Peckish Sister's Reviews
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Supper Club: Chez Martha Rose
By Martha Rose Shulman
Atheneum - 1988
Alsatian Apple Cake : page 192
This was dreadful. I was glad that I was a little short on apples or the small amount of batter would have been completely eclipsed by the apples. I should have benefitted from Zosia’s experience with the plum tart and cut the apples into 16ths instead of eights. Even when cooking until some of the tops were black, some of the apples pieces were still very hard. The overwhelming taste of baking soda coated the apples. The next time I would mix all dry ingredients together before adding them to the apples. The glaze gave it a very lovely look, but the small amount of actual cake tasted very greasy.
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Christine’s Creamy Cucumber Salad : page 242
Indeed this is the creamiest cucumber salad. I put the cottage cheese and goat cheese in the food processor, instead of crushing the cottage cheese curds with a wooden spoon. This makes a large volume of salad particularly if you use 3 regular cucumbers. If use the one "English cucumber" I would think the volume of creamy cheese would be too much. My son did not like it probably because of the noticeable goat cheese flavor. My husband and I liked it but missed the usual addition of scallion and fresh dill. On the other hand, it would be nice to by have a cucumber salad you could make if you don’t have access to fresh dill.
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Cumin and Cornmeal Bread : page 28
Cumin and Cornmeal Bread
P 28 ***
This is a very dense yeast bread made only with cornmeal and whole wheat flour and a whole lot of cumin seed. I really liked it and enjoyed it toasted but although the bread itself was not dry, eating it was a dry experience. It would be great with some of her soup recipes where you throw the bread in the bowl of broth. I made the mistake of throwing this into the bread machine on the whole wheat cycle, and the bread did not seem synchronized to its cycles. I did not get the rich buttery taste she suggested that the bread had. I would definitely make this by hand the next time.
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