This is an utterly delightful book.
You can read it like a novel. The plot is simple: intrepid reporter contacts a great many people who live in the Midlands asking for their never-fail family recipes and reproduces them in a simple spiral bound book that commemorates the spirit of our island, our pioneers and our fantastic home cooks.
Along the way you meet interesting characters, are tuned into some local gossip, and help a good cause.
The writer is an American who met her husband in India in 1985, married him in 1991, and came to call the Midlands home.
Gems of recipes
She has put together a compendium of home cooking. The same that the Duke of Edinburgh famously said he never got any of — “All I get is fancy stuff.” Well there’s nothing particularly fancy here but in its pages you will find gems of recipes that have been standbys — and stand-outs — for generations of Tassie women and men.
From the fact that all the recipes have been tested and tried, and tested again over many years, you know they’re going to work.
