For all cooks, this book is a true classic. It contains hundreds of interesting recipes along with hundreds of hints will make anything you prepare a success. The owner of the Toll House Restaurant in Whitman, Massachusetts, Ruth Wakefield offers here the most famous and successful tips and recipes which made her restaurant so renowned. The author begins with the necessary information all good cooks need: helpful hints (dip peeled bananas in lemon juice to prevent discoloration, how to measure solid fat); equivalents and proportions; purchasing guide; timetable for roasting, broiling, boiling, oven steaming; care of your refrigerator and range, how to save fuel; table setting and service; challenging menus; inexpensive everyday meals; success with frozen desserts; and much, much more. There is also a "primer for brides," which contains 36 essential dishes for the new homemaker (from making hot or iced coffee to main courses, desserts, even champagne punch ) Then come the mouth-watering recipes: hors d'oeuvres (cheese balls, caviar toast, stuffed mushroom caps, etc.), appetizers (fruit shrub, stuffed cantaloupe, oyster cocktail, etc.), soups, stews, and chowders (clam bisque, baked bean soup, lobster stew, clam chowder, croutons, croustades, etc.), bread (crumb bread, shredded wheat bread, Swedish tea ring, health bread, orange bread, etc.), meats and poultry (pot roast with vegetables, Neapolitan meat loaf, shepherd's pie, crown roast of pork, chicken divan, chicken terrapin, etc.), meat substitutes (goldenrod eggs, foamy omelettes, cheese croquettes, noodle ring, etc.); seafood (baked halibut, salmon and rice delight, Toll House lobster, lobster imperial, etc.), vegetables, salads and dressing, desserts, all kinds of sauces, cakes and cookies, frosting and fillings, pastries and pies, candies, tea time sandwiches, relishes, and oddments. The book concludes with sections on solving kitchen problems, how to cook for a hundred people, and a guide to purchasing, preserving, and canning jellies, jams, fruits, and vegetables.
Okay, I bought this because it has the recipe for TollHouse chocolate chip cookies written by the lady who created chocolate chip cookies(and no, it wasn't Mrs.Fields). This has a lot of old time kitchen advice my Grandmas would have given if they had given advice. That old time common sense kind of advice, especially for young brides. Look, I've been cooking for 45 years and I can still appreciate good advice. You never stop learning(if you know what's good for you) and this is also why I guess I love Paula Dean so much. She's an old country cook, too. It also compliments my heritage Betty Crocker cookbook from the 60s from which I learned to cook(my mother wasn't a cook, my one grandma lived too far away to spend time in her kitchen, and I couldn't spend ALL my time watching my other grandma cook, though I helped her a lot). I just wish I had watched my Dad make Potato Soup(he was the champian potato soup maker and I don't even think Bobby Flay would have dared issue him a throwdown, having become discouraged right off the bat thinking he had to try to out do my Dad at Potato soup would have made even Paula Dean have second thoughts(sorry, Paula Darlin', but Daddy was the Potato soup KING). Maybe that's because Dad's Grandma was Irish? You betcha!
Toll House Memories
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
Thrilled to see this book in print again. I use a worn paperback edition from the 1950's. I remember dining at the Toll House restaurant with my aunts and uncles and cousins to celebrate my grandmother's birthday, probably in the late 1950s. Along with my grandmother and Julia Child's Mastering the Art of Cooking, Ruth Wakefield's recipes taught me to love to cook. Today we can adapt them for lower fat, etc. as all good cooks do adapt recipes. Whether you make Lobster Toll House, or brown bread or mocha chiffon pie the results taste as good today as they did at the restaurant many years ago. A wonderful gift for any aspiring cook or sentimental New Englanders.
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