Tea with the Bennetts of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice: An Anthology of Recipes

by Margaret Vaughan

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Food and Drink, Nonfiction

48 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

Reviews

[QNPoohBear · Rating 3 out of 5]

This collection of recipes is charming and quaint. It doesn't have much to do with Jane Austen or her characters but fans of the Great British Bake Off (Baking Show) will love to see these original old-fashioned recipes. Here you will not see any fancy European bakery pastries but good, solid home baked tea treats. I can't imagine baking any of these on a tiny gas stove in a cottage but luckily the author converts the baking temperatures and times for those of us with more modern stoves. The measurements are also in U.S. and U.K. measurements. (Use a scale, my fellow Americans, it's SO much easier). I would like to try some of these recipes but want someone else to bake them for me because they look too involved for me. Still, this book is a very charming glimpse of days gone by with some personal anecdotes about the author's childhood in the long ago days before everyone was too busy to bake at home.

Will update when I try some of the recipes.

[Melindam · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tea, cakes & Jane Austen? Oh yes, please! A truly delightful combination. :)

[Dilly Dalley · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have a weakness for cakes and tea. I have a great love of Austen and an interest in history and particularly cultural history. For all these reasons, this little book suits me. It has recipes in the great British tradition of afternoon tea as well as curiosities like 'Hedgerow Pudding' (blackberries, crab apples, sloes any other edible berries from the hedgerow). It is a mixture of the old and the new and is gathered around the themes of the Bennett sisters and their beaus. I found it charming and though not needed, would expect to make some of the cakes and biscuits.

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