Wild and Wonderful Cranberries

Janet Arnett is the former campus manager of adult education at Ontario’s Georgian College. She is the author of Antiques and Collectibles: Starting Small, The Grange at Knock, and 673 Ways to Save Money.

For this series of cookbooks, Webber and Woolsey draw on their
experiences feeding guests at hunting and fishing lodges on Hudson Bay,
near Churchill, Manitoba.

Each volume contains a selection of varied recipes, an introduction,
and numerous snippets of relevant information. The cranberry and
blueberry books contain recipes for muffins, cakes, pies, syrups,
vinegars, chutneys, pancakes, bagels or bread, juice, jam and jelly.
Wild and Wonderful Goose and Game covers a wider range with recipes for
goose, duck, caribou, moose, and deer.

There’s nothing instant about theses recipes. The authors and/or
their family members picked the berries and shot the geese, then dried
the berries, gutted the geese and smoked the meat before starting to
cook or bake. So don’t expect cake-mix and canned-soup short cuts.

Given the setting, the recipes are surprisingly rich and sumptuous,
making the most of spices and luxury touches such as pecans, white
chocolate, and whipping cream. Although small, the books each pack in 35
or more recipes. Both metric and imperial measures are given and the
method is always direct and easy to follow.