Tea Time Delights Cookbook


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Tea time has been a long-standing tradition among the British, and many Americans also partake in this enjoyable pastime. Traditional high tea is always served with wonderful pastries and finger foods along with the hostess’s choice of delicious tea. Inside Tea Time Delights Cookbook, you will find a compilation of delicate yet tantalizing recipes that will fit perfectly with your favorite tea. Tea Time Delights Cookbook is another excellent edition in the Cookbook Delights Series brought to you by author and cook Karen Jean Matsko Hood. The beginner cook and the accomplished chef alike will appreciate the easy use of this cookbook. The ingredients in each recipe are readily available at any grocer or vendor site. Hood brings us this masterful edition to keep at your fingertips for whenever you decide to celebrate tea time with your family and guests. Destined to be an essential reference on your kitchen library shelf, you may want to pick up a copy for that other chef on your gift-giving list!




Marguerite Patten's 100 Top Teatime Treats


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England’s premier food maven shares recipes for cakes and dainties designed to make teatime sparkle. Only the most hardened dieter can resist the pleasures of afternoon tea. Its enjoyment, whether it is a simple slice of home-baked cake or dainty sandwiches followed by scones oozing with jam and cream, is part of our culture and is a tradition acted out each and every day in tea-rooms up and down the country. This then is the perfect book for all tea-time lovers, with over 100 recipes chosen by the un-crowned queen of British cookery, Marguerite Patten, and is published as a tribute to and celebration of Marguerite’s 90th year. There are recipes for cakes, breads, biscuits, sandwiches, and savories from England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland as well as recipes from teatimes around the world. But teatime isn’t teatime without a pot of tea, so the book also traces the history of Britain’s national beverage with a guide to all the different blends and styles available.




The Great British Book of Baking


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Inspired by The Great British Bake Off? Learn how to bake over 120 delicious recipes in this ultimate baking book and official tie-in to the first BBC series. This book takes us on a tour of the very best in baking our nation has to offer - from Eccles cakes to Cornish pasties, Chelsea buns to Scottish gingerbread. Over 120 classic recipes, as well as numerous adaptations and suggestions, cover the whole range of baking skills from sweet jam tarts to savoury game pie. These are recipes that have been passed through the generations, as well as those from the Bake Off contestants. With trips to notable landmarks from baking history - Melton Mowbray and Sandwich among the more famous, as well as locally loved secrets from towns and villages around the country - the book highlights the importance of baking as part of our national heritage. Whether you want to try your hand at the delicate art of petticoat tails shortbread or dish up a hearty steak pie to a hungry family, you will be looking between the pages of The Great British Book of Baking time and time again, packed full of the very best recipes from around the British Isles. Chapters include: - Biscuits and Teatime Treats - Bread - Tarts and Flans - Pies - Cakes - Puddings - Fancy Pastries - PLUS invaluable tips from the judges and an introduction from Mel and Sue! Get your wooden spoons at the ready!




The Tiny Baker


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Enter a whimsical world, created in vivid detail with stunning illustrations by Alison Jay and clever, lyrical rhymes. Insect customers clamor to dine at the Tiny Baker’s cafe, but when the ladybug chefs fly off and upend the pristine bakery’s kitchen, the Tiny Baker learns an important lesson about friendship.




A Little Book of English Teas


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Afternoon tea is an English ritual, a social as well as culinary affair. A Little Book of English Teas presents an exquisite array of afternoon tea fare, from dainty sandwiches and "biscuits" to heartier muffins and cakes. Traditional English recipes are given for such delights as Egg and Watercress Sandwiches, Lancashire Cheese Scones, Florentines, Maids of Honor, Crumpets, and many other favorites. Each recipe is accompanied by a delightful full-color illustration.




English Teatime Treats


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Sandra guarantees: No electric mixers or food gadgets, no rubbing in or rolling out, and no pile of cleaning up. You need just a saucepan, your cup measures and a pan for the oven. And many recipes go from measure to munch in less than 30 minutes! Would you love to bake an English Teatime Treat recipe, but think it would take ages and you just don't have the time? Do you feel that you don't really know where to start in baking something from scratch? Do you dread all the cleaning up? This revolutionary and powerful cookbook will transform your cooking life! This cookbook challenges everything you've been told about baking and opens your eyes to the easy way to create something amazing from scratch. You won't need a cake mix to bake an easy cake! This book will enable you to cook like never before! Having studied Chemistry in college, Sandra has carefully researched the amazing processes that transform simple ingredients into mouth-watering treats. She has re-engineered complicated recipes to be really easy to prepare. In this book you will create many wonderful recipes including: - English Scones - Cakes including the inspirational Medieval Honey Cake with Earl Grey Tea frosting - English biscuits (cookies) including mouthwatering shortbreads - Exotic Teatime Treats - Old English Pikelets - Savories And if that isn't enough, Sandra helps you put it all together for an amazingly straightforward English Afternoon Tea Celebration. Sandra also includes a copious number of fun facts with the recipes, so that you can have a bit of fun with your friends, and not only enjoy the delicious baking, but also a little light-hearted chat. What's stopping you from believing that you can bake more easily and successfully than you ever thought possible?