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From: , NY

Joined: January 9th, 2010

Favorite cookbook: Cake Bible

Favorite recipe: Lemon Poppy Seed Pound Cake


Latest review:

March 24th, 2010

Lemon Poppy Seed-Sour Cream Cake from Rose's Heavenly Cakes

This is Rose's signature cake ( and mine) made larger and more flavorful. This version adds sour cream to the recipe, that gives it a wonderful mouthfeel. It has a rich buttery flavor, perfumed with lemon... read more >


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loretta's Bookshelf

106 book(s). Click the title of a book to start adding your recipe and book reviews.

TitleTagsRatings & Reviews

The French Laundry Cookbook

By Thomas Keller, Deborah Jones
Artisan - 1999


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 71 my recipe reviews 0

Barefoot Contessa How Easy Is That?: Fabulous Recipes & Easy Tips

By Ina Garten
Clarkson Potter - 2010


(30 recipe reviews)
owned by 49 my recipe reviews 0

Tea and Crumpets: Recipes and Rituals from Tea Rooms and Cafes

By Margaret Johnson, Leigh Beisch
Chronicle Books - 2009


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 6 my recipe reviews 0

Ad Hoc at Home

By Thomas Keller
Artisan - 2009


(252 recipe reviews)
owned by 147 my recipe reviews 0

Bon Appetit Weekend Entertaining: A Cookbook, Menu Planner & Entertaining Sourcebook for Occasions Large or Small, Casual or Elegant

By Bon Appetit Editors
Pantheon - 1999


(6 recipe reviews)
owned by 6 my recipe reviews 1 book review

Peter Reinhart's Artisan Breads Every Day

By Peter Reinhart
Ten Speed Press - 2009


(164 recipe reviews)
owned by 113 my recipe reviews 1

Jacques Torres' A Year in Chocolate: 80 Recipes for Holidays and Special Occasions

By Jacques Torres, Judith Choate
Stewart, Tabori & Chang - 2008


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 7 my recipe reviews 0

The Seafood Cookbook: Classic to Contemporary

By Pierre Franey, Bryan Miller, Lauren Jarrett
Times Books, a division of Random House Inc. - 1986


(2 recipe reviews)
owned by 3 my recipe reviews 0

Cooking Light Annual Recipes 2003

By
Oxmoor House - 2002


(3 recipe reviews)
owned by 11 my recipe reviews 0

Cooking Light Five Star Recipes: The Best of 10 Years

By Leisure Arts
Oxmoor House - 1997


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 6 my recipe reviews 0

Stew Leonard's Winning Recipes Cookbook

By Stew Leonard Jr.
Kimberly Press - 2005


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 1 my recipe reviews 0

Stew Leonard's You Can Do It! Cookbook

By Stew Leonard, Jr. Bryan Miller
Kimberly Press - 1998


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 2 my recipe reviews 0

The Hay Day Country Market Cookbook

By Kim Rizk
Workman Publishing Company - 1998


(1 recipe review)
owned by 10 my recipe reviews 1 book review

The Settlement Cookbook

By Simon Kander
Simon & Schuster - 1976


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 12 my recipe reviews 0

New York Cookbook: From Pelham Bay to Park Avenue, Firehouses to Four-Star Restaurants

By Molly O'Neill
Workman Publishing Company - 1992


(4 recipe reviews)
owned by 20 my recipe reviews 0

Another Blue Strawbery

By James Haller
Harvard Common Press - 1983


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 2 my recipe reviews 0 book review

The Blue Strawbery Cookbook: Cooking (Brilliantly) Without Recipes

By James Haller
Harvard Common Pr - 1978


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 2 my recipe reviews 0 book review

How to Grill: The Complete Illustrated Book of Barbecue Techniques

By Steven Raichlen
Workman Publishing Company - 2001


(2 recipe reviews)
owned by 20 my recipe reviews 1 book review

Pure Chocolate: Divine Desserts and Sweets from the Creator of Fran's Chocolates

By Fran Bigelow, Helene Siegel
Broadway - 2004


(2 recipe reviews)
owned by 6 my recipe reviews 1 book review

Best of Arizona: Recipes from Arizona's Favorite Resorts & Restaurants

By Marjorie Scaffidi
Treasure Chest Books - 1992


(1 recipe review)
owned by 1 my recipe reviews 1 book review

Great Good Food: Luscious Lower-Fat Cooking

By Julee Rosso
Three Rivers Press - 1993


(30 recipe reviews)
owned by 28 my recipe reviews 0

The Martha Stewart Living Cookbook

By Martha Stewart Living Magazine
Clarkson Potter - 2000


(4 recipe reviews)
owned by 21 my recipe reviews 3 book review

La Cucina Siciliana di Gangivecchio: Gangivecchio's Sicilian Kitchen

By Wanda Tornabene
Knopf - 1996


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 2 my recipe reviews 0

Lidia's Family Table: More Than 200 Fabulous Recipes to Enjoy Every Day-With Wonderful Ideas for Variations and Improvisations

