Walnut Pickles and Watermelon Cake: A Century of Michigan Cooking (Great Lakes Books Series)

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For people who keep in mind that their grandma’s incomparable chicken and dumplings or long for the aroma of freshly baked bread and sumptuous bubbling stew, the recipes assembled by Larry and Priscilla Massie from vintage Michigan cookbooks provide a sampling of the state’s wealthy culinary heritage.

Walnut Pickles and Watermelon Cake incorporates instructions for preparing plenty of foods, from snacks and relishes to meats, vegetables, breads, and desserts. There are recipes for intriguing creations such as pear honey, potato candy, and spruce beer and for concoctions with delightful names like bubble and squeak, sailor’s duff, and painted ladies.

The Massies also include recipes that acknowledge the influences of the quite a lot of ethnic groups that peopled the state and added colorful specialties to Michigan’s menu. Long after the memory of the “old country” had faded, Cornish pasties, Dutch wine soup and hutspot, and Scottish haggis continued to make Michigan eating a unique experience.

Larry and Priscilla Massie are a husband and wife team focusing on Michigan history. Larry’s publications include From Frontier Folk to Factory Smoke, Voyages into Michigan’s Past, and Warm Friends and Wooden Shoes. The Massies live within the Allegan State Forest in a century-old school house stuffed with their thirty-thousand volume research library and their selection of historic artifacts from Michigan’s past.

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