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Summary: More than forty pickled egg recipes
Review: Ultra-Violet's Pickled Egg Cookbook is a delightful, tongue-in-cheek collection of more than forty pickled egg recipes accompanied with humorous anecdotes from long-time Missouri resident and author Violet Clayton. Here is a compendium of recipes for pickled egg enthusiasts enhanced with interesting facts about eggs, suggestions for fund raising and gift giving, as well as tidbits of information about the State of Missouri. From Shoot The Moon; Blue Moon Tavern Eggs; and Eta Sprugen's Eggs; to Red Wine Vinegar Eggs; Aunt Belle's Pickled Eggs; and Dee Reeser's Gotcha Eggs, this handy, 86-page, spiral bound compendium will be an instant favorite for all pickled egg connoisseurs!
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Summary: Peter Piper Never Picked a Peck of These Pickled Eggs!
Review: Ultra-Violet's Pickled Egg Cookbook. Just another cookbook? Ha! At first glance this book reveals itself to be both shocking and practical. Shocking in that one does not expect to see a purple chicken in apron and high heels -- the nature of which is revealed once you get into the book -- and practical because it has stain resistant glossy covers and is spiral bound, thus allowing it to lay flat, making it ideal for the kitchen. Open the covers and you will find a cookbook like no other. The topic, pickled eggs, is perhaps a little unusual. I had no idea there were so many ways to pickle eggs. The recipes are excellent and they are guaranteed to change your taste for pickled eggs, but it is the presentation which is absolutely delightful. It makes this book worth having if you never pickle a single egg. The anecdotes, historical references and trivia, and the wonderful style in which their story is told that makes this book a winner. You won't be able to keep a smile off your face, perhaps not a tear from your eye and certainly not a giggle from invading your heart, as you read this one.
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Summary: Ultra Violet was related to the Lilliputians!
Review: Wherever do these wacky, useful cookbooks come from? Ultra-Violet is an amazing character and both the recipes and stories provide entertainment just reading them. My favorite story is The Funeral. We need more people like Ultra-Violet who delivers the truth in fast curve ball style. Forgive the cliches but they were created for her. She sounds like one mean mama and one you won't want to cross. Her antics prove her ancestors were the Lilliputians who believed trivial crimes deserved severe punishments. Ultra-Violet solved an ongoing debate between my husband and me: how to boil and peel an egg correctly. The answer is on page 2. Now we have this entertaining cookbook for pickled eggs - never had any pickled eggs, may not ever pickle any, but getting to know Ultra-Violet is reason enough to have this book.
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