University of Wisconsin Press, 2015 Cloth: 978-0-299-30430-0 | eISBN: 978-0-299-30433-1 Library of Congress Classification TX773.B4145 2015 Dewey Decimal Classification 641.8609775
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
The Norske Nook, founded as a small-town café in 1973, is now a foursome of revered pie shrines in Osseo, Rice Lake, Eau Claire, and Hayward, Wisconsin. The Nook’s international fame grew from a tradition of Midwest home baking, informed by Scandinavian roots and enriched by the luscious ripe fruit and sumptuous sour creams and cream cheeses of America’s dairyland.
This cookbook features the restaurants’ award-winning baking: Scandinavian specialties, cheesecakes, tortes, cookies, muffins, and more than seventy recipes (and variations) for pie. More than fifty new pie recipes have been created by the Nook bakers since 1990, when Jerry Bechard purchased the Osseo café from founder Helen Myhre. The Norske Nook has won thirty-six blue ribbons at the National Pie Championships in Florida—including three in 2014, for Lemon Cream Cheese, Peaches and Cream, and Jamberry.
Gold Medal Winner, Cookbook, Foreword Reviews IndieFab Book of the Year Awards
Runner-up, Cookbooks/Crafts/Hobbies, Midwest Book Awards
“Outstanding” books for public & secondary school libraries from university presses, American Library Association
“Best of the Best” books for public libraries from university presses, American Library Association
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Jerry Bechard has owned the Norske Nook since 1990 and is a past winner of the Restaurateur of the Year award from the Wisconsin Restaurant Association. He also owns the Northwoods Brew Pub in Eau Claire and lives in Hayward, Wisconsin. Cindee Borton-Parker is the regional manager for the Norske Nook restaurants and bakeries in northwest Wisconsin and lives in New Auburn, Wisconsin. Both are avid lovers of pie.
REVIEWS
“This cookbook is a celebration of all of our pie and bakery recipes, with some memories, beautiful pictures of the pies, and a few instructional photos. After years of many requests for our recipes, we couldn’t disregard the demand from our local guests and our travelers to take another piece of Norske Nook pie home.”—Jerry Bechard and Cindee Borton-Parker
“Those famous Norske pies! [The authors] detail delicious graham cracker crusts and berry toppings, Dutch and praline-topped pies, meringue, apple and custard fillings and on to luscious muffins, cookies and puddings. The colorful full-page photos are hunger inducing.”—Shepherd Express
“Scandinavian sweet treats from four beloved Wisconsin cafes.”—New York Times Sunday Book Review online
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Jerry Bechard
Crusts
Pastry Pie Crusts
Unbaked Single Crust
Baked Single Crust
Double Crust
Chocolate Lined Pastry Crust
Chocolate Peanut Butter Lined Pastry Crust
Graham Cracker Pie Crust
Oreo Cookie Pie Crust
Graham Cracker Crust for Tortes
Nut Crust for Tortes
Oreo Cookie Cheesecake Crust
Graham Cracker Cheesecake Crust
Dutch and Praline-Topped Pies
Apple Trees to Apple Pies
Blueberry Crunch Pie
Cherry Crunch Pie
Harvest Apple Pie
Blackberry Crunch Pie
Jamberry Pie
Peach Raspberry Melba Pie
Peach Praline Pie
Dutch Apple Pie
Double-Crust Pies
Old-Fashioned Strawberry Pie
Apple Pie
Cherry Pie
Strawberry Rhubarb Pie
Mincemeat Pie with Warm
Rum Sauce
Caramel Apple Pie
Peach Pie
Rhubarb Pie
Peach Berry Pie
Cranberry Apple Pie
Blueberry Pie
Norwegian Berry Pie
Lingonberry Apple Pie
Candy Pies
My Sister Saves the National Pie Championships
Mounds Coconut Pie
Chocolate Mint Pie
Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie
Butterfinger Pie
Snickers Caramel Pie
Kaffe Mocha Pie
Berry Pies
