The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook: From Cauldron Cakes to Knickerbocker Glory--More Than 150 Magical Recipes for Wizards and Non-Wizards Alike

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The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook: From Cauldron Cakes to Knickerbocker Glory--More Than 150 Magical Recipes for Wizards and Non-Wizards Alike

by Dinah Bucholz

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Bangers and mash with Harry, Ron, and Hermione in the Hogwarts dining hall.

A proper cuppa tea and rock cakes in Hagrid's hut.

Cauldron cakes and pumpkin juice on the Hogwarts Express.

With this cookbook, dining a la Hogwarts is as easy as Banoffi Pie! With more than 150 easy-to-make recipes, tips, and techniques, you can indulge in spellbindingly delicious meals drawn str

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Hardcover, 239 pages

Published September 18th 2010 by Adams Media Corporation

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Dec 11, 2012 Nichelle rated it 5 of 5 stars

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The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook is a collection of recipes for foods found in the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling. But the cookbook isn’t just a collection of recipes, it also provides the story and history behind each dish. The book pulls different kinds of food from all over every book, from ice cream, to onion soup, to sugar mice, but can also be read simply for the interesting background behind the all of them, back ground that isn’t just from Harry Potter, but the real world as well...more

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Dec 04, 2012 Bookworm rated it 3 of 5 stars

First and foremost, I am a Potterhead so when I saw this cookbook available on AmazonVine, I had to request it. When the Harry Potter books finally came to an end, I loved the series so much, I read all seven books all over again. I ran the gamut of emotions while reading these beloved books, I laughed, I cried.... I developed a crush on Professor Snape.

Hogwarts is the literary place I'd most like to visit. (Go Slytherin) I'd want to drink Butterbeer and eat treats from Honedukes candy shop. Wh...more

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Sep 12, 2012 Aoife added it

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OK, so I haven't yet tried out any of the recipes, so I won't rate it yet, but just from reading it there are some things I noticed:

- A recipe for Bacon and Eggs? Really? Actually it's two recepies for Bacon and Eggs and then another for bacon. Has anybody ever needed instructions on how to make bacon?
- The way the recepies are sorted is less-than-ideal. There's a chapter for the food Harry had with the Dursley's, another for the Weasley's, the Hogwarts. So for every chapter you get proper dinne...more OK, so I haven't yet tried out any of the recipes, so I won't rate it yet, but just from reading it there are some things I noticed:

- A recipe for Bacon and Eggs? Really? Actually it's two recepies for Bacon and Eggs and then another for bacon. Has anybody ever needed instructions on how to make bacon?
- The way the recepies are sorted is less-than-ideal. There's a chapter for the food Harry had with the Dursley's, another for the Weasley's, the Hogwarts. So for every chapter you get proper dinner, cakes, sweets, desserts etc. Now if they would at least fit together, so that all the dinners mentioned in the Weasley-chapters would go particularily well with the desserts but you can just about combine everything with everything else. Sorting them differently would have made more sense.
- A LOT of space is used for the quotes mentioning the food and then telling more about that scene in great detail. You know, I've read the Harry Potter books. More than once. I've watched the movies. I'm quite familiar with the stories...as I assume are most people reading this book. We don't need to be told that Harry is best friends with Ron. These parts could have been shorter.
- This book seems to be targeted at children (there are several references to 'your friends' and 'your parents') but apart from the Bacon and Eggs most recepies look bloody complicated. There are a lot of pasties (I have made pasties several times and still don't get the dough right...) and instructions like 'Let cook for and hour but be careful, don't let it get to hot as it might explode'. Probably not the ideal choice for 13 year old HP-fans. Now I'm not saying it shouldn't have these recipes but some kind of rating system from 'Children can make this on their own with some supervision from adults' to 'children can watch adults from a safe distance while they try not to blow the kitchen up while cooking' would have been a good idea.
- Two recipes are actually marked as 'not tested, try at your own risk'. Now I don't think I need to say anything except WTF? (less)

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Oct 01, 2011 A.N. Vidrine rated it 2 of 5 stars

Okay, so being one of the few people who actually has cooked out of this recipe book, I wanted to say a few things about it.

Real cooking takes some effort, people. Real cooking isn't about throwing three ingredients into the microwave and hoping it doesn't taste like rubber when it comes out. These recipes are the REAL DEAL. Real cooking, real home cooking. So it will take some effort.

