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Desserts from an Herb Garden: Glorious Endings with Flavors from Angelica and Rosemary to Lavender and Thyme
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Product Description
These are delicious, beautiful desserts that will delight bakers and gardeners (though you needn't grow the herbs yourself), and bring something truly new to the cook's table. Because of its unique subject and excellent quality, this book will stand out on the cookbook shelves. Recipes include Lemon-Rosemary Cream Cake * Chocolate Mint Biscotti * Berry Thyme Cobbler * Lemon Blueberry Sorbet * Maple Walnut Cookies * Apricot-Savor Cookie Cups * and many more. This dazzling collection by a smart, successful, young baker will bring renewed joy to those who love to bake.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2238235 in Books
- Published on: 1999-06-25
- Original language: English
- Binding: Hardcover
- 192 pages
Editorial Reviews
From Amazon.com
If you are tired of the same old desserts, and if you have ready access to a wide variety of fresh, sweet herbs (various basils, lemon thyme, tarragon, lavender, anise hyssop, and the like), Desserts from an Herb Garden will have you experimenting away in the kitchen in no time. The trick is the herbs. Author Sharon Kebschull Barrett says right up front that except for lavender, all the herbs she uses in her recipes are fresh, and there's no point in trying to substitute dried. Fortunately, there are a number of recipes that call for sweet basil and for mint, two herbs that most stores carry fresh. Try the Apple-Basil Cake or the Blueberry-Mint Layer Cake. Or the Mint Julep Truffles.
If those recipes catch your attention, you may find yourself putting in a small herb garden, or investing in window boxes and pots big enough to hold several herbs. Barrett gives her thoughts on the growing and cultivation of herbs. She notes that any herbs she grows indoors are always milder that the those she grows outdoors. And this leads to a basic rule of thumb: taste your herbs before you use them.
The book is divided into sections on Cookies and Candies; Cakes of All Kinds; Pies, Tarts, and Tortes; Crisps, Cobblers, Custards, and Puddings; Frozen Desserts; and Plated Desserts. The flavors Barrett combines may challenge your previous conceptions of dessert--look inside for Cinnamon Basil Polenta Cookies, Cilantro Peach Cobbler, Chocolate-Lime Bread Pudding, and more. Desserts from an Herb Garden may well be a portal to a whole new world, where the garden and the kitchen meet to spin fantasies of flavor. --Schuyler Ingle
From Booklist
Desserts flavored with rosemary, lemon balm, mint, or lavender are often a source of great delight to avid gardeners as well as enthusiastic cooks, who find they must frequent the local supermarket to stock up on fresh herbs. Barrett provides an excellent assortment of dessert offerings to highlight the so-called sweet herbs. Biscotti and cream cake, chocolate truffles, and sorbets and ice creams are discussed here, along with helpful hints and practical advice to assist with all stages of preparation and baking. Plenty of easy-to-prepare cookie recipes should please cooks with too little time; such spectacular sweets as white chocolate-lavender napoleons and blueberry Bavarian torte with lemon thyme sauce deserve to top off special meals. Alice Joyce
From the Publisher
"Sharon Barrett's use of savory herbs with sweet desserts is utterly beguiling. These recipes give many familiar favorites a bright twist. If you've been wondering what else to do with the herbs in your garden, as I have, this book will certainly provide some very original answers." --Deborah Madison, author of The Savory Way and Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone
