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2.0 out of 5 stars
Reprint of earlier book but NOT so marked!, Oct 16 2001
By A Customer
This review is from: Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking: A Mennonite Community Cookbook (Hardcover)
This book is a reprint of the authors' _Mennonite Community Cookbook_ ... Every single page is identical, word for word (just a different cover, title, and typeface) - which to me constitutes gross misrepresentation since I couldn't find that mentioned anywhere in the book, and I obviously wouldn't knowingly have ordered a duplicate copy. However, if you don't have the earlier book, you will love it. (The reason I ordered it was because I like the original book so much, and was therefore eager to see a seemingly new title attributed to them.) It is a compilation of recipes culled from Mennonites. Since the original book was written in 1950, the directions are nowhere near as explicit as they would be today -- and there are very few "warm, fuzzy" notes prefacing recipes, so you can't tell if something was included because it is quick and easy, cheap, uses readily available ingreadients (which may be expensive today and hard for you to locate) or because it is incredibly delicious. But the gems in the collection make it well worth owning, and I love the book. My one and only complaint is that this edition is not marked as a reprint of the original. Once again, if you don't already own the original, this one is lovely.
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Good Cooking!, Oct 21 2000
By A Customer
This review is from: Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking: A Mennonite Community Cookbook (Hardcover)
Our house burned down in June of this year, taking all my cookbooks with it. This was the first one I replaced and am ordering two more to give as Christmas presents. It is excellent!
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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Reprint of earlier book but NOT so marked!, Oct 16 2001
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking: A Mennonite Community Cookbook (Hardcover)
This book is a reprint of the authors' _Mennonite Community Cookbook_ ... Every single page is identical, word for word (just a different cover, title, and typeface) - which to me constitutes gross misrepresentation since I couldn't find that mentioned anywhere in the book, and I obviously wouldn't knowingly have ordered a duplicate copy. However, if you don't have the earlier book, you will love it. (The reason I ordered it was because I like the original book so much, and was therefore eager to see a seemingly new title attributed to them.) It is a compilation of recipes culled from Mennonites. Since the original book was written in 1950, the directions are nowhere near as explicit as they would be today -- and there are very few "warm, fuzzy" notes prefacing recipes, so you can't tell if something was included because it is quick and easy, cheap, uses readily available ingreadients (which may be expensive today and hard for you to locate) or because it is incredibly delicious. But the gems in the collection make it well worth owning, and I love the book. My one and only complaint is that this edition is not marked as a reprint of the original. Once again, if you don't already own the original, this one is lovely.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good Cooking!, Oct 21 2000
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking: A Mennonite Community Cookbook (Hardcover)
Our house burned down in June of this year, taking all my cookbooks with it. This was the first one I replaced and am ordering two more to give as Christmas presents. It is excellent!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Wonderful, nostalgic cookbook, Sep 20 2005
By S. Sutcliff - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking: A Mennonite Community Cookbook (Hardcover)
This is a wonderful cookbook. It made me very nostolgic for my grandmother's upstate NY kitchen. I agree with the earlier reviewer that the recipes are nowhere as specific as those in more modern cookbooks. However that's not a detraction to me: they look just like the ones on my grandmother's recipe cards! There are indeed real gems in this collection and overall it's a good read.
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