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Cherry Cake and Ginger Beer: A Golden Treasury of Classic Treats
by
Jane Brocket
If as a child you devoured Enid Blyton's classics like the Famous Five or Malory Towers, or loved to lose yourself in the adventures of Pippi Longstocking or What Katy Did, then CHERRY CAKE AND GINGER BEER is the book for you. A wonderfully nostalgic cookery book, it will take you straight back to your favourite children's books and show you how to cook the feel-good foods...more
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Published
2008
by Hodder & Stoughton
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This is a brilliant book - thank you so much Robin for buying it. It's perfect for someone in my age group.
(All my friends in Good Reads are a bit younger than me - which must indicate that I'm young inside !)
The book takes all the children's books from the fifties, sixties and seventies (and sometimes even earlier) and searches them for delicious references to food. The author then invents a recipe to go with the foodie reference.
For me it was a wonderful journey back into my childhood ...
Now...more
(All my friends in Good Reads are a bit younger than me - which must indicate that I'm young inside !)
The book takes all the children's books from the fifties, sixties and seventies (and sometimes even earlier) and searches them for delicious references to food. The author then invents a recipe to go with the foodie reference.
For me it was a wonderful journey back into my childhood ...
Now...more
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Brocket takes up the children's books from her youth and culls the passages refering to food. Then she puts recipes to them for those who want to cook up a treat while reading them herself. The books range from about the last quarter of the 19th century through the first half of the twentieth. Most of the books are British, with a few American, Swedish, and Australian ones tucked in. Enid Blyton figures heavily.
The recipes are very do-able. I can see home schoolers using this book as a jumping o...more
The recipes are very do-able. I can see home schoolers using this book as a jumping o...more
Apr 06, 2010
Relyn
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Recommends it for:
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I love Jane Brockett's other book
This book is wonderful. Jane Brockett wrote it with her daughter after they got caught up in a discussion of food in favorite childhood books. It's full of terrific book recommendations and recipes to go with them. The only real problem with the book is that the recipes are written for Europeans. I have no idea how to translate them. There were quite a few I'd love to try, too. I also found many, many great books to read. I love it when that happens.
Jane puzzles over the origin of the phrase 'lashings of ginger beer' as she's sure it's not found in any Enid Blyton books. I suspect it was first used in The Comic Strip's spoof Five Go Mad in Dorset in the early 1980s. A fun book - I felt exactly the same as Jane about Heidi, and the Chalet School stories. Will definitely try making some of the jammier treats.
I LOVED this book! A compilation of the delicious treats found in children's literature, including recipes, it totally feeds into my wish to be the person who can whip up a batch of scones or throw together a delicious picnic at a moment's notice. Also includes a list of the books she talks about, and some helpful cookery books and resources. And ALSO includes delightful original illustrations from the children's books. This book seems to be currently out of print, but I will be trying to find m...more
I love the premise but it didn't deliver as much as I had hoped. The majority of the recipes were from a handful of books, I was hoping for more variety. Some of the 'recipes' weren't even that . e.g toast with butter, bacon, hard boiled egg etc.
The only two recipes I will be trying from this book are Paddington Bear's marmalade buns and Bruce Bogtrotter's chocolate cake (from Matilda).
The only two recipes I will be trying from this book are Paddington Bear's marmalade buns and Bruce Bogtrotter's chocolate cake (from Matilda).
I love this book! for anyone who has ever read a book where the characters are feasting beside a rushing river, and wished they could taste the ginger ale and seed they are eating, this is the book for you! this summer i'm trying to make all the recipies and read all the books! wish me luck!
May 25, 2010
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Jane Brocket takes the best of children's chapter books and offers recipes for the most memorable foods they offer. Being British, I haven't read about half the books she mentions, so onto my to-be-read list several of them go (as if I don't already have enough backlog there!). Also, it seems to me that about half the books mentioned are by Enid Blyton.
The discussion of food in children's literature was fascinating to me, and I loved reading the snippets from the books (with original illustratio...more
The discussion of food in children's literature was fascinating to me, and I loved reading the snippets from the books (with original illustratio...more
I LOOOOOOOOOOOVED it! This is a scrumptious yummy nostalgic cosy heartwarming treat of a book (is that enough adjectives?). The author has combed through classic children's fiction for mentions of food (eg Famous Five, Swallows and Amazons, Milly Molly Mandy, Anne of Green Gables etc etc) and provided recipes to make your own versions. I shall definitely be trying them out. First on the list? Mrs Beaver's marmalade roll! Hoorah!
Probably my favourite cook book of all time, and that's saying something. Lovely things to eat, reliable recipes.
Jane Brocket's rubbish talk about domesticity a few years back pissed me off, but this book is considerably less screwed up. (Though, like most children's books of the past, hopelessly white and gender normative, but them's the breaks with the subject matter.)
Inspiring and sentimental journey into comfort-kitchen activity!
An adorable cookbook based on recipes found in children's literature.
absolutely beautiful. despite being of the younger generation, and most of these books being way before my time, they are classics and i had read most of them in spite of their age. food in books is one of my favourite parts, so being able to actually sample them is a delight. as always, Jane Brocket has triumphed.
I love this author - found her through her blog. She is the source of my fascination with Persephone books as well. I really liked this second book of hers (loved the first one too) and am re-reading many old childhood favorites as a result!
This has the best recipes. You simply must make Aunt Fanny's sticky treacly gingercake. I have no idea why Uncle Quentin was such a grumpy git when he had a lovely wife who baked sumptious cakes.
What a delightful cookbook! Brocket finds the most delicious of children's books and describes the food sequences. There are recipes, too, though I'm never likely to try them.
Jane Brocket's top 10 food scenes in children's literature
http://books.guardian.co.uk/top10s/in...
http://books.guardian.co.uk/top10s/in...
Fabulous! Recipes based upon classics in children's literature.
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[From the author's website:]
My first book The Gentle Art of Domesticity was published by Hodder & Stoughton in October 2007. My second book Cherry Cake and Ginger Beer was published by Hodder & Stoughton in July 2008 and my third book with Hodder Ripping Things to Do was published in July 2009. September 2008 saw the publication in the USA of The Gentle Art of Domesticity by STC Crafts/Mel...more
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My first book The Gentle Art of Domesticity was published by Hodder & Stoughton in October 2007. My second book Cherry Cake and Ginger Beer was published by Hodder & Stoughton in July 2008 and my third book with Hodder Ripping Things to Do was published in July 2009. September 2008 saw the publication in the USA of The Gentle Art of Domesticity by STC Crafts/Mel...more
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