Just as a homemade apple pie is heaped with luscious fruit, Apple Country Cooking by Patricia B. Mitchell brims with marvelous apple recipes. The pleasant-to-read narrative includes the story of John Chapman (AKA Johnny Appleseed).Favorite old recipes like "Crazy Crust Apple Pie" and "Dried Apple Cake," plus unusual recipes like "Pioneer Pumpkin-Apple Butter Pie" and "Epps's Apple-Banana-Bran Muffins" make this a superb book.Patricia B. Mitchell began foodwriting in the early 1970s as a contributor to The Community Standardmagazine in New Orleans. Since 1986 she has authored more than one hundred titles on food and lifestylehistory, with well over three-quarters of a million copies sold.