Description:Start with a basic collection of clever cooks, such as Betta, a rich merchant’s daughter who creates her true love out of marzipan. Or Gretel, who eats up her employer’s chicken but neatly avoids punishment. Stir in a few recipes—quick butter cookies, hearty soup, molasses milk shakes. Sprinkle in some riddles and a charm or two, and you end up with a most delightful concoction. This is precisely what Ellin Green has done Iin this charming anthology. She has put together a dozen stories involving clever cooks who outwit fairies, giants, kings and just ordinary people. Interspersed among the stories are charms, riddles and recipes that augment the stories and tickle the imagination. Mrs. Green has woven a wide variety of material into a cohesive whole that is laced throughout with warmth and humor.Contents:The woman who flummoxed the fairiesFairy cake recipeCome, butter, comeButter cookies recipeBrewery of eggshells (Wales)The old woman who lost her dumpling (Japan)Cherry dumpling recipeClever Oonagh (Ireland)Griddle bread recipeDwarf Long Nose (Germany)Chocolate potato cakeChocolate butter icingCushy cow, bonnyMolasses milk shake recipePinto Smalto (Italy)Marzipan recipeCoconut kissesThe miller, his cook, and the king (Slovenia)Menu for a kingClever GrethelRoast chicken recipeThe one-legged crane (Italy)A very great curiosityPancake dayPancake recipesHoney butter recipeThe birth of Simnel cake (England)Simnel cake recipeThe perambulatin' pumpkinPumpkin chiffon pie recipeGingersnap crumb crust recipeThe old woman and the tramp (Sweden)Hearty soup recipeWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Clever Cooks: A Concoction of Stories, Charms, Recipes & Riddles. To get started finding Clever Cooks: A Concoction of Stories, Charms, Recipes & Riddles, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
164
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company
Release
1973
ISBN
0688515193
Clever Cooks: A Concoction of Stories, Charms, Recipes & Riddles
Description: Start with a basic collection of clever cooks, such as Betta, a rich merchant’s daughter who creates her true love out of marzipan. Or Gretel, who eats up her employer’s chicken but neatly avoids punishment. Stir in a few recipes—quick butter cookies, hearty soup, molasses milk shakes. Sprinkle in some riddles and a charm or two, and you end up with a most delightful concoction. This is precisely what Ellin Green has done Iin this charming anthology. She has put together a dozen stories involving clever cooks who outwit fairies, giants, kings and just ordinary people. Interspersed among the stories are charms, riddles and recipes that augment the stories and tickle the imagination. Mrs. Green has woven a wide variety of material into a cohesive whole that is laced throughout with warmth and humor.Contents:The woman who flummoxed the fairiesFairy cake recipeCome, butter, comeButter cookies recipeBrewery of eggshells (Wales)The old woman who lost her dumpling (Japan)Cherry dumpling recipeClever Oonagh (Ireland)Griddle bread recipeDwarf Long Nose (Germany)Chocolate potato cakeChocolate butter icingCushy cow, bonnyMolasses milk shake recipePinto Smalto (Italy)Marzipan recipeCoconut kissesThe miller, his cook, and the king (Slovenia)Menu for a kingClever GrethelRoast chicken recipeThe one-legged crane (Italy)A very great curiosityPancake dayPancake recipesHoney butter recipeThe birth of Simnel cake (England)Simnel cake recipeThe perambulatin' pumpkinPumpkin chiffon pie recipeGingersnap crumb crust recipeThe old woman and the tramp (Sweden)Hearty soup recipeWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Clever Cooks: A Concoction of Stories, Charms, Recipes & Riddles. To get started finding Clever Cooks: A Concoction of Stories, Charms, Recipes & Riddles, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.