Strawberry Pies on the Head
Raspberry, Blackberry, or Strawberry Pie
Cream Cheese Pies
Peaches and Cream Pie
Maple Raisin Pie
Coconut Pineapple Dream Pie
Lemon Cream Cheese Pie
Raspberry Cream Cheese Pie
Pecan Dream Pie
Strawberry Cream Cheese Pie
Blueberry Cream Cheese Pie
Pumpkin Cream Cheese Pie
Limon Pie
Blackberry Cream Cheese Pie
Apple Cream Cheese Pie
Lingonberry Apple Cream
Cheese Pie
Sour Cream Pies
Sour Cream Lingonberry Pie
Sour Cream Raspberry Pie
Sour Cream Strawberry Pie
Sour Cream Blackberry Pie
Raspberry White Chocolate Pie
Strawberry White Chocolate Pie
Sour Cream Apple Blueberry Pie
Sour Cream Peach Pie
Meringue Pies
Meringues, Shari, and Booms
Meringue
Coconut Meringue Pie
Rhubarb Cream Meringue Pie
Lemon Meringue Pie
Sour Cream Raisin Meringue Pie
Single-Crust Pies
Pecan Fudge Pie
Custard Pie
Lemon Poppy Seed Pie
Raisin Bread Pudding Pie with Vanilla Sauce 130
Pecan Stout Pie
Pecan Pie
Pumpkin Pie
Stirred Pudding Pies
Jerry, Flicka, and Butterscotch Pie
Chocolate Cream Pie
Banana Cream Pie
Butterscotch Pie
Frozen Pies
Cookies and Cream Pie
Butterscotch Mousse Pie
Northwoods Root Beer
Float Pie
Holiday Mint Pie
Amaretto Fudge Pie
Orange Dream Pie
Chocolate Mousse Pie
Sugar-Free Pies
Sugar-Free Rhubarb Pie
Sugar-Free Apple Pie
Sugar-Free Blueberry, Cherry,
and Peach Pie
Cheesecakes
A Story of My Sister Anita’s
Cheesecakes
Norske Nook Cheesecake
Chocolate Caramel Cheesecake
Pumpkin Cheesecake
Muffins
Cranberry Orange Muffins
Raisin Bran Muffins
Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins
Blueberry Muffins
Four Berry Cream Cheese Muffins
Strawberry Cream Cheese Muffins
Cookies
Mom, Cousin Carrie, and
Delicious Cookies
Peanut Butter Cookies
Molasses Gingerbread
Cookies
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Poppy Seed Cookies
Oatmeal Date-Filled Cookies
Sour Cream Sugar Cookies
Spritz Cookies
Norwegian Pepper Cookies
Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
Scandinavian Specialties
University of Wisconsin Press, 2015 Cloth: 978-0-299-30430-0 eISBN: 978-0-299-30433-1
The Norske Nook, founded as a small-town café in 1973, is now a foursome of revered pie shrines in Osseo, Rice Lake, Eau Claire, and Hayward, Wisconsin. The Nook’s international fame grew from a tradition of Midwest home baking, informed by Scandinavian roots and enriched by the luscious ripe fruit and sumptuous sour creams and cream cheeses of America’s dairyland.
This cookbook features the restaurants’ award-winning baking: Scandinavian specialties, cheesecakes, tortes, cookies, muffins, and more than seventy recipes (and variations) for pie. More than fifty new pie recipes have been created by the Nook bakers since 1990, when Jerry Bechard purchased the Osseo café from founder Helen Myhre. The Norske Nook has won thirty-six blue ribbons at the National Pie Championships in Florida—including three in 2014, for Lemon Cream Cheese, Peaches and Cream, and Jamberry.
Gold Medal Winner, Cookbook, Foreword Reviews IndieFab Book of the Year Awards
Runner-up, Cookbooks/Crafts/Hobbies, Midwest Book Awards
“Outstanding” books for public & secondary school libraries from university presses, American Library Association
“Best of the Best” books for public libraries from university presses, American Library Association
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Jerry Bechard has owned the Norske Nook since 1990 and is a past winner of the Restaurateur of the Year award from the Wisconsin Restaurant Association. He also owns the Northwoods Brew Pub in Eau Claire and lives in Hayward, Wisconsin. Cindee Borton-Parker is the regional manager for the Norske Nook restaurants and bakeries in northwest Wisconsin and lives in New Auburn, Wisconsin. Both are avid lovers of pie.
