Dairy Hollow House Soup and Bread Cookbook by Crescent Dragonwagon

CRESCENT DRAGONWAGON IS THE ALICE WATERS OF THE OZARKS . . .

turn"ing" out a nightly stream of creations wherein the best of country and city converge. -House Beautiful

Consistently rated one of America’s ten best country inns, Dairy Hollow House in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, is celebrated for a unique cuisine built on such traditional country ingredients as farm fresh chicken, wild mushrooms, greens, dried beans, and summer’s berries. Now in over 200 recipes, chef and owner Crescent Dragonwagon shares all her soup-making, bread-baking, and salad-tossing wisdom in a cookbook that’s as gutsy and distinctive as a steaming bowl of gumbo-in five variations. Welcome.

Along with being an innkeeper and chef, Crescent Dragonwagon is a cooking teacher, award-winning children’s book writer, and author of four cookbooks including THE DAIRY HOLLOW HOUSE COOKBOOK. She and her husband, Neal Shank, live at the innkeeper’s house at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.

A SEASON OF SOUPS . . .

FALL

 Chicken Soup with Forest Mushrooms

 Mussel Soup Dublin

 Autumn Cream of Onion Soup with Brandy and Cider

 RosS and Apple Velvet Soup

WINTER

 Deep December Cream of Root Soup

 Wintery Chicken and Pasta Soup

 Hillbilly Many-Bean Soup

 Winter Borscht . la Vielle Russe

SPRING

 Asparagus and White Wine Soup

 Chicken and Rice Soup with Fresh Spring Vegetables

 Chilled Strawberry Soup with CrSme Fraiche

 Gingered Fresh Pea Soup with Snow Peas and Water Chestnuts

SUMMER

 Chilled Corn Chowder with Dill and Scallions

 Gazpacho Rosa

 Peach Soup with Almonds

 Augusta’s Chilled Tomato Soup with Basil Cream

AND A BASKET OF BREADS

 Herbed Mezzaluna Bread

 Skillet-sizzled Buttermilk Cornbread

 Scotch Baps

 Slightly Fanatic Whole Grain Bread

 Custom-Made Biscuits As You Like Them

 Rosemary Focaccia