Description
of Midland Morsels................(and read
the latest review!)
120
pages, comb (spiral) binding, cardboard colour front and back
covers with plastic covering, inside black-and-white with many
graphics and photographs.
Midlands
Morsels was produced with love and high production values. It
was made to be used, so lies flat. A plastic cover was added to
protect the cookbook from wear and tear.
Midlands
Morsels contains 230 favourite and treasured recipes, some dating
from Colonial times and some completely modern. The oldest is
a biscuit recipe from 1830. The newest, a delicious, gluten-free
one for Cheese Frogs, was developed recently from an old Cheese
Biscuits recipe.
Each
chapter starts with a quotation, such as Oscar Wilde's quip that
heads the Cakes section: 'The only way to resist temptation is
to yield to it.' There's a section on napkin folding from 100
years ago with a web address for those interested in its modern
equivalent.
Midlands
Morsels has a bit of everything, as Northern Midlands Mayor Kim
Polley said at the book launch 18 September 2005 at the Tasmanian
Wool Centre in Ross. Included are a recipe for nursing sick joeys
back to health and detailed instructions for quails on toast ('First
hang …'). Lest you think it's impractical, Midlands Morsels
was written with ease of cooking in mind. Wait until you try Melissa
Brain's Lazy Loaf (I could have eaten the whole thing at one sitting)
and Audrey Coope Robinson's Rolled Oat Biscuits (the batter tastes
exceptional). Then there's a foolproof steak casserole using tins
(cans) of soup that takes only a few minutes to prepare and freezes
beautifully.
Also
included is a sampling from a website (address included) that
offers 603 ways to cope with all that zucchini you and your friends
grew. Midlands Morsels includes a personal cookbook entry from
the Boer War; recipes from schoolchildren, a stroll through the
1920s and 1930s with the toasts and vegetarian recipes from that
era; a Holiday Gifts section with Brandied Mulberries and a treasured
caramel toffee recipe guaranteed to win every heart within cooee
(shouting) distance. I could go on and on, but why not see for
yourself?
Midlands
Morsels contains a page about BODHI and its current and past activities.
We hope to reach new audiences.
All
orders from North America will include a page of translations
(example: scone is pronounced scawn and is really a biscuit, while
a biscuit is a cookie and a savoury biscuit is a cracker) and
substitutions from the British culture (1 kilogram: 2.2 pounds).
Each cookbook
costs $20 in both US and Australian dollars. For more information and/or to purchase, please visit www.susanbutler.com.au.
