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Christmas Cookies Are for Giving: Recipes, Stories and Tips for Making Heartwarming Gifts
Kristin Johnson , and Mimi Cummins Manufacturer: TYR Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0972347399 |
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More than a cookbook, Christmas Cookies Are for Giving is a celebration of family, friends and the joy of giving. Stories, recipes, tips and more...Customer Reviews:
Don't waste your money!.......2005-05-07
A mouth-watering collection of holiday cookies.......2004-10-11
Let it Snow, I'm Baking Cookies.......2003-12-16
Kristin Johnson and Mimi Cummins have created a festive book filled with recipes, stories and tips for making unique holiday gifts. Kristin and Mimi lived next door to each other when they were young children and remember the scent of cinnamon, cookies baking and eating cookie dough.
Kristin is an award-winning writer who has written about food online and is famous for her cookie-baking. Mimi Cummings is an avid cookbook-reader and recipe tester. She has worked with professional pastry chefs and also created a website for her grandmother's legendary Christmas cookie recipes. Her site is now the most comprehensive repository of Christmas cookie recipes on the Internet. You can also look for favorite Christmas recipes at the Cookie Exchange forum and even submit your favorite cookie recipe.
"Christmas Cookies Are For Giving" is filled with cooking advice, Christmas stories, cookie recipes and inspiration. You will find heirloom recipes from family and friends, brand-new original recipes, recipes developed by chefs and even a few recipes from Kristin and Mimi's favorite food promotion organizations. Some of the traditional recipes date back to before Mimi and Kristin's ancestors immigrated to the United States.
Each recipe has a full-color photograph to inspire a festive mood and a shopping trip to buy ingredients! Most of the recipes include ingredients you will already have in your kitchen, but you might want to go shopping for mason jars, ribbon and fabric to make the "Cookies in a Jar."
Contents:
The Giving Christmas Cookie - A poignant story about a woman's memories of Vanillekipferl (Vanilla Crescents) from Vienna and how her recipe leads to bringing Christmas spirit to her community.
Christmas Cookie Baking: Tips and Hints -Anyone who is new to baking will appreciate these tips. There are also tips for using the best ingredients and using insulated cookie sheets, which I can also say are highly recommended.
Christmas Cookie Recipes - The recipe for "Vanillekipferl" made with blanched almonds, sugar and vanilla. This recipe also shows you how to make vanilla sugar. There are recipes for everyone from the gourmet coffee connoisseur to art lovers. Children will love the "Cathedral Windows" and "Butterball Santas." Coffee lovers will enjoy the "Walnut Cappuccino" or "Cherry" Biscotti. "Cranberry Spice Bread" is perfect for shipping to friends and family. Just wait until you see the picture for the "Chocolate Cranberry Holiday Bars" and "Pistachio Cookie Tree." The recipe for "Speculaci" includes a story and information on how to paint cookies. You can use the Royal Icing on pg. 130.
Christmas Cookie Gift Presentation - Delicious ideas and great suggestions for making up cookie baskets with additional treats. You might want to include copies of this book to encourage the "giving" tradition.
Shipping Christmas Cookies - What type of cookies can you ship? How do you package them and how do you ship them?
Gifts in a Jar - Great idea if you don't have time to bake. You just pour layers of ingredients into a jar and decorate in a festive way.
Christmas Cookie Stories - The first story is an amusing story about a woman whose marriage is based on Springerle. I believe it after seeing the look on my husband's face when I tried to change a chocolate chip cookie recipe he loves. He won't eat them now unless they have Muscovado sugar in the mixture! There is also an adorable and very amusing story of how a three year old makes her first Christmas cookies. This is the type of cookbook you want to read while sipping a cup of tea while wrapped up in a down comforter by a fireplace.
This cookbook is the most meaningful book I've read this year. It brought back my own memories of my grandmother baking more cookies than we could ever eat in one holiday season. I remember Christmas cookies stored in cookie tins that always tasted like they had just been made. She was famous for always keeping a few cookies hidden in tins for tea after the holidays.
Since no one in our family seems to make as many cookies for the holiday season, I've tried to carry on this tradition by making tins of cookies for my family each year. This book has given me some new ideas and I even found the recipe for "Cathedral Windows" that my aunt makes each Christmas.
"Christmas Cookies Are For Giving" is filled with Christmas spirit, loving memories and delicious buttery cookie recipes! If you are looking for a Christmas gift for your friends and family, this book is more than a cookbook, it is a wish for future holiday memories.
~TheRebeccaReview.com
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Start a family tradition!.......2003-11-14
Heartwarming Christmas Cookie Book.......2003-11-13
Now for the recipes. They are terrific! So many favorites from simpler times when making Christmas cookies was a family affair; a joyous time between mother and daughter, mother and son, or the whole family pitching in. The recipes are created by the authors; recipes from average people with wonderful stories to tell about their experiences in life with making Christmas cookies with their families, and recipes contributed from commerical food companies, and food organizations. I highly recommend this touching and very informative book. It's one you will pass down to your children and grandchildren. Give this to people you love, and give it to yourself. It's one of the best gifts you'll receive this year.
Reviewed by Diana Baker Woodall
DianasDesserts.Com - A Website For Home Bakers
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Baking for Christmas: 50 Of the Best Cookie, Bread and Cake Recipes for Holiday Gift Giving, Decorating and Eating
Maria Polushkin , and Maria Robbins Manufacturer: St Martins Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0312134320 |
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Lots of good stuff to bake as gifts.......1998-09-02
However, I really like this book for what it does have: cookies that pack well to mail to faraway friends, some interesting biscotti recipes (I can't wait to try the cranberry pistachio one), and special holiday breads and cakes, including some unusual fruitcakes (one made with dried berries instead of that yucky, gooey stuff in most fruitcakes).
