A Look Inside...
Fruits of the Midwest - A Cookbook and Guide from Harvest to
Table is organized to make it easy to find the information
and recipes you're looking for.
A Quick Look at the Apples Chapter...
The
Apples
chapter has content typical of what you'll find in each major fruit
chapter.
Here are some images and descriptions from that chapter, plus
links to actual pages excerpted from the book.
Like each chapter, this one begins with a detailed
table of contents, to help you quickly find the section you want.

Next comes general information about the fruit. For
apples this includes a discussion of apple types, characteristics,
nutritional value, and the suitability of
popular apple varieties for cooking, baking, apple sauce, fresh
eating, and so on. Here's part of a table of apple variety
characteristics from the Apples chapter:

Then begins
several pages of information on
harvesting,
storing, and processing apples--canning, freezing, drying, and so on. And after that
come the recipes sections.
Click on the links below to see actual page excerpts from
various parts of the Apples chapter (each of these will open in
a separate window).
The following excerpts are Copyright © Flagship
Technologies, Inc., 2009. All rights reserved.
There are 30 pages of apple recipes--more than 45 recipes for apples
alone!
Altogether, Fruits of the Midwest - A Cookbook and Guide from Harvest to
Table has...
More than 250
kitchen-tested fruit recipes!
More Excerpts

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Click on the links below to see more excerpts from various parts of the book, to illustrate the variety and breadth of content you'll find.
(Each of these opens in a separate window.)
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The following excerpts are Copyright © Flagship
Technologies, Inc., 2009. All rights reserved.
Handy Reference Features
There's a simple main Table of Contents in the front of
the book. (Each chapter has its own detailed Table of Contents, as
shown above for the Apples chapter.)

Throughout the book, gray "tips boxes" provide
general, useful information or explanations which assist with the surrounding recipes.
Here's an example:
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The detailed Index in the back of the book includes lots of subject
keywords and lists every recipe by name, making it easy to find your
favorites.
Here's a fragment of the Index, showing how it is arranged: