Want to cook like a Nova Scotian? Do you reminisce about the food you ate while visiting Peggy’s Cove? Looking for recipes based on menus served aboard the Titantic?
Just in time for the holiday season, Halifax Public Libraries and Formac Publishing of Halifax have officially launched the Cloud Cookbooks website.
The site allows recipe seekers to access more than 3,000 recipes from 40 local cookbooks.
Although the books are all recent publications, the recipes may help remind family historians of their family and ancestors from Nova Scotia.
The website can be searched by Nova Scotia cuisine, leading chefs and restaurants, cooking for a crowd, healthy and regional cooking, or even cooking on a budget.
Users who type a search by ingredient, dish or prep time are brought to a selection of matching recipes.
Titanic: The Cookbook includes ideas for setting the early 20th-century scene, such as what to wear, music to play, invitations, and recipes from the “great era of ocean liners.”
Peggy’s Cove Cooking is a collection of 60 traditional recipes from the South Shore of Nova Scotia, including Peggy’s Cove, Lunenburg, Mahone Bay, Chester, Shelburne and many other historic communities along the Atlantic coast. The recipes are described as “down home cooking,” from cooking the perfect boiled lobster to creamy clam chowder to Blueberry Grunt.
In Out of New Nova Scotia Kitchens, Craig Flinn offers new ways for the cook at home to make Nova Scotian classics taste even better. Included in the collection: The Halifax Donair, The Ultimate Seafood Chowder, Lobster Rolls, Fish Battered Three Ways — as well as new twists on classics like Scallop and Asparagus Carbonara, Kale Caesar Salad, and the East Coast Reuben Sandwich.
The website is not limited to Nova Scotian cuisine. In the Regional Cooking section are cookbooks from Pacific, Central, and Atlantic Canada, and a few books with international recipes.
Bon appétit!
WONDERFUL!!!!
I would love to search out some of these recipes
Thank you!