Gran's Sweet Pantry

From the original and best home-style cookbook Gran's Kitchen (10,000 sales in Australia), comes the new companion volume of delicious treats and sweets. Long before old fashioned desserts and the women who cook them became fashionable, Dulcie May Booker was making favourite traditional desserts and sweets for her family and friends to share. Natalie Oldfield's first memories of baking were the wonderful smells that came from her gran's kitchen. Whether it was a batch of scones, a piece of cake with afternoon tea, a slice of Louise cake after a healthy lunch, the smell of jam boiling away on the stove top, or a hot dessert on a cold winter's night, her memory is full of recollections that transport her back to Gran's kitchen. After perusing her Gran's old recipe books one day, Natalie discovered many she had never heard of or tasted before, and those very special sweet recipes make up the pages of this book. This cookbook will satisfy the current interest in traditional cookery in a personal way, by focusing on one family's authentic, tried-and-true versions of everyone's favourite sweet treats like Rocky Road, Lamingtons, Napoleons and Double Choc Chip cookies as well as many long-forgotten gems, like Plum Sour Cream Cake and Hot Water Sponge with Lemon Honey and Cream. From cakes and loaves to slices and treats, all the recipes are simple yet exciting to make. Alongside old favourites, there are a few different flavours and newly available ingredients to reflect flavour combinations that are popular now. Included are a few savoury recipes too, like scones, muffins, chutneys and preserves.