The National Trust Teatime Baking Book

by Jane Pettigrew

The National Trust TEATIME BAKING BOOK - Collection of delicious British teatime recipes - scones, hot-cross buns, cherry bakewells, suffolk apple cake melting moments, fat rascals ( £15.99) HardcoverPublication 2010

Genres: Cookbooks

Hardcover

Published January 1, 2010

About the author

Jane Pettigrew is a tea specialist, historian, writer and consultant. Since 1983, she has been working in the UK and around the world to explain and share the fascinating world of tea.

She has written 15 books on the many and varied aspects of tea, its production, history and culture, and she writes for tea related magazines and journals.

She also gives regular tea masterclasses and tea tastings, speaks on radio and TV and acts as consultant to tea companies, new tea businesses, table ware and tea ware companies.

Reviews

[Hilary · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful pictures of national trust kitchens, pretty tins and lovely old fashioned baking. We tried some recipes and they turned out really well. If you like baking that uses seaonal fruit, nuts and what I would consider more 'healthy' teatime treats as opposed to cakes with lots of icing etc you will probably enjoy this book. Lots of regional favourites and historical facts about the recipes, many unusual recipes.

We loved the orange and peanut oat biscuits, the banana and fruit loaf worked perfectly and have lots of on the list to try. We bought this book from Amazon and it was only about £3 with postage. The one downside is not all recipes have photos. The lack of pictures doesn't seem to matter too much though as you can usually picture from the description what the finished product should look like.

There are a huge amount of recipes in here, as well as cakes and biscuits there are lots of breads, scones, muffins, tarts and flans. This will be a book I'm going to be working my way through this year.

[Kris · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a cookbook of recipes inspired by various historical recipes from the English countryside. There is an easy to follow conversion chart with American equivalents provided. The Introduction was interesting and adds to the enjoyment of this book and its recipes.

I liked the colorful names of some of the recipes--Sly Cake, Singin' Hinny, Sally Lunns, Boxhill Bread Pudding, and Simone Seker's Fruit Parkin to name a few. Great photos of many recipes.

I will make the Herb Bread recipe. It looks easy to make and tasty.

I was prompted to read this book because of a review done by Hilary--many thanks to you!

[Vicki · Rating 5 out of 5]

A must have for any baker, consistently reliable classics from National Trust shops (surely a discerning clientel) often with snippets on their origins and where they became popular. I’ve cooked over 1/3 of the recipes without a fail. The florentine slice may be only a distant cousin of the florentine but is great!

[Holly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book full of real recipes we used to make for the national trust cafes and restaurants before buying them in became the norm. Chocolate cake with beetroot, banana chocolate cake, coffee & walnut cake and bara brith were favourites.delighted to have found it on eBay as my recipes got lost years ago & were for lots of cakes rather than singles. Top tip - a lot of these freeze well for a month or so even iced cakes wrapped in cling film then foil, defrost for a day at room temperature.