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Baking for Gift-Giving (American Baking Classics)
Lisa Yockelson Manufacturer: Harpercollins ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0060167505 |
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Gifts from the Kitchen (Made for Giving)
Pamela Westland Manufacturer: Reader's Digest ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0276423054 |
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Beautifully done!.......2007-01-30
better than most.......2002-11-02
Wonderful gift ideas and packaging instructions.......1999-01-18
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Baking for Gift-Giving (American Baking Classics)
Lisa Yockelson Manufacturer: Harpercollins ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000OE5LJM |
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The Big Book of Fenton Milk Glass, 1940-1985
John Walk Manufacturer: Not Avail ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0764320378 |
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Milk Glass Moon
Manufacturer: Random House Audio ProductGroup: Book Binding: Audio Cassette Similar Items:
ASIN: 0553756877 Release Date: 2002-07-09 |
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Milk Glass Moon, the third book in Adriana Trigiani's bestselling Big Stone Gap series, continues the life story of Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney as she faces the challenges and changes of motherhood with her trademark humor and honesty. With twists as plentiful as those found on the holler roads of southwest Virginia, this story takes turns that will surprise and enthrall the reader.Download Description
Milk Glass Moon, the third book in Adriana Trigiani's bestselling Big Stone Gap series, continues the life story of Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney as she faces the challenges and changes of motherhood with her trademark humor and honesty. With twists as plentiful as those found on the holler roads of southwest Virginia, this story takes turns that will surprise and enthrall the reader.
Transporting us from Ave Maria's home in the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Italian Alps, from New York City to the Tuscan countryside, Milk Glass Moon is the story of a shifting mother-daughter relationship, of a daughter's first love and a mother's heartbreak, of an enduring marriage that contains its own ongoing challenges, and of a community faced with seismic change.
All of Trigiani's beloved characters are back: Jack Mac, Ave Maria's true love, who is willing to gamble security for the unknown; her best friend and confidant, bandleader Theodore Tipton, who begins a new life in New York City; librarian and sexpert Iva Lou Wade Makin, who faces a life-or-death crisis. Meanwhile, surprises emerge in the blossoming of crusty cashier Fleeta Mullins, the maturing of mountain girl turned savvy businesswoman Pearl Grimes, and the return of Pete Rutledge, the handsome stranger who turned Ave Maria's world upside down in Big Cherry Holler.
In this rollicking hayride of upheaval and change, Ave Maria is led to places she never dreamed she would go, and to people who enter her life and rock its foundation. As Ave Maria reaches into the past to find answers to the present, readers will stay with her every step of the way, rooting for the onetime town spinster who embraced love and made a family. Milk Glass Moon is about the power of love and its abiding truth, and captures Trigiani at her most lyrical and heartfelt.
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Book Review.......2007-10-01
GOOD READ.......2007-06-01
Milk Glass Moon.......2007-02-11
The third book in the "Big Stone Gap" quartet.......2006-09-09
Wonderful book!.......2006-05-24
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Make Me a Peanut Butter Sandwich and a Glass of Milk
Ken Robbins Manufacturer: Scholastic Trade ProductGroup: Book Binding: School & Library Binding Similar Items: ASIN: 0590435507 |
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3 Book Set By Adriana Trigiani; Big Cherry Holler; Milk Glass Moon; Lucia, Lucia.
Adriana Trigiani ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000WY142M |
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3 Book Set By Adriana Trigiani; Big Cherry Holler; Milk Glass Moon; Lucia, Lucia.
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The Big Book of Fenton Milk Glass: 1940-1985 (Schiffer Book for Collectors Series)
Manufacturer: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000FCFQJ8 |
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Milk Glass Crochet Design Book No. 78
(unknown author) Manufacturer: Lily Mills Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000KK0RGC |
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Opaque glass;: A book showing a major portion of opaque glass in their various forms
Samuel Thomas Millard Manufacturer: Central Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B0007J6XZA |
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The Milk Glass Book (Schiffer Book for Collectors)
Frank Chiarenza , and James Alexander Slater Manufacturer: Schiffer Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0764306618 |
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"Milk glass" today is considered neither white nor entirely opaque, as illustrated by more than 450 photos in this book. Drawn from the extensive collections of members of the National Milk Glass Collectors Society, most pieces pictured here have not appeared in any previous book. Even long-time collectors will be surprised to see items they have never encountered. American, English, French and other foreign manufacturers are represented. Some pieces are shown here in extremely rare colors. A special section shows items that have puzzled collectors or whose distinctive qualities merit special attention. Twenty-four pages from early catalogs of the French glasshouses Vallerysthal and Portieux are reprinted in color illustrating exquisite pieces. A checklist of major manufacturers, selected readings, index, and value guide are also provided. A must for lovers of milk glass, this book will appeal to all who appreciate finely-made glass.Customer Reviews:
Very good reference.......2006-01-30
This book is for the collector looking for scarce pieces........1999-02-04
What I found the most interesting about the book was the detailed descriptions of each of the pieces and the wonderful clear pictures accompanying them. The author would not only describe the piece, he would tell you who made the piece and how his conclusion was reached based on other pieces, which have been positively identified. Similar pieces were compared in many instances and subtle differences in designs were noted to educate the reader on how to identify reproductions from the original.
Excellent quality and descriptions.......1998-12-21
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