Some of the recipes are great. I totally enjoyed the Yorkshire pudding with our roast (we did pork since I don't...more Okay, so being one of the few people who actually has cooked out of this recipe book, I wanted to say a few things about it.

Real cooking takes some effort, people. Real cooking isn't about throwing three ingredients into the microwave and hoping it doesn't taste like rubber when it comes out. These recipes are the REAL DEAL. Real cooking, real home cooking. So it will take some effort.

Some of the recipes are great. I totally enjoyed the Yorkshire pudding with our roast (we did pork since I don't eat beef; otherwise the recipe was exactly the same). My husband loved the treacle tart, but it wasn't my thing...but it was a good recipe. I also made the English Strawberry Trifle, which was very complicated but worth every moment of sweating in the kitchen. You can't get that type of food from a box. The Shepherd's Pie was also quite tasty (and relatively simple).

However, some of the recipes leave something to be desired. I agree with other reviewers. Really, a recipe for eggs and bacon? I think most people who are capable of cooking the rest of the recipes in this book know how to cook bacon and eggs. The sugar-mice are just fondant? Who wants to eat just plain-old fondant? Why not add some flavoring (I don't count vanilla extract) and then roll the mice in sugar to make...SUGAR mice?

And then there was the Old-Fashioned Chocolate Buttermilk Sheet Cake Disaster. I was surprised at how liquid-y the batter was, and even more surprised that it only called for a 9x13 pan. Thinking that this cake probably wouldn't rise so much, I went ahead and used all the batter in one pan. Disaster. Complete, utter, total disaster. I followed the recipe to a tee and what happened? The batter bubbled up all over my oven, and continued to bubble and spill everywhere even after I removed it from the oven. All those ingredients, wasted. Smoke everywhere. Did the author even test this recipe? This should have been for two pans, or perhaps four round pans. DO NOT try to bake this in only one 9x13 pan, unless you want to waste the rest of the batter.

Now I'm afraid to try the rest of the recipes, wondering what other disasters await me.(less)

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Jun 02, 2011 Rebecca Anderson rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction

I got this book for Christmas last year (2010) and because I'm such a fan of both Harry Potter and cooking, my parents thought this would be a great gift. I've been flipping through it ever since, but I thought it was only fair to try out several recipes before I could make a proper review of this book.

The four stars come mostly from it being Harry Potter themed. The author links all of her recipes to Harry, whether they are direct treats from the books or just mentioned dishes. If I wasn't such...more

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Jan 14, 2011 Angie rated it 2 of 5 stars

To be fair ... I did actually read/skim over this cookbook WANTING to love it. And I still love the idea of it. But I didn't actually try cooking any of the recipes.

There are several things in here that I would have changed.

1) No photos. No photos at all. I know that makes cookbooks cost more (and not all cookbooks have them) but for not particularly gifted cooks like myself, well. We kind of need the photos.

2) Not particularly easy looking recipes. Again ... kind of depends on what you're looki...more

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Jan 03, 2011 Lolly's rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: cookbook, fiction-book-series-tie-in

I admit it, I adore tie-in cookbooks. Redwall, Discworld, even Fanny Flagg's Whistle Stop Cafe cookbook...you find me a cookbook that ties in with a series I enjoy and I'll snap it up, lickety-split. That's why I was so excited to find The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook. Even since I first read the books, the food mentioned in them fascinated me, not just the traditional British food (which, due to my Anglophilia, I've long been interested in), but the strange and wonderful wizard food, food w...more I admit it, I adore tie-in cookbooks. Redwall, Discworld, even Fanny Flagg's Whistle Stop Cafe cookbook...you find me a cookbook that ties in with a series I enjoy and I'll snap it up, lickety-split. That's why I was so excited to find The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook. Even since I first read the books, the food mentioned in them fascinated me, not just the traditional British food (which, due to my Anglophilia, I've long been interested in), but the strange and wonderful wizard food, food which I wondered how it could be translated into real-world equivalents. It's obvious from Dinah Bucholz's writing that she, too, is fascinated by those dishes mentioned by Rowling and it's also apparent that she's given a lot of thought and put a lot of effort into creating the dishes listed in this cookbook. Each one is headed by a synopsis of the scene in which the dish appears and most have sidebars full of trivia related to the dish or the ingredients used. Tips, techniques and ways to make some of the dishes more like those in the books (especially as applies to the food served by Hagrid) appear at the end of many of the recipes. The instructions are clearly written, as they should be seeing how this is directed more towards young cooks, book and web sources are clearly listed, and the index is extensive, making it easy to find a particular dish. I haven't had the opportunity to test any of the recipes out; should I do so and meet with success, I'll be sure to add another star to my rating.

