Product Description

"The Book of Old Tarts" is a collection of recipes for those who remember fondly delicious tarts cooked by old aunts, the school cook or local teashop owner, as well as for modern cooks looking for something new and tempting. Some old tarts have been plucked from the past and given a completely new look, while others are left in their original splendour. Traditional flowers, fruits and berries are combined with the newest ingredients to concoct unique flavours and textures. Each tart has its own potted history or interesting tale to tell and this little book also tracies the history of tart-making from medieval and Elizabethan times to the modern day.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #657254 in Books
• Published on: 2002-09-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

About the Author
Elizabeth Hodder is an established cookery writer with an interest in researching traditional recipes and in food preserving from medieval times.

Customer Reviews

Luscious but not louche, dishy pies and tarts for all ages.
Luscious but not louche, this would make a great Christmas present and conversation starter. It's a book by a cook who sounds as if she has been around the kitchen a few times: in the tradition of Claudia Roden, Hodder not only talks you through the recipe but provides scholarly excursions into its history and glimpses of her own philosophy of cooking. She writes with an engaging conviviality and none of the irritatingly contrived sensuality of la Grande Nigella. Her rich repertoire of recipes reminds us of how barren our traditonal culinary landscape has become, with native ingredients like elderflowers, gooseberries and walnuts supplanted by supermarket exotica.Try "Mucky Mouth Tart" or "Folkestone Pudding Pie". And for those who have always wanted to know the difference between a pie and a tart....tarts have bottoms. I should have guessed.

yum yum...
This has to be one of my favorite cookbooks.For tarts it's streets ahead of anything else I've seen in print. Christmas, birthdays, parties and just 'something nice for lunch' days, this book has something for them all. My only comment would be take a close look at the instructions for shallow/deep flan tin (I've occasionally been caught out with too little filling) Please don't let it be out of print!