The Anne of Green Gables Cookbook

The Anne of Green Gables Cookbook is a 1985 book written by L. M. Montgomery's granddaughter Kate Macdonald.

Dedication
"FOR MY DAD"

Book description
Inspired by the most famous of all Canadian children's books, L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, this cookbook combines easy step-to-step recipes with charming watercolours of Anne and her friends and quotations from three of the ever-popular Anne books. Never before have good things to eat and drink been so successfully derived from cooking episodes in children's literature. From 'Poetical Egg Salad Sandwiches' to 'Anne's Liniment Cake' and 'Diana Barry's Favourite Raspberry Cordial', these delicious treats will be fun to make&mdash;and they'll be sure to turn out well because they were kitchen-tested by a twelve-year-old who had perfect results!

Contents

 * Introduction (page 4)
 * "There, there, never mind your kissing nonsense. I'd sooner see you doing strictly as you're told. As for cooking, I mean to begin giving you lessons in that some of these days. But you're so feather-brained, Anne, I've been waiting to see if you'd sober down a little and learn to be steady before I begin. You've got to keep your wits about you in cooking and not stop in the middle of things to let your thoughts rove all over creation." &mdash;
 * Cooking Tips (page 6)
 * Cooking Terms (page 7)
 * Cowcumber Boats (page 9)
 * "You must be real tired and hungry. I'll do the best for you in the way of tea but I warn you not to expect anything but bread and butter and some cowcumbers." &mdash;
 * Splendid Lettuce Salad (page 10)
 * "'Oh, Anne, mayn't I help you cook the dinner?' implored Diana. 'You know I can make splendid lettuce salad.'" &mdash;
 * Thousand Island Dressing (page 11)
 * Thick and Creamy Vegetable Soup (page 12)
 * "One o'clock came ... but no Priscilla or Mrs Morgan. Anne was in an agony. Everything was done to a turn and the soup was just what soup should be, but couldn't be depended on the remain so for any length of time." &mdash;
 * Saucy Chicken (page 15)
 * "Then the girls tripped out to the kitchen, which was filled with appetizing odors emanating from the oven, where the chickens we already sizzling splendidly." &mdash;
 * Diana Barry's Favourite Raspberry Cordial (page 16)
 * "But it isn't good manners to tell your company what you are going to give them to eat, so I won't tell you what she said we could have to drink. Only it begins with an r and a c and it's a bright red color. I love bright red drinks, don't you? They taste twice as good as any other color." &mdash;
 * Poetical Egg Salad Sandwiches (page 18)
 * "The girls sat down by the roots and did full justice to Anne's dainties, even the unpoetical sandwiches being greatly appreciated by hearty, unspoiled appetites sharpened by all the fresh air and exercise they had enjoyed." &mdash;
 * Old-Fashioned Lemonade (page 19)
 * "Anne had brought glasses and lemonade for her guests, but for her own part drank cold brook water from a cup fashioned out of birch bark ... Anne thought it more appropriate to the occasion than lemonade." &mdash;
 * Afternoon Ruby Tea Biscuits (page 22)
 * "Mrs Rachel and Marilla sat comfortably in the parlor while Anne got the tea and made hot biscuits that were light and white enough to defy even Mrs Rachel's criticism."&mdash;
 * Miss Ellen's Pound Cake (page 24)
 * "'I wish I could get Miss Ellen's recipe for pound cake,' sighed Aunt Chatty. 'She's promised it to me time and again but it never comes. It's an old English family recipe. They're so exclusive about their recipes.'" &mdash;
 * Coconut Macaroons (page 25)
 * ''"No, thank you, Kate, I won't have any more tea ... well, maybe a macaroon. They don't lie heavy on the stomach, but I'm afraid I've et far too much."' &mdash;
 * Maritime Gingersnaps (page 26)
 * "You'll put down the old brown tea set. But you can open the little crock of cherry preserves. It's time it was being used anyhow&mdash;I believe it's beginning to work. Any you can cut some fruit-cake and have some of the cookies and snacks." &mdash;
 * Tantalizing Raspberry Tarts (page 28)
 * "The little girls of Avonlea always pooled their lunches, and to eat three raspberry tarts all alone or even to share them with only one's best chum would have forever and ever branded as 'awful mean' the girl who did it. And yet, when the tarts were divided among ten girls you just got enough to tantalize you." &mdash;
 * Orange Angel Cake (page 30)
 * "Rebecca Dew has been making all my favorite dishes for a week now ... she even devoted ten eggs to angel-cake twice ... and using the 'company china'." &mdash;
 * Orange Glaze (page 31)
 * Mrs Irving's Delicious Shortbread (page 32)
 * "'Of course I'll stay to tea,' said Anne gaily. 'I was dying to be asked. My mouth has been watering for some more of your grandma's delicious shortbread ever since I had tea here before.'" &mdash;
 * Light and Creamy Vanilla Ice Cream (page 34)
 * "I have never tasted ice cream. Diana tried to explain what it was like, but I guess ice cream is one of those things that are beyond imagination." &mdash;
 * "And we had the ice cream. Words fail me to describe that ice cream. Marilla, I assure you it was sublime." &mdash;
 * Chocolate Caramels (page 36)
 * "I had one chocolate caramel once two years ago and it was simply delicious. I've often dreamed since then that I had a lot of chocolate caramels, but I always wake up just when I'm going to eat them." &mdash;
 * Anne's Liniment Cake (page 38)
 * "Mercy on us, Anne, you've flavoured that cake with anodyne liniment. I broke the liniment bottle last week and poured what was left into an old empty vanilla bottle. I suppose it's partly my fault&mdash;I should have warned you&mdash;but for pity's sake, why couldn't you have smelled it?" &mdash;
 * Creamy Butter Frosting (page 39)
 * Chocolate Goblin's Food Cake (page 40)
 * "I just grow cold when I think of my layer cake. Oh, Diana, what if it shouldn't be good! I dreamed last night that I was chased all around by a fearful goblin with a big layer cake for a head." &mdash;
 * Chocolate Fudge Frosting (page 42)
 * Creamy Butterscotch Pudding (page 43)
 * "I wish people could live on pudding. Why can't they, Marilla? I want to know." &mdash;
 * Marilla's Plum Pudding (page 46)
 * "Everything went right until I saw Marilla coming with the plum pudding in one hand and the pitcher of pudding sauce, warmed up, in the other. Diana, that was a terrible moment. I remembered everything and I just stood up in my place and shrieked out, 'Marilla, you mustn't use that pudding sauce. There was a mouse drowned in it. I forgot to tell you before.' Oh, Diana, I shall never forget that awful moment if I live to be a hundred." &mdash;
 * Caramel Pudding Sauce (page 48)
 * "Diana, fancy if you can my extreme horror at finding a mouse drowned in that pudding sauce!" &mdash;