Note: Due to the unofficial nature of this cookbook, being unaffiliated, licensed or endorsed by J.K. Rowling or Warner Bros., some famous recipes, most notably Butterbeer, aren't included due to their licensed state. However, a quick web search will garner you several takes on Butterbeer as well as many other Potter treats which might be missing from this book, although, considering the extensive number of recipes contained in this book (over 150), there can't be that many.(less)

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Mar 16, 2012 Kaleigh rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: cook-books

Now, like everyone else here I'm going to complain about the lack of pictures in this cookbook.
The thing that got to me the most though, was that some recipes have not even been tested.

Quote: "You may find this recipe a bit, well, repulsive. The following recipe has not been tested, so proceed at your peril (if you can even find all the ingredients)."

This was a recipe for haggis and while I will certainly admit that this is not something that I think "Right, well, I can't wait to make that Tuesd...more Now, like everyone else here I'm going to complain about the lack of pictures in this cookbook.
The thing that got to me the most though, was that some recipes have not even been tested.

Quote: "You may find this recipe a bit, well, repulsive. The following recipe has not been tested, so proceed at your peril (if you can even find all the ingredients)."

This was a recipe for haggis and while I will certainly admit that this is not something that I think "Right, well, I can't wait to make that Tuesday night!" because it's not something in my culture and, admittedly, it's not something I've ever tried, though I would.
I'm also a little upset by the fact that the author appears to throw away the fact that this is (as she states) the signature dish of Scotland and puts it into her cookbook without even trying it, first. There is no excuse not to test recipes. And there are hundreds if not thousands of people out there who would be more than willing to test your recipes, free of charge and, often, without even asking for a credit.

Personally, I feel like if you are not willing to test your own recipes it is unfair of you to put them on paper for other people to spend their money on and put their effort into when it is something you haven't even put in the effort to try yourself. I don't mean to sound rude, just practical. I don't have a lot of money for food - I mean, I really don't - and I'm not alone there, and so regardless of the author's preference (as a cookbook writer, shouldn't you enjoy all your recipes?) if I'm going to spend my money on the ingredients I need, only to put it together and find that it's a recipe that, let's just say, is not good, then I've wasted money on something that I cannot eat.

The book also could have benefited from an index, especially considering that it was not laid out according to meals.

The Helpful Hints were great, but are listed at the beginning and none of the recipes that I noticed ever seem to allude back to the helpful hints for things such as: "If you use glass pans such as Pyrex or dark metal pans to bake cakes, subrtact 25 degrees from the temperature supplied in the recipe as these pans get hotter..."
When I'm in the kitchen, I'm not going to read every single one of the helpful hints every time I want to cook something out of this book.

Complaints aside, I will say that the book is pretty and looks like a used Hogwarts textbook or something that the house elves might cook out of, assuming they'd ever need cookbooks at all, but I can't get past the fact that it's a poorly laid out cookbook with some recipes that aren't even tested - that could just be a personal issue of mine.

I did really enjoy How to make a proper cuppa and other bits and bats scattered throughout. It's clear the author did research on the dishes, which is nice and always interesting - I love, love, love when cookbooks have author personality. Some recipes in here sound delicious too. Chivy cheesy eggs for one.

This is a cookbook that had good potential (especially with about 20% less icecream ideas which seemed to me variations of the same formula but then - I've never made icecream), but due to lack of photographs and, above all, lack of testing, I'm only going to rate it two stars.(less)

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Oct 08, 2010 Roxy (r_a_black) rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: cookbooks, non-fiction

This book is interesting, it's got recipes for what seems to be every single mention of food in the series except for Butterbeer. I don't mind that too much though because a recipe for Butterbeer is easy to find online. I do love that they have Kreacher's French Onion Soup, and that the author chose to take the scene in which Ron, Hermione, Hagrid, and Sirius send Harry birthday cakes and decided to attach particular cake recipes to each character. I also like that there are historical tidbits f...more

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Jul 12, 2012 Cathy rated it 4 of 5 stars

