Review: Like a visit to the author's kitchen
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 17, 2012
I love this book, partly due to the really mouthwatering desserts featured, and partly for the wonderful reminiscences of life in the 1950s and 60s. The recipes themselves are very well laid out, clearly written and easy to follow, and the photographs of the finished desserts are excellent.Although I haven't yet tried every recipe, the ones that I have prepared have turned out very well indeed - delicious and good to look at too, just like the author's photographs, which is not always the case with recipe books.The introduction to each dessert, in which Joyce Middleton describes how she came by the recipe, how it has been handed down in the family, and her own experience in using it give the book a very personal feel - almost as though we are attending a cooking workshop in her own kitchen.All in all a great little book and one that I shall use often.