By Lidia Matticchio Bastianich
Knopf - 2004


(3 recipe reviews)
owned by 25 my recipe reviews 0 book review

Essential Cake Decorator

By Janice Murfitt
Smithmark Publishers - 1994


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 2 my recipe reviews 0

A Passion for Chocolate

By Maurice Bernachon, Jean-Jacques Bernachon, Maria Guarnaschelli, Vincent Lee, Rose Levy Beranbaum
William Morrow & Company - 1989


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 6 my recipe reviews 0

Debbi Fields' Great American Desserts: 100 Mouthwatering Easy-to-Prepare Recipes

By Debbi Fields
Simon & Schuster - 2000


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 4 my recipe reviews 0

The Dessert Lover's Cookbook

By Marlene Sorosky
Harpercollins - 1989


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 1 my recipe reviews 0

1001 Cookie Recipes: The Ultimate A-To-Z Collection of Bars, Drops, Crescents, Snaps, Squares, Biscuits, and Everything That Crumbles

By Gregg R. Gillespie, Peter Barry
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers - 1995


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 32 my recipe reviews 0 book review

Bernard Clayton's Cooking Across America: Cooking With More Than 100 of North America's Best Cooks and 250 of Their Favorite Recipes

By Bernard Clayton
Simon & Schuster - 1993


(4 recipe reviews)
owned by 7 my recipe reviews 0 book review

Fannie Farmer Cookbook, 11th ed.

By Fannie Farmer (rev. Wilma Lord Perkins)
Little, Brown and Company - 1965


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 4 my recipe reviews 0

Four-Star Desserts

By Emily Luchetti
HarperCollins Publishers - 1996


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 5 my recipe reviews 0

The Professional Pastry Chef (3rd Edition)

By Bo Friberg
Wiley - 1995


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 2 my recipe reviews 0

Baking Bread: Old and New Traditions

By Beth Hensperger, Joyce Oudkerk
Chronicle Books - 1992


(1 recipe review)
owned by 5 my recipe reviews 1 book review

Good Housekeeping Illustrated Cookbook

By Zoe Coulson
Hearst Books - 1980


(10 recipe reviews)
owned by 12 my recipe reviews 10 book review

Amy's Bread

By Amy Scherber, Toy Kim Dupree
Cookbooks - 1996


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 6 my recipe reviews 0 book review

Cookies Unlimited

By Nick Malgieri
William Morrow Cookbooks - 2000


(1 recipe review)
owned by 16 my recipe reviews 0 book review

Great Cookies: Secrets to Sensational Sweets

By Carole Walter
Clarkson Potter - 2003


(1 recipe review)
owned by 18 my recipe reviews 0

The Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook

By Julee Rosso, Sheila Lukins, Sarah Leah Chase
Workman Publishing Company - 1985


(4 recipe reviews)
owned by 64 my recipe reviews 1 book review

The Silver Palate Cookbook

By Julee Rosso, Sheila Lukins, Michael McLaughlin
Workman Publishing Company - 1982


(42 recipe reviews)
owned by 80 my recipe reviews 15 book review

The Way to Cook

By Julia Child
Knopf - 1993


(3 recipe reviews)
owned by 62 my recipe reviews 1

Julia Child's Menu Cookbook

By Julia Child, E. S. Yntema
Random House/Wings Books - 1991


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 9 my recipe reviews 0

Giuliano Bugialli's Classic Techniques of Italian Cooking

By Giuliano Bugialli
Fireside - 1989


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 1 my recipe reviews 0

Alfred Portale's Gotham Bar and Grill Cookbook

By Alfred Portale
Broadway - 1997


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 4 my recipe reviews 0 book review

Marcella Cucina

By Marcella Hazan
William Morrow Cookbooks - 1997


(23 recipe reviews)
owned by 30 my recipe reviews 0

The Silver Spoon

By Phaidon Press
Phaidon Press - 2005


(3 recipe reviews)
owned by 78 my recipe reviews 0

Ducasse Flavors of France

By Alain Ducasse, Linda Dannenberg
Artisan - 2006


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 2 my recipe reviews 0

Celebrations, Italian Style: Recipes and Menus for Special Occasions and Seasons of the Year

By Mary Ann Esposito, Tomie dePaola
Hearst Books - 1995


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 5 my recipe reviews 0 book review

Gale Gand's Just a Bite: 125 Luscious Little Desserts

By Gale Gand, Julia Moskin, Tim Turner
Clarkson Potter - 2001


(0 recipe reviews)
owned by 11 my recipe reviews 0

How to Bake: Complete Guide to Perfect Cakes, Cookies, Pies, Tarts, Breads, Pizzas, Muffins,

By Nick Malgieri
William Morrow Cookbooks - 1995


(8 recipe reviews)
owned by 28 my recipe reviews 2 book review