This book I picked up on a whim, because, you know, it's Harry Potter!! Surprisingly, it is a very interesting cookbook!! This is one of those cookbooks that you can read from cover to cover, because each recipe includes a short paragraph of the history of cooking! Like: why does Mulligatawny Soup have such a crazy name? What is a "rasher" of Bacon? What is Pease Porridge? How did ketchup come about? What are "bangers" and why are they called that?
So much fun. Most of the recipes are from Great...more

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Jan 09, 2011 Jessica rated it 5 of 5 stars

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This isn't just for Harry Potter fans . . . no, this is for fans of food in general and traditional British cooking in particular. There is a lot of food mentioned in the Harry Potter books, and Bucholz has noted every feast, snack, dessert, and piece of candy that Harry and friends munch on, and recreated it simply and charmingly. Each recipe is headed with a quote or citation from the HP books, and there's also fascinating historical facts about the food as well. The history of potatoes, custa...more

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Jul 25, 2012 Heather rated it 3 of 5 stars

I was so excited to get this book and it's a great book if you're curious about the foods in the Harry Potter series and would like to host a theme dinner party or just to try some out with your family every now and then. The author tells you where in the series (book & page) to find each recipe mentioned. The reason I only gave it 3 stars is 1/2 of the recipes are for ice cream. I did not think ice cream played a huge role in the Harry Potter series and was dissapointed that the cookbook re...more

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Oct 26, 2011 Wendy rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: an-annual-read, books-i-read-to-learn-stuff

Loved it!!

I'm totally going to buy one, and start trying some out.

A few are pretty fancy, so maybe I need to throw a party and try them out.

But most are just regular things, but better 'cause they're something Harry would have had. :)

See alsoLobscouse and Spotted Dog: Which It's a Gastronomic Companion to the Aubrey/Maturin Novels... another book I love of recipe's from books that I LOVE.

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Apr 17, 2011 Kallan rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

There was obviously a lot of effort put into making this book. There are legions of recipes in here, from all over the series, and they all are very in depth and I am sure that they will make delicious food when cooked.

However, I was pretty disappointed with this book. I was expecting magical recipes. You know, recipes that WIZARDS would cook. Not just random recipes that appeared one random time in the series and are something that you would find in any standard cookbook.

Overall, I wasn't to h...more

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Jun 18, 2012 Dorothy rated it 5 of 5 stars

I keep coming back to this cookbook for family-friendly meals. My son and I are fairly obsessed with Harry Potter, so when he began asking me about the foods mentioned in the novels I searched around and discovered this book. Almost every traditional meal mentioned in the books is included, barring those that are created from J. K. Rowling's imagination (probably for trademark reasons). Ok,so you have to have a predisposed affinity for British food to enjoy it, I suppose, but keep an open mind,...more

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Nov 26, 2011 Meherin rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Harry Potter fans, food lovers

Shelves: harry-potter, cookbooks

This book was just fun to read through because it further brought to life the foods mentioned in the Harry Potter books and because each recipe had a little historical fact on the side which I loved. The recipes are super from-scratch recipes, which makes sense, as people in the wizarding world probably cook from scratch, but is difficult for a college student like me to find time to try any of the recipes out. The only one I did try was the pumpkin pasties but I cheated and used premade dough a...more

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Oct 30, 2011 Andrea rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011

I downloaded this book free for my Nook. I thought it would be a fun read for my children's/YA book challenge. Little did I know this is a serious little cookbook with real recipes to make a pretty big holiday dinner. The book features lots of great basics like a roast turkey, mashed potatoes, and glazed carrots. As a pretty experienced cook I can say that these are real recipes. Most of the dishes are not ones I would make since they are the full fat/sugar versions. This would make a great gift...more

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Jul 11, 2011 Laura rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: nonfiction

This weekend we had a three-course dinner of Kreacher's french onion soup, Mrs. Weasley's famous meatballs, and pumpkin pasties for dessert. Fun and pretty tasty! This cookbook, replete with recipes for seemingly every food ever mentioned in the seven-book series, is definitely a fun one for fans. Those who are looking for a serious cookbook (this one doesn't have much in the way of organization or pretty pictures) or those who won't enjoy reminiscing about what characters ate for breakfast on v...more

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Jul 27, 2011 Selena rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: nonfiction, cookbooks

While I haven't tried to make anything out of this book (yet), reading through the cookbook had lots of oddities that might be hard to find in another cookbook unless you ordered one from England. From the look of things the instructions were simple and there are plenty of different kinds of foods from appetizers to dessert.

