This is not only a basic recipe book. It is also an essential guide and handy reference to the three major types of ovens on the market. If you are thinking of buying a microwave, or have bought one and want to get the best from it, you need this book.
The beloved British chef shares her secrets of success and her recipes for cakes, cookies, breads, and more. Marguerite Patten first became famous during World War II as she helped British cooks make the best of their rations via BBC radio. Her books went on to sell millions of copies and she became one of the first celebrity chefs—though she much preferred to be called a “home economist.” In this classic book, she presents her tried and tested recipes for cakes large and small, biscuits, breads, pizzas, and pastries. She also discusses equipment, ingredients, basic techniques, and what to do when things go wrong. You’ll find family favorites such as walnut cake, teacakes, and buns but more modern popular cakes such as honey and blueberry muffins. With Marguerite Patten’s expert guidance, even a beginner can discover the pleasures of baking and achieve successful results.
Get cooking with this beginner’s reference that covers essential equipment, kitchen staples, illustrated techniques, and easy recipes. This is a handbook for the starter cook. Ingredients and techniques are listed alphabetically for quick and easy reference, and it provides the basic methods and techniques for dealing with vegetables, fruits, meat, fish, poultry, grains, legumes, breads, and pasta, with advice on how to clean, store, prepare, and cook each entry. Line drawings illustrate techniques such as dicing, slicing, coring fruit, and rubbing in fat, and where appropriate a very simple recipe—such as a basic broth or pie—is included, which allows the reader to develop the skills demonstrated. Entries also cover simple but easily forgotten information such as how to poach an egg and at what temperature to roast a chicken.
The definitive guide to one of the world’s most popular dishes. Marguerite Patten draws on her years of experience to bring together recipes for one of the great comfort foods: soup. Hot soups are warming in cold weather and cold soups are refreshing in the heat. Soup can also be made from every kind of ingredient. This guide contains recipes for every occasion and soups from around the world—from vichyssoise and minestrone to hot and sour—and covers all the information you need to make soups of perfect flavor and consistency, including stocks which are the secret of many good soups.
This fully revised and updated edition of The Combination Microwave Cook has over 100 recipes - from simple snacks, vegetable, vegetarian, meat, fish and poultry dishes, to sweet and savoury bakes and pastries - all developed to make full use of these ultra modern appliances. Combine the well-known advantages of microwaves with the traditional crisp, golden finish which makes dishes so appetising. Imagine crisp, flaky pastry, golden-brown gratin and baked pasta dishes, main dishes, cakes and desserts, all cooked (and browned) in a fraction of the conventional cooking time.
Presents the seventy-fifth anniversary edition of the famous cookbook and contains a collection of full-color photographs and detailed instructions to a number of recipes.