the perfect holiday cookies or plan a charcuterie board with last-second appetizers.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction, Food, Autumn, Culinary, Holiday

432 pages, Paperback

Published September 21, 2021

About the author

America's Test Kitchen, based in a brand new state-of-the-art 60,000 sq. ft. facility with over 15,000 sq. ft. of test kitchens and studio space, in Boston's Seaport District, is dedicated to finding the very best recipes for home cooks. Over 50 full-time (admittedly obsessive) test cooks spend their days testing recipes 30, 40, up to 100 times, tweaking every variable until they understand how and why recipes work. They also test cookware and supermarket ingredients so viewers can bypass marketing hype and buy the best quality products. As the home of Cook's Illustrated and Cook's Country magazines, and publisher of more than one dozen cookbooks each year, America's Test Kitchen has earned the respect of the publishing industry, the culinary world, and millions of home cooks. America's Test Kitchen the television show launched in 2001, and the company added a second television program, Cook's Country, in 2008.

Discover, learn, and expand your cooking repertoire with Julia Collin Davison, Bridget Lancaster, Jack Bishop, Dan Souza, Lisa McManus, Tucker Shaw, Bryan Roof, and our fabulous team of test cooks!

Learn more at https://www.americastestkitchen.com/.

Reviews

[Amos]

I AM IN LOOOOOOOOVE!!!!!

[Furrawn]

There are multiple recipes that are, each one, worth the price of admission. My only complaint is that there was not a hardcover version available. I had to buy a paperback cookbook which will not hold up well to use over the years.

Edit: I’ve now read this cookbook TWICE. There are a lot of yummy recipes that I think I can adapt to my current low carb diet. Excited to try.

[Jessica]

This is a really thorough cookbook that focuses on the fall and winter seasons. In the introduction there is a nice overview of that time of year, how to prep for holidays/parties, what produce is in season, etc. They also include some sample menus and suggested tools/equipment. The recipes are organized by type - soups/stews/chili, sides, breads, etc. but I also liked that there were a few chapters on specific produce items like pumpkin and apples that are best in the fall/winter. I also loved that the last chapter was on food gifts. Overall, I was really impressed with this cookbook. The only (small) downside for me was many of the recipes had a LOT of ingredients or steps, so it's not necessarily a beginner's cookbook. But, there were lots of recipes I'd like to try from this one. And it was perfect timing when I got it from the library since we're in the winter months now.

[Andrea]

So many good ideas!

[Miss Clark]

4.5 stars

Fantastic collection of recipes for the cold, brisk months of the year! It has desserts and breakfasts and cakes and soups and tarts and pasta and even has liqueurs and making your own extracts!

Rustic Turkey tart
Thanksgiving Quinoa Bowl
Roast Chicken with Cranberry-Walnut Stuffing
Porchetta
Glazed Spiral-Sliced Ham 121
Simple Cheese Lasagna 125
Our Favorite Turkey Gravy
Citrus and Radicchio Salad with Dates and Smoked Almond
Braised Savoy Cabbage with Pancetta 145
Slow-Cooker Lemon-Herb Fingerling Potatoes
Sweet Potato Fritters with Cheddar, Chipotles and Cilantro
Mexican Red Rice
Classic Sausage-Herb Cornbread Dressing
Make-Ahead Creamy Macaroni and Cheese
Cannellini Beans with Roasted Red Peppers and Kale
Caraway-Crusted Pork Tenderloin with Sauerkraut and Apples
Cider-Braised Pork Roast with Apples 193
Apple Cider Doughnuts 195
Skillet Apple Crisp
(Okay, really ALL the apple recipes)
French Apple Cake*
Cider-Glazed Apple Bundt Cake
Salted Caramel Apple Pie 207
Applesauce
Pumpkin Cheesecake 225
Pumpkin Streusel Bars 226
Herbed Spinach Dip 231
Buffalo Chicken Dip 232
Cheddar Cheese Log with Everything Bagel Blend 233
Baked Jalapeno Poppers
Holiday Punch 271
Eggnog 273
Home Fries
Classic Buttermilk Pancakes 290 + Syrups 291
Yeasted Waffles
Blueberry Swirl Muffins with Frozen Blueberries 294
Eggnog Snickerdoodles 334
Molasses Spice Cake
Rugelach with Raisin-Walnut Filling
Ultranutty Pecan Bars 347
Pear-Cherry Streusel Bars
Slow-Cooker Flourless Chocolate Cake
Cranberry-Orange Olive Oil Cake
Caramel-Espresso Yule Log
Maple Cheesecake
Pecan Pie
Holiday Eggnog Custard Pue 367
Orange-Chocolate Custard Pie
Cranberry Curd Tart with Almond Crust
Chocolate Soufflé
Spiced Pecans with Rum Glaze 392
Bourbon Balls 398
White Chocolate-Coconut Candies
Vanilla Extract 405
Limoncello 406
Fruits of the Forest Liqueur

[Md Reza]

★★★★★

The Complete Autumn and Winter Cookbook is a fantastic collection for anyone who loves cozy, comforting seasonal food. With such a wide variety of recipes, it offers plenty of inspiration for everything from warming weeknight dinners and hearty roasts to festive desserts, homemade breads, and thoughtful food gifts.

