Here is the great basic American cookbook—with more than 1,990 recipes, plain and fancy—that belongs in every household.
Originally published in 1896 as The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer, it became the coobook that taught generations of Americans how to cook. Completely updating it for the first time since 1979, Marion Cunningham made Fannie Farmer once again a household word for a new generation of cooks.
What makes this basic cookbook so distinctive is that Marion Cunningham, who is the personification of the nineteenth-century teacher, is always at your side with her forthright tips and comments, encouraging the beginning cook and inspiring the more adventurous. She knows what today's cooks are looking for, and she has a way of instilling confidence and joy in the act of cooking.
In giving the book new life, Mrs. Cunningham has been careful always to preserve the best of the old. She has retained all the particularly good, tried-and-true recipes from preceding editions, retesting and rewriting when necessary. She has rediscovered lost treasures, including delicious recipes that were eliminated when practically no one baked bread at home. This is now the place to find the finest possible recipes for Pumpkin Soup, Boston Baked Beans, Carpetbag Steak, Roast Stuffed Turkey, Anadama Bread, Indian Pudding, Apple Pie, and all of the other traditional favorites.
The new recipes reflect ethnic influences—Mediterranean, Moroccan, Asian—that have been adding their flavors to American cooking in recent years. Tucked in among all your favorites like Old-Fashioned Beef Stew, New England Clam Chowder, Ham Timbales, and Chicken Jambalaya, you'll find her cool Cucumber Sushi, Enchiladas with Chicken and Green Sauce, or a layered dish of Polenta and Fish to add variety to your repertoire. Always a champion of old-fashioned breakfasts and delectable desserts, Mrs. Cunningham has many splendid new offerings to tempt you.
Throughout, cooking terms and procedures are explained, essential ingredients are spelled out, basic equipment is assessed. Mrs. Cunningham even tells you how to make a good cup of coffee and how to brew tea properly.
For the diet-conscious, there is an expanded nutritional chart that includes a breakdown of cholesterol and fat in common ingredients as well as in Fannie Farmer basic recipes. Where the taste of a dish would not be altered, Mrs. Cunningham has reduced the amount of cream and butter in some of the recipes from the preceding edition. She carefully evaluates the issues of food safety today and alerts us to potential hazards.
