New England Home Cooking: 350 Recipes from Town and Country, Land and Sea, Hearth and Home

by Brooke Dojny

A witty, authoritative, and comprehensive celebration of cooking in the New England style with over 350 recipes for soups, salads, appetizers, breads, main courses, vegetables, jams and preserves, and desserts. Brooke Dojny, a native New Englander, has adapted traditional recipes to modern tastes by streamlining cooking methods and adding contemporary ingredients. She has also included such Yankee classics as North End Clams Casino, Wellfleet Oysters on the Half Shell with Mango Mignonette, Hashed Chicken with Dried Cranberries, Maine-Style Molasses Baked Yellow-Eyes, New England Cobb Salad, Shaker Whipped Winter Squash with Cape Cod Cranberries, Wood-Grilled Steak au Poivre with a Vegetable Bouquet, Pan-Seared Venison Steaks with Peppery Beach Plum Sauce, Succulent Braised Chicken Portuguese Style, Little Italy Calamari in Spicy Red Sauce, Grilled Chive-Tarragon Lobster, Reach House Blueberry Cobbler, and Chocolate Bread and Butter Pudding.

Genres: Cookbooks, Nonfiction, Cooking

672 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1999

Reviews

[Suzanne · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a cookbook I use a lot despite the old-fashioned tradition of the recipes. Wish it had pictures...but it does have favorite recipes from all over New England with interesting personal vignettes compiled by the author.

[Linda · Rating 5 out of 5]

An older cookbook with recipes that make my mouth water and my cholesterol and wallet cringe. I "NEED" a beach house!

[Elisabeth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best venison chili recipe I know. Okay, if you don't like venison use stew meat. Still awesome.

[False · Rating 2 out of 5]

A wide variety of recipes, but most of them seem dated in terms of how we eat now. Many reminded me of cooking circa 1950-60.

[Rhea]

My book, Wednesday's Child, is quoted in this book.

[Amanda · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was fascinating to see how closely tied to this region I am, as all my family recipes and things I ate growing up were in here, even though I was born on the West Coast. I still have yellowed handwritten recipe cards of my grandmother's for so many of these dishes, like the stuffed cabbage, greek cookies, pickles and many of the apple desserts. It made me very homesick for a place I grew up visiting often but never lived in. There are barely any photos, but it's an excellent resource with tons of recipes, and the author worked for Martha Stewart, so points for that. I'd love to find a copy of this just for nostalgia's sake.