Scandinavian

I consider this book a “must” for those who care about the cooking of Scandinavia. But it is, and has been for years, more a reference book than a cookbook. The outline of each recipe is a bit too vague, but the book, over all, is informative and worth browsing through for source material.

This is generally considered by the finest Swedish cooks in this country to be the best recipe book dealing with Swedish cooking ever printed in English. It is not generally available in bookstores and, as of this writing, can only be procured at secondhand sources that deal in cookbooks. The recipes are well outlined and easy to follow. Jenny Åkerström owned and managed the most famous cooking school in Stockholm, or for that matter all of Sweden. It was customary in some parts of Europe for the children of royalty to learn the art of cooking and housekeeping and the three princesses who attended her school and to whom the book is dedicated are Princess Margaret of Denmark, Crown Princess Martha of Norway, and Crown Princess Astrid of Belgium.