The only improvement I would suggest is some of the organization. The book has grouped recipes, where there are two different kinds of ice creams listed under the same recipe...more

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Apr 01, 2013 Christiana added it

This cookbook provides 150 plus recipes based on dishes mentioned throughout the Harry Potter Series. In addition to these recipes, a excerpt on each page explains where in the books the dish comes from and where the dish originated from, giving readers not only a deeper look into the Harry Potter world backstory, but also a bit of a british cooking history lesson. A quote from the books introduction describes the books goals well; "This book grants its reader great powers. It's true that a mugg...more

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Aug 20, 2011 Weirdology rated it 3 of 5 stars

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As a Harry Potter fanatic, I had to check out this book. But as a health freak, I'm a little afraid of it. I don't usually cook or eat most of the type of foods in here, so maybe I'm wrong, but I think a lot of these recipes contain pointless and unhealthy ingredients. With the desserts, I can understand there being butter and sugar, but I've made a few desserts before and I don't remember adding nearly as much as these recipes call for. Even in a lot of the "healthy" recipes there's usually but...more As a Harry Potter fanatic, I had to check out this book. But as a health freak, I'm a little afraid of it. I don't usually cook or eat most of the type of foods in here, so maybe I'm wrong, but I think a lot of these recipes contain pointless and unhealthy ingredients. With the desserts, I can understand there being butter and sugar, but I've made a few desserts before and I don't remember adding nearly as much as these recipes call for. Even in a lot of the "healthy" recipes there's usually butter, sugar or salt added. Like one recipe instructs you to slather butter over perfectly good fish for no reason at all! I know you could just leave that step out, but still. Eww. I'm wondering if all this butter and sugar is a British thing or the authors preference. The few foreign dishes, like the French foods or the Hungarian Goulash, are healthier. So I'm guessing it's the former.

I've found a few recipes that I'm willing to try. A couple of them will only take minor adjustments to make healthier, like switching the butter for olive oil when frying the sausage in the Herbed and Spiced Fried Sausage Patties recipe. The other recipes that I'm going to try are the Fried Tomatoes, Bouillabaisse, Beef stew with Herb Dumplings, and the Pumpkin Pasties. I can't make the Pumpkin Pasties any healthier since it's a dessert and there's just no avoiding it, but they're one of the few foods that had me curious when reading Harry Potter. I've been craving these things since I first read about them at age 11! And I'm lucky since this recipe doesn't use as much butter and sugar as the other desserts.

I was disappointed in the pumpkin juice recipe. It was just a mixture of pumpkin and other juices, like apple juice. Although I know this is probably what it would really be like, or perhaps just pumpkin juice by itself, I was hoping for something different. Someone who's been to that Harry Potter theme park, or whatever it is, said they had some pumpkin juice and it was spicy. Not spicy hot. Just more like it had spices blended in. I think I'm going to look online for a recipe like that.

I was also disappointed in the cauldron cakes. They're just pancakes. I imagined them to be cupcakes shaped like cauldrons. lol. Oh well.

The mincemeat pie had no meat in it. And also way too much butter and sugar. I think I'll look up an alternative recipe for this as well.

Something that annoyed me was that something as simple as eggs and bacon were in here. Though I know the author is just trying to be thorough and include every single food that's in the Harry Potter books. But it was getting redundant and ridiculous when an eggs and bacon recipe showed up again... and again. First it was fried eggs and bacon, then scrambled eggs and bacon, then a third and fourth recipe for eggs and bacon separately. What?

Even though I don't really like the recipes, I learned a little from this book. With some of these foods, I thought they were exclusive to Harry Potter, like something Rowling made up. They sounded exotic and weird, like something you would make from potions ingredients. Turns out a lot of it is traditional British food. I enjoyed the little side notes. They were usually about the history of the food, British culture, and British or European people of the past. Even Nero the Roman emperor! Apparently he used to eat a mixture of snow, honey and fruit?(less)

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Dec 31, 2011 Sheryl Tribble rated it 3 of 5 stars

Kind of a mixed bag. I find it really weird that she recommends loose sausage for Bangers and Mash, for instance; never seen Bangers and Mash where the sausage wasn't in a casing. We've liked everything we've tried thus far but OTOH some of her recipes look iffy to me and I end up using a recipe from somewhere else or combining the two instead. So more worth it for the inspiration than the recipes I guess. Kind of like a lot of the Disney cookbooks -- cook at your own risk!

