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by: Nigella Lawson

: How to be a Domestic Goddess: Baking and the Art of Comfort Cooking

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Binding: Paperback
Brand: Books
Dewey Decimal Number: 641
EAN: 9780701171087
ISBN: 0701171081
Label: Chatto & Windus
Manufacturer: Chatto & Windus
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: October 02, 2003
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Sales Rank: 299
Studio: Chatto & Windus

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This is a book about baking, but not a Baking Book. The trouble with much modern cooking is not that the food it produces is not good, but that the mood it induces in the cook is one of skin-of-the-teeth efficiency, all briskness and little pleasure. Some

Amazon.co.uk Review:
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 Davidson

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- Mixed results
I've only recently started using this book but am an avid baker. The production is wonderful and I enjoy Nigella's attitude to food. Some recipes are excellent but others are quite disappointing. I felt some basic information was left out i.e. size of moulds, adjustment for fan ovens etc. This may well have impacted on the outcome of some recipes. However, once you hit on a good recipe, it's a keeper! You'll make it again and again!

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- Great Christmas cake recipe - could easily double as pud!
I was drawn by the cake on the front of this book and used Nigella's recipe for latkes around Christmas a couple of years ago - they were lovely. This year I've used her Christmas cake recipe twice (second cake baked last week) and everyone who has eaten it has loved it! The first time it came out quite moist but I found that it came out really high when I left the fruit soak for about a week, topping up the sherry (Cork Cream) with a little splash of black (Seadog) rum and finished it with cognac ... Read More

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- Perfect for any Domestic Goddess!
It's quite simple. I have bought this book for many friends now, It's a super addition to any recipe collection. Perfect!!

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- Comfort food at it's best
Just the most dreamy book, I just like to look through it sometimes as it cheers me up. The recipes are all yummy, easy to follow and love Nigellas approach. Would not be without this book, refer to time and again.

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- Baking Flavoured Genius!!!
I absolutely love this book.

Mouth-watering recipes with honest & humerous additions and explanations to encourage you through them. Although some of the recipes look & sound a little advanced you never know until you try, and as the author explains some of the most wonderful recipes are created by mistake.

Admittedly i've mostly attempted sweet treats but the Cornish Pasty recipe was divine, I substituted the mince for butternut squash and made a vegetarian version. ... Read More

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