I really enjoyed how well the recipes capture the flavors and spirit of the colder months. The dishes feel satisfying and inviting without being overly complicated, making this a practical cookbook for everyday cooking as well as holiday entertaining. There is an excellent balance between familiar comfort foods and recipes that encourage you to try something new.

The variety is easily one of the book’s greatest strengths. It is the kind of cookbook you can keep coming back to throughout the season and still find plenty of dishes worth making.

A wonderfully comprehensive and inspiring cookbook that belongs in the kitchen of anyone who enjoys autumn and winter cooking. Five stars!

[Klarissa Kronschnabel]

A great read to help fight the winter doldrums and help remind me of the charms of the season (namely being able to use the oven and warm our 100 year old house by 5 degrees). Have made the chili, steak salad, and parm-crusted pork chops so far and all were yum. Some of the instructions and ingredient lists in here are a little fussy, but blatantly ignoring those recommendations in favor of doing whatever the hell I want is as grounding as a warm bowl of soup >:p

[Chuqin Anderson]

I don’t usually read cookbooks, but this one is very helpful. I love the focus on in-season produce, and the little tips here and there for homemade stock and sauce, etc. It contains a wide selection of recipes, though not all of them seem appetizing (I can be snobbish when it comes to food).

[Laura]

would love to cook through this book. lots of different recipes some simple some more fancy. loved that this fall and winter book had one whole section on apples and one on pumpkins. I love cookbooks that have sections based on ingredients - especially seasonal ones.

[E.]

They never disappoint! Milk braised pork loin was amazing!!

[Ellenh]

Another excellent cookbook from America's Test Kitchen. The stuffing recipes alone were worth it! I got it from the library, but may have to purchase it as I'm having a hard time returning it..

[Melinda Keen]

There was alot of good recipes.

[Laurie]

Recipe to try from this book:
- mushroom Ragu
- eggplant Parmesan
- pan-roasted pear salad with watercress, Parmesan, and pecans
- rustic bread stuffing with cranberries and walnuts
- pumpkin cappellacci
- za’atar bread

[Jeanette Durkin]

Perfect recipes for those chilly months! I look forward to trying a lot of them!

[Quinn]

Loved the pictures! A ton of fantastic looking recipes. Some I’ll try others I know I won’t like the seasonings. There are dessert, bread and even cocktail recipes. Very expansive collection.

[Meredith]

I typically enjoy the recipes from America's Test Kitchen books, and the autumn and winter meals are usually my favourite foods. Yum!

[Ben]

Many interesting recipes; several to try soon!

[Erin]

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[Jackie]

Wide variety of interesting things to try

[Tracy]

Everything I've made from this book has been fantastic. I plan on purchasing a used copy for my own library.

[MJ]

I didn't think it would happen, but I'm ready for cooler weather meals now

[Stefanie]

All of it.
Thank you library for confirming this will be $$ well spent.

[Louise Ennesser]

This book contains lots of tips on how to do things as well as why the recipes work.

[Judith Davis]

The weeknight family dinner section felt more like a menu at a White House dinner, than a REAL family. One day I would love to see a real cooks menu in a cookbook. I guess we’re not there yet.

[Charles]

Don't bother.

[Caroline Berg]

There's a ridiculous amount of recipes in this cookbook, but don't be overwhelmed, if you're vegetarian you can skip vast portions of the book, and honestly, getting more specialized cookbooks for exactly what you're looking for (like say, a cookbook specifically for seasonal breads, or holiday cookies) would probably be a better use of your time. That said, the sections on mixed drinks and syrups is impressive.

[Dray]

Although the concept is a little artificial, this book contains a lot of great recipes from the warehouse archive of recipes that is America's Test Kitchen. Perhaps not their best cookbook but not their worst either. Well organized and as always, i appreciate the "this recipe works because..." intros. Worthwhile.

[Meagan | The Chapter House]

Basically the mother lode of autumn/winter cooking right here! All The Recipes (truly, I mean, clocking in at 550 plus--that's hard to beat!) for my favorite season (autumn) and my favorite food seasons (autumn and winter).