Phyllis Pellman Good, Louise Stoltzfus
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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 3
Average rating: 4.0 of 5
A great cookbook for food from Lancaster 5 out of 5 stars.
16 of 16 people found this review helpful.
As a native of Lancaster all of my life, a shopper of Central Market, and a person who loves to cook, I highly recommend this cookbook. It has some great facts about the start of Central Market and TONS of wonderful recipes for local food. Scrapple, REAL pot pie, dips, caseroles, pasta dishes, cakes, and pies are all in this book. My copy is very dog eared, because there are so many great things to make! Buy this book if you like to cook great food!
A MUST HAVE COOKBOOK 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 4 people found this review helpful.
Every cook, young and old, must have this cookbook readily available in their kitchen. It is a perfect reference to all fo the basic and best recipes!
expecting more down home cooking... 2 out of 5 stars.
0 of 0 people found this review helpful.
I found this book while searching for a good Amish inspired cookbook. Unfortunately, this was not one of them. While I realized that the book was lacking in pictures of finished dishes and seemed a bit dated, I was surprised at the wide array of dishes and had been hoping to find something more Old Country. The recipes are so broad from taco dip, pizza dip to "garlic gilroy" (Gilroy, which is the garlic capital in California) to Thai Chicken and vegetables.
There are surely good recipes in here, and there are the traditional Scrapple, Whoopie pies, and Chicken pot pie, but they are tucked in with recipes for dishes like Tuna Nicoise and Chicken a'la King. I commend the author's attempt to present a cohesive collection of dishes that represent such a large and diverse market. I guess I was expecting something different based on the location of the Central Market and the olden look of the cookbook's cover.
Maybe I was expecting something more "whole food" and was disappointed when canned soup was called for in a handful of potentially good recipes. I would have been thrilled if the author made use of the local dairies, using fresher ingredients instead.
Some recipes are just overly simplistic which detract from other recipes that possibly have more depth, character and tradition.
Pennsylvania Dutch Appetizer Logs consist of a jar of prepared horseradish mixed with cream cheese and rolled into slices of Lebanon balogna. Or Fresh Asparagus Wrapped with Prosciutto or Westphalian Ham. If you havent guess, the "recipe" merely instructs you to wrap blanched asparagus into prosciutto or... Westphalian Ham.
Editorial Review:
Favorite recipes from the standholders of the nation's oldest farmer's market, Central Market in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, comprise this collection of 300 dishes. Exquisite photos of the market appear throughout.
