How To Be A Domestic Goddess: Baking and the Art of Comfort Cooking (Nigella Collection) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

How To Be A Domestic Goddess: Baking and the Art of Comfort Cooking (Nigella Collection) Book

Those who love comfort food have cause to be grateful for Nigella Lawson's book How to Be a Domestic Goddess. Cause, too, perhaps, to wonder that she isn't the size of a house, since baked comfort foods typically encompass large quantities of butter, cream, eggs, sugar, chocolate, nuts, cream cheese and all the other foodstuffs to which with dreary inevitability attaches the deadly word "sinful". But in Nigella Lawson's hands these dangerous, even feared, substances are transmuted alchemically into the healing balms of the goddess, who presides (perhaps a little ironically) over a harmonious kitchen realm. The recipes are suitably divine, covering cakes, biscuits, pies, puddings, breads, with special sections on cooking for (and by) children and Christmas. Most are sweet, though there is a choice selection of savoury pies and puddings--Pizza Rustica, Steak and Kidney Pudding, Cornish Pasties. The sweet things range from the airy elegance of Pistachio Macaroons, through the luscious spiciness of Norwegian Cinnamon Buns, to the trailer-trashiness of Coca-Cola Cake. Nigella Lawson's poise never falters, whether she is discussing serving mulled wine with mince pies ("Don't fight it") or a strange passion-fruit liqueur required for one of her trifles ("the most divinely camp liqueur you could ever come across"). She plays a kind of game with her readers, insisting constantly on her greed, but really invoking our own. What a fascinating book: hints of obsessiveness revealed behind the beautifully projected personality of a laid-back voluptuary.--Robin DavidsonRead More

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  • Amazon

    How to be a Domestic Goddess is not about being a goddess, but about feeling like one. What this deliciously reassuring and mouthwatering cookbook shows is that it's not hard to bake a tray of muffins, or a sponge layer cake - but the rewards are high. Here is the book that feeds our fantasies, understands our anxieties and puts cakes, pies, pastries, preserves, puddings, bread and biscuits back into our own kitchens. With a writer's flair and a cook's passion, Nigella brings you everything from brownies to bagels, from gooseberry-cream crumble to double apple pie, from pizza to pistachio macaroons, from festive bake to Barbie cake.

  • Foyles

    Rediscover the classic book that launched a thousand cupcakes.'This is for those days or evenings when you want to usher a little something out of the kitchen that makes you thrill at the sheer pleasure you've conjured up.'The classic baking bible by Nigella Lawson. This is the book that helped the world rediscover the joys of baking and kick-started the cupcake revolution, from cake shops around the country to The Great British Bake Off.How To Be a Domestic Goddess is not about being a goddess, but about feeling like one. Here is the book that feeds our fantasies, understands our anxieties and puts cakes, pies, pastries, preserves, puddings, bread and biscuits back into our own kitchens.With luscious photography, easy recipes, witty food writing and a beautiful hardback design, this is a book you will treasure for many years as well as a delicious gift for friends and family.Cakes - from a simple Victoria Sponge to beautiful cupcakesBiscuits - macaroons, muffins and other indulgent treatsPies - perfect shortcrust and puff pastry and sweet and savoury recipesPuddings - crumbles, sponges, trifles and cheesecakesChocolate - luscious chocolate recipes for sharing (or not)Children - simple recipes for baking with kidsChristmas - pudding, Christmas cakes, mince pies... and mulled wineBread - finally, the proof that baking bread can be fun, with easy bread recipesThe Domestic Goddess's Larder - essential preserves, jams, chutneys, curds and pickles that every cook should have**Nigella returns to the BBC in 2023 in Nigella’s Amsterdam Christmas Special**

  • TheBookPeople

    This is the book that helped the world rediscover the joys of baking and kick-started the cupcake revolution, from cake shops around the country to the Great British Bake Off.How To Be a Domestic Goddess is not about being a goddess, but about feeling like one. The book feeds our fantasies, understands our anxieties and puts cakes, pies, pastries, preserves, puddings, bread and biscuits back into our own kitchens. With luscious photography, easy recipes, witty food writing and a beautiful hardback design, this is a book you will treasure for many years as well as a delicious gift for friends and family.The classic baking bible by Nigella Lawson, is a must for every home baker.

  • Blackwell

    Helps you discover the joys of baking. This title features: cakes - from a simple Victoria Sponge to beautiful cupcakes; biscuits - macaroons, muffins and other treats; pies - perfect shortcrust and puff pastry and sweet and savoury recipes...

  • 0701189142
  • 9780701189143
  • Nigella Lawson
  • 10 April 2014
  • Chatto & Windus
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 384
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