UK Holidays - Duchess of Devonshire's Chatsworth Cookbook

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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 641 EAN: 9780711222571 ISBN: 0711222576 Label: Frances Lincoln Manufacturer: Frances Lincoln Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 192 Publication Date: 2006-07-08 Publisher: Frances Lincoln Studio: Frances Lincoln
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Editorial Reviews: Eat like a duchess and get to know more about one of England's great houses and the family who lives there.
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Quite Different and lovely - Mitford memoirs/cooking Comment: This is quite a different cookbook, and quite nice. The Duchess early on admits that she hasn't cooked in 50 or so years, but her interest in recipes, or receipts as she calls them, is huge. Lets face it too, with an interest in the raising of livestock, vegetables and especially poultry, it is really a follow on interest in how it is prepared. Luckily for us she uses the receipts which friends, family, chefs and other people have given her, tried and true, tested in the kitchens at Chatsworth and made to their own taste. They are credited at the end for where the recipe came from, and who cooked it. These are often french based, but you can see the clear influence of English cookery here - the Hartington Quiche for instance is a rich creamy concoction and includes Stilton cheese. Each chapter is on a different thing (puddings, eggs etc) and each is started with a short discussion which is more memoir than anything. When you have the wealth of history that you do at a place like Chatsworth there are plenty of old memu and kitchen items to write about. The Duchess intersperses these with her own memories of food - for instance only eating Bread Sauce for many years in her childhood - and being allowed to. It is a nice little cookbook - not brilliant, but nice. Most of these recipes I would think can be found just about anywhere else - or in a similar format. However what lifts it out of teh ordinary is the memoirs and background. They are quite sweet and another small insight into the fascinating Mitford Family of whom The Duchess was the youngest and now only surviving member. More Reviews