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Sep 25, 2011 Mehnaz rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: liked

I liked the book :)

Although the recipes seemed like the ordinary ones that we find in most other cookbooks, especially the cakes, there were also surprise like 'icy lemon pops', 'cauldron cakes', 'acid pops', 'pumpkin pasties' and so on.

The 'chicken and mushroom pie' was the most favorite dish of mine from this book. The 'citrus cake with mango filling' tempted me as well. There are a lot of recipes in this book that I would like to try, and when I do, I'll update this review as well :D

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Aug 31, 2010 Alisa rated it 4 of 5 stars

Recommended to Alisa by: Matty S.

Shelves: non-fiction, harry-potter

I squeeled like a little girl when Matty came to me and said that he had found something disturbing and then showed me this cookbook..lol..
This is a fun and interesting cookbook and I am excited about trying some of these recipes.. like the Cauldron Cakes but I can promise I wont be trying "Molly's Meat Pies"... those just look gross...lol.. I went to town telling him about how I was trying these recipes and he was going to eat them wether he liked it or not..lol...

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Oct 28, 2012 Shenek rated it 4 of 5 stars

This was a lot of fun. Each page consisted of a recipe, where and when it's mentioned in the Harry Potter books and a little snippet of the history of that food. I tried quite a few recipes. Some were excellent (raspberry ice cream was my favorite, the roast chicken was great too) but after a while my family got bored of eating traditional British foods. I quite enjoyed this book but I'm one of those people that likes reading recipes...

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Nov 07, 2011 Xyra rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Harry Potter fans who like to cook.

I really like this cookbook and enjoyed meeting Dinah curing the book signing at Harleysville Books.
So far I have made the pumpkin pasties (and gotten rave reviews), meringues, one of the chicken dishes and a couple more (my book has post it notes in it and is not currently on hand to verify names). It's getting that lovely used look to it - I'm not the neatest cook and do not have a book rest to lean it against while cooking. :D

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Jan 25, 2011 Elizabeth rated it 3 of 5 stars

I can't decide if this book is fantastic or terrible! It's neither, but it sure is fun. Half the stuff in it I would never make. Soup with the main ingredient being sheep or goat blood? No thanks! Haggis? I'll pass. Many recipes have obscure ingredients, and their connection to the books is shaky at best. But there are a few gems in the pages, including an easy recipe for chicken legs that may become a family favorite!

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Oct 18, 2010 Arnel Montgomery rated it 5 of 5 stars

This is a nice kids cookbook. Its recipes for many of the dishes are easy enough for older children with some kitchen experience to make by themselves with little or no adult supervision. The author took the time to research the scenes in the books from which each dish came, but what I really like is the historical information that accompanies each recipe. I learned a lot about what makes each dish essentially British in nature.

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Jan 04, 2012 Amber rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: cookbooks

This is a cookbook created by the author using her idea's/recipes for the foods written about in the Harry Potter series.
It was fun to see what her concepts were, but I thought overall the recipes were not inspiring, and some of the dialogue accompanying the recipes was dry reading.
I didn't find any recipes that I would like to try-bummer.
However one thing I did like was the book references-chapters-quotes that she attached to each recipe (what book and chapter).

(however there are many more book...more

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Aug 31, 2011 Grace rated it 5 of 5 stars

I made 2 things in here so far- breakfast stuff- fried tomatoes and porridge.
Fried tomatoes were amazing- porridge not so much. They have a bit of info about whats happening in the book connected to the recipe. Something like... in chapter 7 harry was able to manage to force down a few fried tomatoes before his quidditch match. FYI thats not in the book, just an example I thought of off of the top of my head.

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Dinah Bucholz is the official author of The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook. Dinah was born to a large family and grew up in a small New York City suburb called Monsey. The most exciting things that happened in her childhood were getting her pony tail pulled by various brothers, also getting teased by the same, and enjoying spectacular good times and spectacular fights with her twin sisters.

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title link	preview: The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook: From Cauldron Cakes to Knickerbocker Glory--More Than 150 Magical Recipes for Wizards and Non-Wizards Alike
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The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook: From Cauldron Cakes to Knickerbocker Glory--More Than 150 Magical Recipes for Wizards and Non-Wizards Alike

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