Austrian Cooking and Baking

by Gretel Beer

Book Overview

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Austrians like to eat well, and what they like to eat best is dessert. After a delicious cauliflower soup, and a great Wiener schnitzel with nockerl and cucumber salad, they always have room for an incredible dessert -- Sachertorte, apple strudel, or Guglhupf, just to name a few. For this cookbook Gretel Beer has collected authentic recipes for these and many other...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486232204
• ISBN13: 9780486232201
• Release Date: June 1975
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Hard to read

The layout wasn't user friendly and the ingredients I knew were not easy to come buy. Yes, I understand this is a Austrian cookbook, but the terms were definitely from Austrian as well instead of using words like sour cream or beets, they use the Austrian term with English lettering. Super confusing.

Authentic Austrian Cooking

This small book is chock full of Austrian recipes. As I was told, my grandmother from Austria regularly cooked these meals from scratch. Unfortunately, the recipes were not put down on paper to pass on through the generations. If you think boiled meat sounds frightening, think again. Purchase this book and prepare Tafelspitz and your taste buds will never stop thanking you for it!

You can gain weight just reading this book, but your mouth will be happy!

A passionate home cook that has been honing her cooking skills for the last 25 years, concentrating on Italian cooking for the last 10 years, writes this review. My favorite cookbooks are "The Professional Chef" by the Culinary Institute and "Culinary Artistry". With more than 500 cookbooks in my collection I am usually disappointed in my recent cookbook acquisitions. This particular book is on loan from an Austrian friend, whose two brothers are chefs in Austria. Given that a woman born and raised in Austria thinks the recipes in this book are authentic I have to assume that she knows more than the reviewer that disagrees. The book is outlines as follows: 1. I'd like to explain 2. Soups and their Garnishes 3. Fish 4. Meat, Game and Poultry 5. Some Cold Dishes 6. Vegetables 7. Salads 8. Savoury Sauces 9. Dumplings and the Like 10. Desserts - Hot and Cold - including Sweet Sauces 11. Cakes, Pastries and Biscuits 12. Gateaux and Icings Before I review the book, I must say that if you are on a diet, this is not the book for you. I think that you could gain weight just reading this book. However, if you are a fan of desserts, WOW what a book! The first chapter the author explains the difference in some of the typical ingredients of Austria. She also provides a table that translates the European Gas Marks into degrees, which I do not see very often in foreign cookbooks. The garnishes for the soup alone are worth the cost of the book. I have never seen such variation in noodles and dumplings. And then, there are the schnitzel recipes. Can you say yummy? Where do you even begin talking about how wonder a well-made schnitzel can be? Makes me long for Berghoff's Restaurant in Chicago, an institution that is now gone. The Austrians apparently have their own version of Risi Bisi, which I was certain was Venetian. But maybe I am incorrect. The difference between the two versions seems to be that the Austrian's do not use Arborio rice. The Dessert sections are absolutely amazing. The Austrians have taken dessert making to a new level. Each recipe is more mouthwatering than the next. There is a recipe for Strudel dough, and every Austrian dessert that I could think of. If you love desserts, these chapters make the book worth buying alone. Overall, I would highly recommend this book to anyone that loves Austrian food, or just good food. I borrowed this copy from an Austrian friend, but I will be ordering my own copy.

Austrian chef tested this book and cooked 2/3 of recipes

I am an Austrian chef and very interested in cookbooks; especially books that are written in English, for they are read worldwide and so influence what people think of Austrian cuisine, and how they cook if they want to cook Austrian. (...) All in all that book is worth the money, most recipes are quite original, and the instructions are good. Photos would be helpful. For this price I would buy it again.

Charming little cookbook

This book has back to back recipes and no pictures, which I found refreshing! It contains recipes for things I remember my grandmother had made but had never written down. I found it a jackpot of the really heart warming recipes that I thought I'd never get a chance to reproduce for my family and would heartily recommend it to others who want a no frills, sensible old style German/Austrian cookbook. The old family favourites like Salzburger Nockerln are certain to get you baking, even if the Lung Strudel never gets a fair go.....Enjoy.