Review: Another keeper cookbook
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 28, 2012
Author Teresa Ann Phillips has written another old-fashioned cookbook filled with keeper recipes. Adding frosting to the cake, so-to-speak, is an excerpt from her book Boppli in a Basket and the romance story called Leaving Lancaster County.As to the cookbook:The cookbook has an active table of contents making navigation easy. Some of the recipes you will find in her cookbook include:Poor Man's SteakTeresa's Baked BeansCocoa Buttermilk Cake with GingerSour Cream Orange PoundcakeAs to the novels:My favorite of the two is Leaving Lancaster County. Phillips writing about the character Miriam will pull the strings of your heart as she tries to survive after the death of her parents. Miriam was also left to raise her child alone without family support after the death of her parents.Phillips writing is fairly good, better than some of the other Amish-based novels I have read, as her storyline moves at a quick pace. The characters are fleshed out and seem real.Overall, for an author who is still learning her craft (as all writers truly are) she's done a masterful job creating a novel worth reading.The sample of the Boppli in a Basket is relatively well written, but not was well written as Leaving Lancaster County. This novel sample reads more like a mystery with elements of romance set in an Amish background.Recommend.