Æbleskiver and More: A Sampling of Danish Recipes

This was another Christmas present for my wife who is half Danish. She had been wanting a Danish recipe book for a long time and as soon as she reviewed this one, she indicated it was perfect. The recipe book is not nearly as large as many cook books on the market, but according to her, it contains several recipes for very traditional Danish foods, such as fish, Æbleskiver, pork and much more.Based or her excitement and comments about this recipe book, I’d recommend it to anyone who is looking for some authentic and traditional Danish recipes.

While this little spiral bound collection of recipes does have "and More: A Sampling of Danish Recipes" in the title, someone chose to put "Aebleskiver" first. I was expecting a lot more recipes for those, perhaps a lot of suggestions about what could be added as filling. Now, if the title was switched, and "A Sampling of Danish Recipes" came first, I would have realized that there are only a few aebleskiver recipes included!

I bought this mostly because my mother-in-law has one and my husband likes some things out of it. But I've tried more than what she has made, and have enjoyed it so far. I won't make the quick aebleskiver (can't get Bisquick where I live), or the recipe for the festival (24 eggs and only one aebleskiver pan?!?). But the other aebleskiver recipes have either been tasty or look promising, and the main dishes and vegetable dishes I've tried so far have been good. Never would have thought to serve small potatoes in essentially a salted caramel sauce, but the Browned Small Potatoes are delicious.

I really like this book, and I don't understand so many people's negative reactions. Yet again people have failed to read the description for something, but really, I thought that since the title is: "Aebleskiver and MORE: A SAMPLING of Danish recipes" people would be able to figure out that there is other stuff in there. If you also look at the product details you can see that it is a very small book. I think this is a brilliant and fun idea because now all I have to do is take off the binding and I no longer have to transcribe all these recipes to index cards for my recipe box, since it has already been done for me! If you like buttery cookies, tarts, and other Scandinavian treats, this is a great little book. Some of the recipes aren't the best I've ever used (my grandmother's Danish bread recipes can't be compared with, after all), but all of them are still very good, and many of them are even great. With over 100 recipes for under $10, I think this would be a great gift and I think it is a clever way to introduce someone to the joys of making Danish foods and drinks.As for people's problem with the limited number of aebleskiver recipes, the point of aebleskivers is that they are portable little round "pancakes" that you can either fill with jams, fruit, etc while you make them, and/or dip them in fun jams and syrups. It is a SIMPLE recipe that you do not need many ingredients for, and you CUSTOMIZE them to your tastes by what you put with them. Just think about sandwiches, and you will see what I mean. Sandwiches are two pieces of bread with something inside of them, and there is almost no limit to the different kinds of sandwiches you can make, simply by filling them with different things. The are essentially PANCAKES, after all, and how many different recipes for pancakes do you need? I'm sorry, but part of the fun of aebleskivers is putting something in them and seeing how they turn out. Will sprinkles in the batter make them festive, or will they just turn out weird? If I put in pieces of a very juicy apple, how long should I cook them, and should I add more flour? Just like people enjoy experimenting on and tweaking a cookie/cake recipe, it is the PROCESS of making aebleskivers that is fun. There are, in my opinion, plenty of recipes for aebleskivers to try/tweak in this book, especially considering that I would be willing to buy this book just for the other Danish recipes and instructions included within.

I ordered this book, mainly to avoid shipping costs on the  Sante Cabin Kitchen Æbleskiver Pan  pan I ordered. What a great little book. I have a great recipe for Æbleskivers, but this book gives me a number of other options. I knew when I ordered it that it had much more than just Æbleskiver, and that was fine because I wanted some more Danish recipes.I will be buying more of these books to give to cousins and other family members. We're Danish (actually, I'm only half, but my cousins are 100%). In fact, some are from Elk Horn, which is featured in the book.If you're looking for a great little (and I mean that literally) book with some really good looking Danish recipes, look no further. This is it.**********I just re-read the other reviews. A couple mentioned they were looking more for Æbleskiver recipes. I mentioned that in my review, but decided to let you know how many there are. There are 8 Æbleskiver recipes. There are 109 other recipes for things such as breads, soups, drinks, cookies, etc. Remember, a big part of the title is "...and More A Sampling of Danish Recipes". I stand by my review, this is a great little book.

Great pan!Ready to make nice Easter Aebleskivers!Cast iron easy to season !Bless Bless all Viking cooks will love it !

The best way I could describe this is as a set of spiral bound recipe cards with a nice, glossy cover sheet. Even though it is small, I really like it. The paper and printing are very nice. I bought it primarily for the Ebelskiver recipes and there are a bunch of them so I'm happy. The spiral binding allows you to go to the recipe you want and have the whole thing lie nicely on the counter - unlike a traditional book binding which would always be slamming shut.

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