A total of 45 delicious cake recipes for everything from devil's food to angel's food, from marble to pound, accompany duotone photos that provide a nostalgic look at mid-20th-century America. The recipes for cakes, cupcakes, brownies, and more are easy for today's home cooks to follow.
This cookbook shows how to get your five-a-day in a whole range of delicious ways. Find out about over 250 different fruits and vegetables, from the well-known potato, squash and apple, to the exotic loquat, cardoon and loofah. Photographs are paired with detailed descriptions and over 200 recipes.
This comprehensive guide to preserving fruits includes recipes for jams, jellies, marmalades, fruit curds, butters and cheeses, and sweet preserved fruits. The introduction features a detailed guide to ingredients and equipment, including advice on choosing and preparing fruit, how to sterilise jars, and how to pot, seal and label preserves. It also fully explains all the techniques, from testing for pectin content and making pectin stock to using a jelly bag. The recipes include traditional classics, such as Strawberry Jam and Lemon Curd, and exciting new ideas, such as Clementine and Lemon Balm Jelly and Cherry-berry Conserve. There are over 75 preserves to choose from, and each is shown in step-by-step photographs, with a stunning picture of the finished result, making this the perfect book for both the beginner and the more experienced cook. Maggie Mayhew is a freelance food writer and home economist, contributing to a number of women’s magazines and has written several books, including (with Kate Whiteman) Fruit, an A-Z reference guide to buying and cooking with fruit from around the world. Maggie was Deputy Food & Wine Editor of Living magazine for five years. She lives in Gloucestershire.
There is nothing more satisfying than stocking the shelves of your store cupboard with your own preserves, and this book is the ultimate guide. A detailed introduction covers equipment, basic methods and techniques needed. There then follows 150 fabulous recipes: try the delicious Wild Strawberry and Rose Petal Conserve, which goes perfectly with fresh crusty bread, or Mango and Papaya Relish, an unusual accompaniment to a cold meat buffet. And you can enhance your repertoire with recipes for curds, cheeses, sauces and mustards. Beautifully illustrated and with easy-to-follow instructions, this is an essential source book for any kitchen.
Get your oven gloves on and your whisks and blenders at the ready, and whip up a sumptuous selection of desserts for all your family and friends to enjoy. This book contains a good selection of over 100 traditional dessert recipes.
This book features classic recipes for the ultimate home-made preserve. It is a fabulous introduction to making sweet and tangy marmalades including wonderful ways to use them in the kitchen. It includes classic preserves such as Oxford Marmalade, St Clement's Marmalade and Lemon and Ginger Marmalade, as well as more unusual combinations like Tangerine and Lemon Grass Marmalade, and Peach and Kumquat Marmalade. It also features recipes that include marmalade such as Bitter Marmalade Chocolate Loaf, Marmalade Sticky Squares, and Marmalade and Soy Roast Duck. A useful introductory section provides information on ingredients, equipment and preserving techniques. It is illustrated with stunning photographs by Craig Robertson of practical steps and sumptuous final dishes. Each recipe has a full nutritional breakdown. Whether spread liberally over freshly buttered toast, poured over a steamed pudding, used as a meat glaze or eaten straight from the jar, nothing can beat the unique bittersweet taste of home-made marmalade. Traditionally made with citrus fruits, this little book will also introduce you to new fruit combinations such as cranberry, pomelo, pumpkin, pineapple and lemon grass, and includes recipes with marmalade as a key ingredient. The beautiful photographs are sure to inspire and the easy-to-follow instructions guarantee successful results every time.
This is a comprehensive guide to the fruits of the world, with identification to varieties presented in full-colour. Guidelines are given for preparing, preserving and cooking fruit, and over 100 recipes are included.
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