Review: Fall Baking
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recipecommunityTaste of Home Fall Baking: 275+ Breads, Pies, Cookies and More!
Paperback – September 13, 2022
by Taste of Home (Editor)
We finished reading this cookbook today. It's the inspiring kind that makes me want to hole up in the kitchen and bake until the whole house smells like fall. It uses a lot of autumn ingredients such as apples, pears, sweet potatoes, and warming spices. The recipes range from simple to elaborate. In addition to the classics there are some with twists and others that are more unusual. We found this cookbook at Ollie's, so if you have that store in your locale, look for it there.
Front matter includes the Table of Contents, Introduction, and Favorite Fall Ingredients (Fall Spices, Pumpkin, Chocolate, Nuts, Eggs, Buttermilk, and Apples). Back matter has the Index which is just recipe titles, but also Fall Flavors listing some of the key seasonal ingredients. The chapter titles are All-Time Fall Favorites, Classic Yeast Breads, Quick Breads, Cookies Brownies and Bars, Pies & Tarts, Cakes & Cupcakes, Pastries & Bakeshop Sweets, Autumn's Best Deserts, and Bonus: Potpies & Other Cozy Dinners. Among the recipes we marked are Buttermilk Cake with Cider Icing, Rosemary-Walnut Bread, Honey Oatmeal Loaves, Apple Dumpling Pull Apart Bread, Almond Flour Bread, Lemon Thyme Tea Bread, Sweet Potato Biscuits, Carrot Spice Thumbprint Cookies, Filbertines, Shoofly Chocolate Pie, Butterscotch Pie, Tahitian Breakfast Treats, and Caramel Pear Pudding.
Some of these recipes are simple, others more complex. Many use fresh whole ingredients that you could find at a farmer's market or food co-op. There are a lot of recipes with wholegrain or multigrain flours, which is nice. Those tend to have a nutty taste that goes well with other fall flavors. However, beware of the "maple" items -- many use maple flavoring instead of real maple syrup or maple sugar. I'm with Vermont: Life is too short for fake maple anything. Also watch out for the low-fat and fat-free ingredients, which are either more processed or full of garbage; in most places you can probably substitute normal ingredients.
This cookbook is an excellent choice for anyone who wants to branch out into baking or seasonal cuisine. It also has enough uncommon ideas to make it well worthwhile even if you already have a good collection of cookbooks. Highly recommended.
Paperback – September 13, 2022
by Taste of Home (Editor)
We finished reading this cookbook today. It's the inspiring kind that makes me want to hole up in the kitchen and bake until the whole house smells like fall. It uses a lot of autumn ingredients such as apples, pears, sweet potatoes, and warming spices. The recipes range from simple to elaborate. In addition to the classics there are some with twists and others that are more unusual. We found this cookbook at Ollie's, so if you have that store in your locale, look for it there.
Front matter includes the Table of Contents, Introduction, and Favorite Fall Ingredients (Fall Spices, Pumpkin, Chocolate, Nuts, Eggs, Buttermilk, and Apples). Back matter has the Index which is just recipe titles, but also Fall Flavors listing some of the key seasonal ingredients. The chapter titles are All-Time Fall Favorites, Classic Yeast Breads, Quick Breads, Cookies Brownies and Bars, Pies & Tarts, Cakes & Cupcakes, Pastries & Bakeshop Sweets, Autumn's Best Deserts, and Bonus: Potpies & Other Cozy Dinners. Among the recipes we marked are Buttermilk Cake with Cider Icing, Rosemary-Walnut Bread, Honey Oatmeal Loaves, Apple Dumpling Pull Apart Bread, Almond Flour Bread, Lemon Thyme Tea Bread, Sweet Potato Biscuits, Carrot Spice Thumbprint Cookies, Filbertines, Shoofly Chocolate Pie, Butterscotch Pie, Tahitian Breakfast Treats, and Caramel Pear Pudding.
Some of these recipes are simple, others more complex. Many use fresh whole ingredients that you could find at a farmer's market or food co-op. There are a lot of recipes with wholegrain or multigrain flours, which is nice. Those tend to have a nutty taste that goes well with other fall flavors. However, beware of the "maple" items -- many use maple flavoring instead of real maple syrup or maple sugar. I'm with Vermont: Life is too short for fake maple anything. Also watch out for the low-fat and fat-free ingredients, which are either more processed or full of garbage; in most places you can probably substitute normal ingredients.
This cookbook is an excellent choice for anyone who wants to branch out into baking or seasonal cuisine. It also has enough uncommon ideas to make it well worthwhile even if you already have a good collection of cookbooks. Highly recommended.
