A few weeks ago I sent my husband to England to buy me some books and Thornton's chocolate. While he was there, of course, he also did some work for the company that employs him. Actually, I sent him for the chocolate, and assembled the list of books after he left, and faxed it to him at his hotel in London.
The chocolate wasn't as good as the last batch from England. Might have been because it got sort of mashed in his suitcase on the way home. But I did get five new cookbooks, which I'll enjoy longer than the chocolate anyway.
The only two he could find in the bookstoes from a page full of faxed titles I got off Amazon.com's UK website were: Just Like Mother Used To Make, by Tom Norrington-Davies, and Tea-time Recipes by Jane Pettigrew. They are both good looking, substantial hardcovers. I'll list some of the recipes below.
One of our sons also happened to be in England at the same time, so they joined up to visit my husband's relatives in Cornwall. They brought me two cookbooks from there: The Pasty Book, by Hettie Merrick, and A Taste of Heligan: the best from the bakery, by Tina Bishop and Paul Drye. My final delicious morsel came, I think from Cornwall, but it might have been London, chosen by my son: Celtic Cookbook: Traditional Recipes From The Six Celtic Nations, by Helen Smith-Twiddy.
Here are a few recipe titles from my new cookbooks from the UK trip:
Pasty Pastry, Pasty Fillings (several variations), lots of information about pasties.
Thanks for posting the receipe of Tunis Cake. My father used to bake this every year at chrismas and I am looking forward to restarting the tradition!!
Posted by: Lance Cooper | November 14, 2005 at 03:10 PM