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Books Title: Textile Designs: Two Hundred Years of European andAmerican Patterns for Printed Fabrics Organized by Motif, Style, Color Layout, and Period. Author/Year: Susan Meller and Joost Elffers (1991) Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc Publishers Cost: $37.50 (Amazon.com – $25.00) Review: This book contains 1,823 colored illustrations of textiles (in a wide variety of sizes). Absolutely wonderful for scrapbooking (copy onto cardstock). You cannot imagine the array of designs! I found my copy at Barnes and Noble. The possibilities for this book are endless! Title: Fantastic Folds (Origami Projects) Author/Year: Sasha Williamson (1997) Publisher:
Phoebus Editions, Ltd, London Cost: $16.95 (Amazon.com - $12) Review: I have a few origami books but use this one exclusively. Easy folds,
directions, and great
pictures. Title:
Fanciful Paper Projects: Making
Your Own Posh Little Follies Author/Year:
Evertson, Sandra (2005) Publisher:
Sterling Publishing Co., New York Cost:
$14.95 (Amazon.com - $10.00) Review:
I’ll admit – I have been known to purchase books just for the
cover or the title! This one has
both going for it. There are
adorable images inside and I have often copied onto cardstock and used them in
the mini-cookbooks.
I love this book.
Do you have a favorite book you use for scrapbooking ideas that you’d like to share with others? Please email to me: Cheryl@croppingcooks.com
Cookbook
Review
Do you have a cookbook that never fails you?
Every recipe is a winner? Tell
us about it. Email me at: Cheryl@croppingcooks.com These are cookbooks that I think you will definitely enjoy! 1. Innkeepers’ Best Cookies: 60 Delicious Recipes Shared by Bed & Breakfast Innkeepers Across the Country by Laura Zahn ($9.95, Down to Earth Publications, St. Paul MN) – I have made 25+ of the cookies and bars in this book and they are all great – especially the potato chip cookies and all of the oatmeal/chocolate chip cookies. 2. Quick Soups ‘n Salads by Cyndi Duncan and Georgia Patrick ($14.95 by C & G Publishing, Greeley, CO) – This cookbook contains very quick and tasty salads including a Trail Mix Salad with lettuce, mandarin oranges, trail mix (not the one with the chocolate!!), and a terrific honey mustard dressing. Cyndi and Georgia are well-known cookbook authors in this area who have written a number of handy cookbooks including Quick Mexican Cooking, Quick Crockery Cooking, and several others. 3.
The Cake Doctor by Anne Byrn ($14.95 by Workman Publishing, New
York) – All of these Cake Doctor cookbooks are great.
The primary ingredient is a cake mix.
Many of the cookie recipes have just three ingredients yet the cookies
are tender and delicious. There is also an interesting cake mix time line in the front
of the book. For example, in 1842 Jay Fowler of Baltimore patented self-rising
flour, the beginning of the mix. In
1943 cake mixes were plagued by poor packaging. Four years later General Mills introduced a devil’s food
and party cake mix. Did you know? According to Kitchen Culture, sales of bundt cakes were slow until the 1960 Good Housekeeping Cookbook showed a color picture of a pound cake baked in a bundt pan. In 1966 sales rose again when the top prize in the Pillsbury Bake-Off went to a Tunnel of Fudge cake made in a bundt pan. 4. Best Recipes From American Country Inns and Bed & Breakfasts by Kitty and Lucian Maynard (24.99, Rutledge Hill Press, Nashville, TN) – This is the third book I have purchased by the Maynards – I just love them. These are the best recipes of 450 Bed & Breakfasts nationwide. You know how the church cookbooks always contain the member’s best recipes? The same can be said about this book. The recipes are simple and if I don’t feel like going through my cookbooks looking for a particular recipe, I will find what I need in this book. I highly recommend any of the Maynard’s cookbooks. |
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