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"A" Is for Apple: More Than 200 Recipes for Eating, Munching and Cooking with America's Favorite Fruit
A tart-sweet, sun-crisped apple plucked from a hundred-year-old tree and eaten out of hand. A mug of hot curried apple soup enjoyed as an autumn lunch. Cider-braised duck legs with onions and cabbage. Warm deep-dish apple pie topped with a melting scoop of apple-cinnamon ice cream.
Everyone has tasted Golden Delicious and Granny Smith apples, but how about Esopus Spitzenbergs or Sweet Sixteens? With more apple varieties available than ever before, how do you choose the right apple for eating, cooking, and baking? In A Is for Apple you'll discover the many pleasures of America's favorite fruit. Filled with helpful hints on how to grow, select, and cook a wide variety of apples, this bountiful collection presents more than 200 recipes for everything from soups, salads, and salsas to crisps, cobblers, and cheesecakes.
Everyone has tasted Golden Delicious and Granny Smith apples, but how about Esopus Spitzenbergs or Sweet Sixteens? With more apple varieties available than ever before, how do you choose the right apple for eating, cooking, and baking? In A Is for Apple you'll discover the many pleasures of America's favorite fruit. Filled with helpful hints on how to grow, select, and cook a wide variety of apples, this bountiful collection presents more than 200 recipes for everything from soups, salads, and salsas to crisps, cobblers, and cheesecakes.
288 pages, Paperback
First published June 15, 1999
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May 3, 2022
Review originally published September 2004
The last day of summer 2004 is now a thing of the past. It’s starting to get dark earlier in the evening, the kids are back in school, and everyone’s thoughts are turning to fall. Football games, the glorious colors of the leaves before they fall off, and crisp temperatures are some of the things we have to look forward to. We probably won’t prepare as many cold salads or grill outside for meals as much, and start thinking of fall fruits and vegetables that we can make.
In our area, we’re lucky to have several good apple orchards and maybe you’re planning to go buy a bushel of your favorite variety this fall. La Crosse County Library in West Salem has a book called A is For Apple that has more than 200 kitchen-tested recipes for cooking with America’s favorite fruit. (Actually apples are the second most popular fruit after bananas, but apples are so much more versatile.)
The beginning of the book talks about apple basics: the different varieties of apples (the United States is one of the world’s largest growers and shippers of apples) and how to chose the right apple for eating, juice, sauces, cutting, and drying.
The biggest portion of A is For Apple is full of recipes divided into several categories including desserts, salads, poultry, side dishes, and many others. You’ll find simple applesauce and pie as well as interesting dishes like "Apple Caramel Swirl Cheesecake," "Applesauce Meatloaf," and "Turkey Apple Burgers." For the really adventuresome, there are recipes for "Apple, Beer and Green Chili Relish"; "Apple Venison Sausage"; and "Curried Apple Soup".
At the end of the book, the authors, Greg and Dorothy Patent, discuss how anyone can grow their own apples. Even if you live in an apartment with only a balcony, thanks to modern science, nurseries offer tiny trees that grow in a pot and produce fruit. If you are lucky enough to have a yard, you have many more options for planting. Harvesting and apple diseases are discussed briefly, too.
There are many other books about apples at our other La Crosse County Library branches. Come in and check them out and enjoy the fall in our beautiful Coulee Region!
Find similar titles within our catalog.
The last day of summer 2004 is now a thing of the past. It’s starting to get dark earlier in the evening, the kids are back in school, and everyone’s thoughts are turning to fall. Football games, the glorious colors of the leaves before they fall off, and crisp temperatures are some of the things we have to look forward to. We probably won’t prepare as many cold salads or grill outside for meals as much, and start thinking of fall fruits and vegetables that we can make.
In our area, we’re lucky to have several good apple orchards and maybe you’re planning to go buy a bushel of your favorite variety this fall. La Crosse County Library in West Salem has a book called A is For Apple that has more than 200 kitchen-tested recipes for cooking with America’s favorite fruit. (Actually apples are the second most popular fruit after bananas, but apples are so much more versatile.)
The beginning of the book talks about apple basics: the different varieties of apples (the United States is one of the world’s largest growers and shippers of apples) and how to chose the right apple for eating, juice, sauces, cutting, and drying.
The biggest portion of A is For Apple is full of recipes divided into several categories including desserts, salads, poultry, side dishes, and many others. You’ll find simple applesauce and pie as well as interesting dishes like "Apple Caramel Swirl Cheesecake," "Applesauce Meatloaf," and "Turkey Apple Burgers." For the really adventuresome, there are recipes for "Apple, Beer and Green Chili Relish"; "Apple Venison Sausage"; and "Curried Apple Soup".
At the end of the book, the authors, Greg and Dorothy Patent, discuss how anyone can grow their own apples. Even if you live in an apartment with only a balcony, thanks to modern science, nurseries offer tiny trees that grow in a pot and produce fruit. If you are lucky enough to have a yard, you have many more options for planting. Harvesting and apple diseases are discussed briefly, too.
There are many other books about apples at our other La Crosse County Library branches. Come in and check them out and enjoy the fall in our beautiful Coulee Region!
Find similar titles within our catalog.
March 25, 2020
Not a "how-to" book . The author assumes the reader has some rudimentary knowledge of cooking and baking .
I made the Cran-Apple crisp on page 62 using pink lady apples and dried cranberries instead of the suggested fresh . It made a yummy Saint Valentine's Day treat . The many clever apple anecdotes are a nice bonus for apple lovers , with the brief account of William Tell and the famous apple (p184) being my favorite .
I made the Cran-Apple crisp on page 62 using pink lady apples and dried cranberries instead of the suggested fresh . It made a yummy Saint Valentine's Day treat . The many clever apple anecdotes are a nice bonus for apple lovers , with the brief account of William Tell and the famous apple (p184) being my favorite .
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