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Summary: Finally !!!
Review: Finally, a cookbook that contains the recipes for some of the foods that I grew up with. I highly recommend this book. The first recipe I tried was the mischbrot. WOW!!! It turned out exactly as I remembered the fresh and aromatic loaf of bread that I picked up from the neighborhood baker in Germany. All of the other recipes are faithfully authentic (from my point of view) even tho some do not include the necessary caraway seeds.
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Summary: Wonderfully Quaint and Usable!
Review: I bought my first book when we were stationed in Germany. Then I bought one for my mom and sister-in-law. My son got married recently and I'm going to give them their own book. Try the bee sting cake. It's great. I wish that she would do another book with different recipes. If she does I'll sure buy one.
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Summary: I love the book. I'm going to buy more for gifts.
Review: I bought my first book when we were stationed in Germany. Then I bought one for my mom and sister-in-law. My son got married recently and I'm going to give them their own book. Try the bee sting cake. It's great. I wish that she would do another book with different recipes. If she does I'll sure buy one.
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Summary: A delightful book
Review: I bought this book at Milwaukee's Germanfest several years ago, and I consider it a lucky find. The quotes and information about German holidays and customs, are just delightful! And the recipes bring back many memories of time we spent in Germany.It is worth getting the book for the brötchen recipe alone. We thought we'd never see good brötchen outside of Germany. Now we can make it at home! I especially appreciated having this book when I was preparing holiday meals for my now-late German-born father-in-law. He was very pleased as well. The recipes are easy to follow and use ingredients that are easy to find in America. The binding allows you to open the book and lay it down flat - very handy while you're cooking.
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Summary: Wonderfully Quaint and Usable!
Review: I have just read this book cover to cover (something you just never do with cookbooks!). It was easy to read and had a wonderful touch of homey-ness with its quotes, histories, and helpful hints. And that's just window dressing to the recipes themselves! I've cooked german food for years now, and having looked at the recipes in this book, I find most to be very straightforward and well-documented. Gotta go... I'm about to diving into my kitchen with book in hand. :) Thanks, Gini... great work!
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Summary: Good Content, Bad Cover
Review: The Recipes are authentic and comprehensive, thought a little bit too south-German for my liking (I'm north-German). Thus, nothing to complain about the content. But nevertheless I was upset when I got the book, especially since it meant to be a present. It's a ring-book: top and a back held together by a couple of plastic rings. This is not a hardcover, this is something every copy shop does for $1.99.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: This cookbook is equivalent to a Junior League collection of recipes from Midwest, USA. Ingredients such as margarine, hot dogs, garlic salt, dried mixed vegetables, cheddar cheese, and abundant use of bouillon cubes reflect a cook who has not progressed beyond elementary food preparation skill.
The formatting of the "self published" book is not easy to read and inconsistent. Accompanying tips, quotes and histories are out of place.
I would imagine though that the books reflects a certain kind of German cooking, just not one I'd want any part of.
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