REVIEWS
“This cookbook is a celebration of all of our pie and bakery recipes, with some memories, beautiful pictures of the pies, and a few instructional photos. After years of many requests for our recipes, we couldn’t disregard the demand from our local guests and our travelers to take another piece of Norske Nook pie home.”—Jerry Bechard and Cindee Borton-Parker
“Those famous Norske pies! [The authors] detail delicious graham cracker crusts and berry toppings, Dutch and praline-topped pies, meringue, apple and custard fillings and on to luscious muffins, cookies and puddings. The colorful full-page photos are hunger inducing.”—Shepherd Express
“Scandinavian sweet treats from four beloved Wisconsin cafes.”—New York Times Sunday Book Review online
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Jerry Bechard
Crusts
Pastry Pie Crusts
Unbaked Single Crust
Baked Single Crust
Double Crust
Chocolate Lined Pastry Crust
Chocolate Peanut Butter Lined Pastry Crust
Graham Cracker Pie Crust
Oreo Cookie Pie Crust
Graham Cracker Crust for Tortes
Nut Crust for Tortes
Oreo Cookie Cheesecake Crust
Graham Cracker Cheesecake Crust
Dutch and Praline-Topped Pies
Apple Trees to Apple Pies
Blueberry Crunch Pie
Cherry Crunch Pie
Harvest Apple Pie
Blackberry Crunch Pie
Jamberry Pie
Peach Raspberry Melba Pie
Peach Praline Pie
Dutch Apple Pie
Double-Crust Pies
Old-Fashioned Strawberry Pie
Apple Pie
Cherry Pie
Strawberry Rhubarb Pie
Mincemeat Pie with Warm
Rum Sauce
Caramel Apple Pie
Peach Pie
Rhubarb Pie
Peach Berry Pie
Cranberry Apple Pie
Blueberry Pie
Norwegian Berry Pie
Lingonberry Apple Pie
Candy Pies
My Sister Saves the National Pie Championships
Mounds Coconut Pie
Chocolate Mint Pie
Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie
Butterfinger Pie
Snickers Caramel Pie
Kaffe Mocha Pie
Berry Pies
Strawberry Pies on the Head
Raspberry, Blackberry, or Strawberry Pie
Cream Cheese Pies
Peaches and Cream Pie
Maple Raisin Pie
Coconut Pineapple Dream Pie
Lemon Cream Cheese Pie
Raspberry Cream Cheese Pie
Pecan Dream Pie
Strawberry Cream Cheese Pie
Blueberry Cream Cheese Pie
Pumpkin Cream Cheese Pie
Limon Pie
Blackberry Cream Cheese Pie
Apple Cream Cheese Pie
Lingonberry Apple Cream
Cheese Pie
Sour Cream Pies
Sour Cream Lingonberry Pie
Sour Cream Raspberry Pie
Sour Cream Strawberry Pie
Sour Cream Blackberry Pie
Raspberry White Chocolate Pie
Strawberry White Chocolate Pie
Sour Cream Apple Blueberry Pie
Sour Cream Peach Pie
Meringue Pies
Meringues, Shari, and Booms
Meringue
Coconut Meringue Pie
Rhubarb Cream Meringue Pie
Lemon Meringue Pie
Sour Cream Raisin Meringue Pie
Single-Crust Pies
Pecan Fudge Pie
Custard Pie
Lemon Poppy Seed Pie
Raisin Bread Pudding Pie with Vanilla Sauce 130
Pecan Stout Pie
Pecan Pie
Pumpkin Pie
Stirred Pudding Pies
Jerry, Flicka, and Butterscotch Pie
Chocolate Cream Pie
Banana Cream Pie
Butterscotch Pie
Frozen Pies
Cookies and Cream Pie
Butterscotch Mousse Pie
Northwoods Root Beer
Float Pie
Holiday Mint Pie
Amaretto Fudge Pie
Orange Dream Pie
Chocolate Mousse Pie
Sugar-Free Pies
Sugar-Free Rhubarb Pie
Sugar-Free Apple Pie
Sugar-Free Blueberry, Cherry,
and Peach Pie
Cheesecakes
A Story of My Sister Anita’s
Cheesecakes
Norske Nook Cheesecake
Chocolate Caramel Cheesecake
Pumpkin Cheesecake
Muffins
Cranberry Orange Muffins
Raisin Bran Muffins
Lemon Poppy Seed Muffins
Blueberry Muffins
Four Berry Cream Cheese Muffins
Strawberry Cream Cheese Muffins
Cookies
Mom, Cousin Carrie, and
Delicious Cookies
Peanut Butter Cookies
Molasses Gingerbread
Cookies
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Poppy Seed Cookies
Oatmeal Date-Filled Cookies
Sour Cream Sugar Cookies
Spritz Cookies
Norwegian Pepper Cookies
Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
Scandinavian Specialties