Stevia Sweet Recipes: Sugar-Free Naturally! by Jeffrey Goettemoeller
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Book Reviews of Stevia Sweet Recipes: Sugar-Free Naturally!
Book Review: Wonderful everyday recipes
Summary: 5 Stars
User friendly. Many everyday recipes. Lots of tips for success.
Mainly uses Stevia Extract powder.
Book Review: Stevia Sweet Recipies
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased this book as a gift. The recipient said it was great. I may get one for myself too.Book Review: Great book
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is very helpful in the use of stevia. The recipes are great!Book Review: Observation of the author or HONEST NUTRITION
Summary: 3 Stars
This author has a serious arithmetic deficiency resulting in sweet, SWEET, recipes. An oatmeal recipe uses 1/2 tsp of stevia extract, which at 200 times sweetness as claimed on the back cover, would be the equivalent of 100 tsp sugar. WOW! No, the 200 times is by weight, and stevia is a very light powder, but still that would be perhaps 20 times too much. The amount used for oatmeal is as much as I have used to sweeten a 3-quart pot of rhubarb. I use only sprinkles of stevia, not teaspoons.
Stevia leaf is listed as 10 to 15 times as sweeet as sugar, and extract at 150 to 300. Recipes call for three times as much leaf as extract. A tsp of extract is claimed equivalent to 1 cup of sugar, which figures out to be 48 times as sweet. Again, the difference would be partly explained by the lightness of stevia extract, with powdered leaf being somewhat heavier.
Many people use a liquid extract, not mentioned in this book, so they would need to make a guess at the equivalent amount to use.
Also not mentioned is that the most common source of stevia is the expensive packets in the grocery stores, which have a large amount of filler with a little stevia.
Not mentioned is the herbal flavor of the leaf, with a little still in the extract. This can be a problem, or an attractive new flavor. Unless covered by other strong flavors, stevia gives a different flavor.
With less stevia than called for, these recipes might be very good for people like me who are not super-sweetness addicts.
Book Review: Stevia -not so sweet recipes
Summary: 3 Stars
This is not a bad cookbook, but it is a lot of work to make most of the dishes in it. The recipes are very homey and old fashioned. I also found out that I don't really like the taste of stevia, so that doesn't help either.