Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Country Classics II or The Portable Baker

Country Classics II

Author: Ginger Mitchell

A follow-up to Country Classics I, this edition continues with more delicious home-cooking recipes. These simple dishes call for ingredients you already have in the pantry. New to this edition is the Holidays section featuring Hand Dipped Chocolates and Gingerbread Place Cards. This book is written with busy people in mind.



Interesting book: Think Big or The Teenage Investor

The Portable Baker: Baking on Boat and Trail

Author: Jean Spangenberg

The Spangenbergs offer 120 recipes for yeast and quick-breaddelectables, including breads, biscuits, scones, coffee cakes, and sweet breads. Recipes include quantities for both fresh and dry ingredients, as well as substitution lists and nutritional guidelines.

Lifelong baker Jean Spangenberg is a geologist, author, teacher, and chef. With her husband, Sam, she runs Adventure Foods, which has supplied trail food to such folks as Iditarod dogsledders, Antarctic explorers, round-the-world sailboat racers, numerous summer camps, and mountaineering and river-running expeditions. The Spangenbergs live in the mountains of western North Carolina.



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