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Nanny Ogg's Cookbook | 
 enlarge | Authors: Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs, Tina Hannan
Creator: Paul Kidby
Publisher: Corgi Books
Category: Book
List Price: £9.99
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 36812
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 6 x 0.6
ISBN: 0552146730
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.50207
EAN: 9780552146739
ASIN: 0552146730
Publication Date: November 1, 2001
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Enjoyable February 17, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I put this in my cupboard after an initial skim though, I was a little disappointed that it wasn't "the joye of snacks". I got it out a couple of weeks ago and discovered that my initial impression was wrong. It's an enjoyable book, with some interesting recipies and great titbits and artistic work. All these years assigned to my cupboard, when I could have been dipping in and out of it.
An excellent cookery book full of good advice September 25, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I laughed myself silly reading this; it is VERY funny. Cookery books are not usually humorous reading, but this one is a corker. I am looking forward to trying the recipes (especially the Dwarf bread and battle scones), and think they look perfectly do-able.
If you own a copy of 'The Joye of Snacks', and can bring it out into the open without it spontaneously combusting, you probably don't need this book.
If you are a fan of the Disk World and Nanny Ogg, you definitely do need this book - it is a true classic of a type never before (or since) seen.
The advice in the back of the book is also hilarious and entirely true in all respects - I would recommend this book for any about-to-be-married couple; they will cherish it.
Update on my review:
Since buying the book, I've had a go at a number of the recipes and they do work and have proved very popular with my family. Also, if you promise not to tell Nanny Ogg, I'll let you into a little secret ... many of the recipes can be adapted to suit vegetarians. The Klatchian curry using quorn instead of chicken was delicious; the Slumpie worked very well with quorn mince and the Gumbo was excellent without anything that had been dredged out of the bottom of a swamp. I haven't yet plucked up courage to try the Distressed Pudding ... watch this space!
Nanny Ogg definitely is my gran! June 1, 2006
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
Fantastic book. You must experiment with the cooking aspect - I think a more authentic recipe result will probably be attained by not being able to cook.
Wonderful illustrations as always.
A tip for those Americans who are not familiar with English English: Swede, a large yellow root vegetable of the turnip family, generally diced, boiled and then mashed with butter as potato to create a softer version of 'mash'. Sometimes combined with said spud (potato) to create an earthier 'mash'.
Treacle; a deliciously sweet refined inverted sugar syrup. Please don't believe that this substance is or has ever been mined. Treacle mines do actually refer to underground works where hematite like minerals are found, that bear a resembelance to black treacle (molasses). Treacle is used in our rounded earth world to make tarts (they are like a pie without a lid ok) and as an ingriedient in cakes.
Sorry for the digression but it seems to keep cropping up.
cookbook with a difference September 25, 2004
20 out of 21 found this review helpful
This book is a joy not only to those who like cooking but also to anyone who is a Terry Pratchett fan.The figgins were delicious- rather like a boozy eccles cake.The chocolate delight with special secret sauce just disappeared as everyone wanted second helpings.Anyone with a childrens halloween party coming up really must make the sheep's eyes - gruesome to look at - but really quite edible.The second part of the book enlightens one on some fascinating facts and folklore, some of which has to be taken with a pinch of salt.
Not just a cookbook February 22, 2004
28 out of 29 found this review helpful
The design of "Nanny Ogg's Cookbook" is based on the traditional "Beeton's book of Household Management". For anyone that has not heard of this almost timeless publication it, apart from over 1,350 recipes, gives advice on a variety of subjects related to running a house, including for example 'Duties of the valet' etc. (Well in does in my 1st Edition Fascimile anyway ISBN: 0907486185)Nanny Ogg's book, apart from being filled with some excellent drawings by Paul Kidby, includes Modes of Address; Etiquette at the Table; The Language of Flowers, Royal Occassions and Etiquette in the Bedroom as well as a few others. All in all an excellent supplement to the Discworld series and don't afraid to try out the recipes because in the words of the Authors "...strict accuracy has been sacrificed in the interestes of having as many readers at the end of the book as we had at the start. The main aim has been to get the look and feel of the original Discworld recipes whilst avoiding, as far as possible, the original taste." An enjoyable read that, just like any other DW book, got priority in my reading order when I received it for a Christmas present and was finished sometime before lunch on Boxing day, although that didn't include trying any of the recipes. Well let's face it, would you fancy Sticky Toffee Rat Onna Stick after too much Christmas pud and brandy butter?
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