Wanda E. Brunstetter's Amish Friends Christmas Cookbook Spiral-bound – September 1, 2014

I fell in love with this cookbook as soon as I started going through it! It starts out with some stories, advise on planting, weeding, managing bugs in the garden and goes on to so much more. The recipes are wonderful and the photography in this book is gorgeous! There are chapters for salads, soups, main dishes, sides, deserts, snacks/extras, canning/preserving and even recipes for the freezer.I have a list of recipes I want to try and so I'll list a few of them here ~ Pumpkin cookies, Harvest Loaf, Bundt Zucchini Cake,Canning ~ Apple Pie Filling, Canning ~ Old Fashioned Apple Butter ... don't they all sound delicious?Ms. Brunstetter's Amish Friends Harvest Cookbook is a treasure trove of recipes!Thank you to Shilo Press, Barbour Publishing and Netgalley for the free gift of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Many great recipes here, Do not be put off by the "canning police". If you survived riding in the back window of a car, bicycle and skateboards without pads and helmets. You can survive canning the old way before the government got involved in every aspect of your life. I enjoyed reading the book very much.

Good recipes in this book

What a wonderful cookbook. To my pleasant surprise it was packed full of delightful stories of how the Amish celebrate the Christmas season. And so many really useful tips. I am going to be buying more to give as gifts.

I love to read, collect, and cook from recipe books and this one I would rate a 10 if I could. Enjoyed it very much and still using it to cook from.

The book looks pretty. I just received it so my review is based on looks! I will update again when I try a few recipes.Amish are well known for awesome preserves and canned foods. Although, I have to say I am nervous about some of the recipes. I had never heard of canned nuts or popcorn before, the recipes call for them to be canned in the oven. Even though they are dry goods this practice isn't recommended by US foodsafety.gov. On the opposite page is vegetable soup it says to can in a water bath for 2 hours. The majority of the ingredients are low acid so should be done in a pressure canner to kill botulism spores. Please be cautious when canning! To their credit, the author and editors state at the beginning of the canning section that the recipes are from home cooks and to use caution. The other recipes seem ok.Another thing that surprised me abut in the recipes was the use of processed ingredients. I was hoping for more from scratch cooking. Examples I noticed: Miracle Whip, Velveeta cheese (in several recipes), dry ranch dressing mix, lil smokies sausages, and cream of mushroom soup.In the canning they use a lot of Clear Jel and Perma-flo.In my mind I thought they would use all natural ingredients but that's not the case.However, there are many recipes that are all from scratch and whole ingredients.I am excited to try some of the recipes that are unlike anything I've seen before. For example:Dandelion GravyApple corn breadMamas red raspberry brewGinger AleThe beginning of the book contains gardening tips. I am excited about these as I have a large garden and preserve the majority of my families vegetable consumption for the year.I love the layout of the book and that it is spiral bound. It will be easy to use in the kitchen. It is indexed by key ingredients and by recipes by section.There is a section for salads, soups, main dishes, sides, desserts, snacks and extras, and preserving the harvest.

Liked the cook book but it was in shabby condition. Almost look like it was used. Supposed to be a gift for a friend.So disappointed.

Great recipes and amazing gardening tips.