But the emphasis here is always on good flavor, fresh ingredients, and lots of variety in one's daily fare, which Marion Cunningham believes is the secret to a healthy diet. Dedicated to the home cooks of America, young and old, this thirteenth edition of the book that won the hearts of Americans more than a century ago invites us all—as did the original Fannie Farmer—to cherish the delights of the family table.
From the Hardcover edition.
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说实话,我买过不少号称“万能”的食谱书,但大多都是中看不中用,要么配图过于花哨但步骤模糊不清,要么就是专注于某一种菜系,适用范围太窄。然而,这本厚重的家伙,真正做到了“博大精深”。它就像一个老派的、沉稳的导师,不会用浮夸的词藻来吸引你,但你一旦翻开,就会被它那种扎实的专业性所折服。我特别喜欢它在经典菜式上下的功夫,比如烤鸡。不同的烤制温度、时间,甚至烤盘的选择对最终成品的影响,都被详尽地记录下来,并给出了多种变体,让你能够根据自己手头的工具和口味偏好进行调整。最让我感到惊艳的是它对调味品的理解,它不是简单地列出“加盐”,而是会告诉你,在这个特定的酱汁里,少许的酸度(比如一滴柠檬汁)能如何提升整体的鲜味层次,或者哪种香料与哪种蔬菜是天生一对。这种对味道的精妙把控,让我的日常烹饪水平有了一个质的飞跃,我开始敢于在既定配方上进行自己的创新,因为我知道自己已经掌握了烹饪的“语法”而不是仅仅背诵“句子”。
评分这本书给我的最大感受是它的“实用主义”精神,它完全没有被那些转瞬即逝的潮流所裹挟,专注于那些真正构成美味基石的元素。它更像是一部厨房的“操作手册”,而不是一本“美食杂志”。例如,当我需要更换食材时,它会提供非常实用的替换指南。如果食谱要求用某种特定的黄油,而我手边只有另一种脂肪含量不同的产品,书中往往会给出调整液态或其他配料比例的建议,这种“应变能力”的培养,是任何预设好的模板都无法给予的。我个人对烘焙中的酵母使用特别头疼,但这本书对不同温度下酵母的活性变化,以及如何判断面团是否发酵到位(不仅是看体积,还涉及触感和气味),做了非常细致的图文解析。它强调的是“理解”而非“盲从”。在我的厨房里,它已经不仅仅是一本食谱了,它更像是一个安静的、知识渊博的伙伴,在我遇到任何烹饪难题时,总能提供最合理、最经得起推敲的解决方案,让我能够始终保持对烹饪的热情和探索欲。
评分这本书给我的感觉,更像是一部厨房里的“百科全书”,而不是一本简单的食谱集。我常常把它放在厨房的操作台旁边,遇到任何烹饪上的疑问,我都会先翻阅它,而不是立刻打开手机搜索。它的信息密度非常高,每页纸上承载的知识量都令人叹为观止。我记得有一次,我急需制作一个基础的高汤,市面上的食谱大多只提到了牛肉骨或鸡骨,但这本书里,它竟然详细对比了不同动物骨骼熬制高汤的风味差异,以及如何通过焯水和慢炖的时间来控制汤的澄清度和浓郁度。这种对细节的执着,体现了编纂者对烹饪艺术的尊重。而且,它的章节划分极其人性化,即使是像“腌制”这样看似简单的环节,也被细分成了干腌、湿腌、浸泡等不同方法,并针对不同的肉类给出了最佳操作建议。对于那些想要从“会做饭”跨越到“精通烹饪”的进阶爱好者来说,这本书提供了一条清晰、可靠的路径,它提供的知识是具有“复利效应”的,你学到的每一个技巧,都会在你未来的每一次烹饪中得到应用和加强。
评分这本料理圣经简直是厨房里的“定海神针”!我拿到它的时候,简直像发现了一个宝藏。首先,从装帧上看,它就透着一股经典和可靠感,厚实的手感让人觉得里面装的都是经过时间考验的真知灼见。我尤其欣赏它编排的逻辑性,不是那种零散的食谱堆砌,而是非常有体系地从基础技巧开始,逐步深入到复杂的菜肴。比如,它对各种面糊的介绍,简直是面面俱到,从海绵蛋糕的打发技巧到酥皮的层次处理,每一个细节都掰开了揉碎了讲,让我这个烘焙新手也能迅速建立起信心。我第一次尝试做蛋黄酱时,按照书里的指示,缓慢地、稳定地滴入油,成品完美乳化,口感细腻得让我怀疑自己是不是突然拥有了五星级厨师的手艺。而且,它对于食材的处理和储存也有独到的见解,比如如何判断肉类的新鲜度,如何正确地冷冻蔬菜以保持其风味,这些都是我们在网上随便搜索食谱时常常忽略掉的“底层逻辑”。这本书不仅仅是教你“做什么”,更是教你“为什么这么做”,这种知识的深度,是那些轻飘飘的网红食谱完全无法比拟的,它真正培养的是读者的烹饪思维,而非仅仅是模仿能力。
评分坦率地说,我不太喜欢那种只有大图和极简步骤的食谱书,它们读起来缺乏厚重感和历史沉淀。而这本,光是翻阅它,就让人感觉仿佛正在接受一位资深大厨的言传身教。它的文字风格非常平实、准确,不卖弄技巧,但字里行间透露出一种强大的自信——这是建立在无数次实践和验证之上的自信。我特别欣赏它在处理传统和现代菜肴时的平衡感。它不仅保留了那些流传百年的经典做法,还巧妙地融入了对现代健康饮食趋势的考量,比如在某些传统油炸菜肴旁边,会给出使用空气炸锅或烤箱进行“轻量化”处理的可行方案和相应调整。这让这本书显得与时俱进,而不是一本故纸堆里的古董。我前段时间尝试用它推荐的焦糖布丁配方,那层薄脆的焦糖壳子,在用喷枪炙烤后,达到了教科书般的完美状态,口感的层次感——从冰凉顺滑的内馅到微微爆裂的焦糖,简直是味觉的盛宴。这本书的价值在于,它让你每次成功制作出一道菜时,都会有一种深刻的成就感,因为你知道,这成功并非偶然,而是源于对科学方法的精确遵循。
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