Dairy Hollow House Soup & Bread Cookbook - Softcover

Dragonwagon, Crescent

Softcover

ISBN 10: 089480751X ISBN 13: 9780894807510

Publisher: Workman Publishing Company, 1992

Synopsis

In every traveler's mind exists the perfect little out-of-the-way inn where the bread is always fresh-baked and the beds are downright heavenly. And where the soup is gratifying, gutsy, and downright gratifying.

Since 1981, Crescent Dragonwagon-noted children's book author, cookbook writer, and innkeeper-has owned that perfect little inn: Dairy Hollow House in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.

Distilling all her soup-making, bread-baking and salad-mixing wisdom into one book, Crescent Dragonwagon presents 200 of the recipes that have made her inn a many-time winner of the Uncle Ben's Best Inn of the Year Award. Here are the pedigreed soups: Winter Borscht . la Vielle Russe, Cuban Black Bean Soup. Soups with a twist: Fishysoisse, Gazpacho Rosa, New World Corn Chowder. Soups to warm you up: Deep December Cream of Root Soup. And soups to cool you down: Chilled Avocado Soup, Mexique Bay, Orange Blossom Special. Plus dozens of fabulous breads, from Slightly Fanatic Whole-Grain Dream Bread to Rosemary Foccacia Dairy Hollow, and salads, including Beet and Apple Salad on Mixed Greens. Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club's HomeStyle Books and Better Homes & Gardens Family Book Service. Over 267,000 copies in print.

About this title

From the Back Cover

CRESCENT DRAGONWAGON IS THE ALICE WATERS OF THE OZARKS . . .

turning out a nightly stream of creations wherein the best of country and city converge. -House Beautiful

Consistently rated one of America's ten best country inns, Dairy Hollow House in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, is celebrated for a unique cuisine built on such traditional country ingredients as farm fresh chicken, wild mushrooms, greens, dried beans, and summer's berries. Now in over 200 recipes, chef and owner Crescent Dragonwagon shares all her soup-making, bread-baking, and salad-tossing wisdom in a cookbook that's as gutsy and distinctive as a steaming bowl of gumbo-in five variations. Welcome.

Along with being an innkeeper and chef, Crescent Dragonwagon is a cooking teacher, award-winning children's book writer, and author of four cookbooks including THE DAIRY HOLLOW HOUSE COOKBOOK. She and her husband, Neal Shank, live at the innkeeper's house at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.

A SEASON OF SOUPS . . .

FALL

 Chicken Soup with Forest Mushrooms

 Mussel Soup Dublin

 Autumn Cream of Onion Soup with Brandy and Cider

 RosS and Apple Velvet Soup

WINTER

 Deep December Cream of Root Soup

 Wintery Chicken and Pasta Soup

 Hillbilly Many-Bean Soup

 Winter Borscht . la Vielle Russe

SPRING

 Asparagus and White Wine Soup

 Chicken and Rice Soup with Fresh Spring Vegetables

 Chilled Strawberry Soup with CrSme Fraiche

 Gingered Fresh Pea Soup with Snow Peas and Water Chestnuts

SUMMER

 Chilled Corn Chowder with Dill and Scallions

 Gazpacho Rosa

 Peach Soup with Almonds

 Augusta's Chilled Tomato Soup with Basil Cream

AND A BASKET OF BREADS

 Herbed Mezzaluna Bread

 Skillet-sizzled Buttermilk Cornbread

 Scotch Baps

 Slightly Fanatic Whole Grain Bread

 Custom-Made Biscuits As You Like Them

 Rosemary Focaccia

About the Author

Crescent Dragonwagon is the James Beard Award–winning author of seven cookbooks, including Dairy Hollow House Soup & Bread Cookbook, Passionate Vegetarian, and, most recently, The Cornbread Gospels. She is also a contributing editor to Relish magazine and has appeared on Good Morning America, Today and NPR’s The Splendid Table. She lives, grows, and cooks her beans on a farm in Putney, Vermont.

About this edition

• Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 089480751X
• ISBN 13: 9780894807510
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416