Northwest Berry Cookbook: Finding, Growing, and Cooking With Berries Year-Round

by Kathleen Desmond Stang

Via 42 perfect recipes Stang provides great ideas for using the region's freshest ingredients in recipes such as Bob's Blueberry Blue Cornmeal Buttermilk Pancakes and Roast Pork with Blackberry-Pinot Noir Sauce.

Genres: Cookbooks

144 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1998

Reviews

[Heydi Smith · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book had some interesting recipes but no pictures of the food. I really like to visualize the dish before I cook it.

[Stephen · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is an excellent overview of berries commonly available in the Pacific Northwest (with the rather remarkable exception of cherries, which are common in these parts but unmentioned in this text) and a lovely short collection of recipes to use them in a wide variety of ways. The author seems to have an unlimited supply of sisters from whom she learned many of these recipes. I promptly made the Raspberry Bread pudding (page 129) and, after tinkering with the recipe a bit (e.g. by the addition of a wee drop of true vanilla extract to the custard mix and the addition of a brown-sugar crumbly crust), produced a lovely dessert. This book will come back off the shelf as soon as fresh-berry season arrives because cooking with frozen or canned berries is just not the same thing as the real thing.

[Salsabrarian]

Cookbook where I got the blueberry and raspberry vinegars, and the cinnamon-topped raspberry muffins.