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The Breakfast Book
Marion Cunningham has created 40 breakfast menus guaranteed to make the first meal of the day the best. This collection of 288 irresistible recipes whets your appetite for honest home-cooked cereals, revives the custom of puddings and pies as breakfast treats, and devises new approaches to old breakfast dishes. 85 line art illustrations.
Hardcover, 320 pages
Published
January 21st 1997
by Gramercy
(first published 1987)
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This book is filled with yummy things for breakfast and if you are like we are those breakfasts foods can be served for dinner. Since there's just the two of us, most of the recipes are too big and elaborate for us, but it was a fun book to browse through.
This is a lovely little book. My copy is well worn & my "go to" book when looking for something different for breakfast. The recipes are simple and so.... good. We have had many delicious breakfasts from Marion Cunningham.
Wonderful breakfast alternatives such as Lemon Zephyrs. Football like confections that are just yummy, scones, muffins, breads, waffles, pancakes. Menu suggestions.
Sadly this gem is out-of-print. Try the brown scone or apple pancake recipes! Yum!
-- Did you notice the author's name? I can't help thinking "Happy Days"!
-- Did you notice the author's name? I can't help thinking "Happy Days"!
I love breakfast food. I am much more likely to go out for breakfast than anything else. This book has a lot of great recipes.
Read while on vacation - had plenty of opportunities to try breakfast recipes leisurely. The recipes are good and the book has good ideas. Will certainly reference once in a while for ideas. Out of print - glad I have a copy for my kitchen shelf.
Cave B Ginger Lemon Muffins --
Marion Cunningham writes cookbooks like she is sitting at your kitchen table with a cup of coffee, coaching you through malted waffles while she tells you a grand tale of breakfast in a small villa in Italy.
I tend to READ cookbooks way more than I actually USE them, so this familiar, conversational style is something I look for. I have actually cooked recipes from this book though--most notably the Dutch Baby--and her recipes are precise and easy to follow.
Most of all though, really fun to read....more
I tend to READ cookbooks way more than I actually USE them, so this familiar, conversational style is something I look for. I have actually cooked recipes from this book though--most notably the Dutch Baby--and her recipes are precise and easy to follow.
Most of all though, really fun to read....more
Marion Cunningham comes off as your doting auntie, and the recipes read as if they come right out of her flowered recipe box. Comforting, appealing food - I have already made the baked bananas and they were wonderful.
Hold on to your belts!
This book contains the hands down best recipes for waffles ANYWHERE.
This is not just my opinion either, the entire internet, blogosphere, food critic circle, etc agrees.
PLUS you get recipes for muffins, popovers, pancakes, fruit salads, grits, oatmeals etc.
ANYTHING you can think of that is a breakfast food, Marion's got you covered.
Highly recommend that you scour used bookstores for this baby.
This book contains the hands down best recipes for waffles ANYWHERE.
This is not just my opinion either, the entire internet, blogosphere, food critic circle, etc agrees.
PLUS you get recipes for muffins, popovers, pancakes, fruit salads, grits, oatmeals etc.
ANYTHING you can think of that is a breakfast food, Marion's got you covered.
Highly recommend that you scour used bookstores for this baby.
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I don't know why this book is out of print. One of my favorite cookbooks. This oft-overlooked meal is given the attention it deserves, and the recipes aren't just for over-indulgent comfort food. When I run an organic farm and bed and breakfast (soon), this is the book I will turn to every morning. Super fluffy lemon pancakes and baked cornmeal pudding. Practically perfect.
I looks like a lot of good recipes. I haven't made any, but I am looking forward to it.
Loved this book. Full of great recipes for the best meal of the day. Try the Raised Waffles, or any of the pancakes. Great place to start with making your own granola. When cooking for a crowd bake the bacon. Really down to earth food. This gets a Brett's Food Choice Award..
I love this one, I don't think I've had a single clunker from it. Okay,I failed on the granola but that was my fault. I make the Chewy Brown Sugar Muffins for my Mom constantly and I really liked the variety of pancake recipes.
Marion's waffles are the best ever, without hesitation. Plus, all her little anecdotes are adorable. It's breakfast at Grandma's.
Homey, friendly cookbook. Brunch is my favorite meal to cook, and this will add to my repertoire of dishes.
there is apparently a lot more to breakfast than tea and toast...
This is a good one. Very useful.
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Marion Cunningham was born in Southern California in 1922, and now lives in Walnut Creek. She was responsible for the revision of The Fannie Farmer Cookbook and is the author of The Breakfast Book, and Cooking with Children. She travels frequently throughout the country giving cooking demonstrations (some with James Beard), has contributed articles to "Bon Appetit," "Food & Wine," and "Gour...more
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