UK MasterChef finalist Hannah Miles reached 'the final three' in the 2007 series of MasterChef, and there's been no stopping her since. This will be Hannah's 12th cookery book, but her first dedicated to creating puddings and desserts and biscuits and cakes on her beloved Aga. Sumptuous classics for this classic cooker include treats such as Jam Roly Poly, Custard Tarts, Flapjacks and Muffins while exciting and more exotic delectations such as Churros with Toffee Cream Filling, Maple Pretzels and Cardamom Rice Pudding make this compact but decadent book an irresistible buy for all sweet-toothed Aga owners.

' I can't imagine that I will ever enjoy writing anything as much as I've enjoyed writing this book. It contains the culinary subjects nearest to my heart - all sweet things.Puddings and preserves, cakes and biscuits, chocolates and fudges, ice creams and chewy meringues, they are all here...' Claire Macdonald runs a family hotel at Kinloch Lodge on the Isle of Skye. One of the highlights of every meal whether prepared for her husband and four children or for guests, is the sweet course. Sweet Things has a remarkable range and variety of unsurpassed puddings , gateaux, fruit mousses, jellies, tarts and crepes. Claire Macdonald also gives her favourite tried and trusted recipes for jams, chutneys and sweets, plus homemade cakes and biscuits for hearty highland teas.

Following on from Secrets of Aga Cakes, Lucy Young now takes on puddings. She shows us how to make all the lovely desserts we want to indulge in, but may find tricky to get quite right in the Aga. With 100 recipes for pies, steamed puddings, tarts, crumbles and mini sweet treats, ranging from the classic to the contemporary, there are ideas for all occasions, from simply fast puddings for the busy person to classic comfort food for a rainy day. Includes:Express Puds – fast desserts for the time-strapped who still fancy a treatWicked Chocolate – luxurious chocolate puddings like Rich Chocolate and Rum Terrine perfect for chocaholicsTarts and pies – delicious classic recipes like Apricot and Clementine Fruit TartRainy Day Puds – perfect pick-me-up comfort food like Luxury Lemon Bread and Butter Pudding Little pots and glasses – indulgent desserts in small sizes, ideal for dinner parties or when you fancy a small treatNaughties to go with puds and coffee – beautifully formed sweet treats for the perfect conclusion to any meal As well as advice about cooking equipment and useful tips about how to get fantastic results in the Aga, each recipe also has instructions for the conventional oven, ensuring that no matter what you're cooking in you'll get perfect puddings everytime. Illustrated throughout with tantalising photography, there is something for everyone with the sweetest tooth to those who want a simple, fast pudding.

The life and times of the Great British Pudding, both savoury and sweet - with 80 recipes re-created for the 21st century home cook Jamie Oliver says of Pride and Pudding 'A truly wonderful thing of beauty, a very tasty masterpiece!' BLESSED BE HE THAT INVENTED PUDDING The great British pudding, versatile and wonderful in all its guises, has been a source of nourishment and delight since the days of the Roman occupation, and probably even before then. By faithfully recreating recipes from historical cookery texts and updating them for today's kitchens and ingredients, Regula Ysewijn has revived over 80 beautiful puddings for the modern home cook. There are ancient savoury dishes such as the Scottish haggis or humble beef pudding, traditional sweet and savoury pies, pastries, jellies, ices, flummeries, junkets, jam roly-poly and, of course, the iconic Christmas pudding. Regula tells the story of each one, sharing the original recipe alongside her own version, while paying homage to the cooks, writers and moments in history that helped shape them.

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Whether you are an AGA aficionado or have never cooked on an AGA before, Mary Berry and Lucy Young's new AGA cookbook is just what you need by your side. It is 30 years since AGA first got in touch with Mary Berry about producing the AGA handbook and 15 since she followed it up with Mary Berry's New Aga Cookbook - now she has combined, improved, updated and revamped those books with Lucy's help to produce The Complete Aga Cookbook, which deserves its place on all 21st-century kitchen shelves. There have been many new trends in cooking in the intervening years, and a plethora of new ingredients, and Mary explores them in new recipes, adapting many ideas to the Aga way of cooking. As Mary herself says, an Aga rapidly becomes the centre attraction of the kitchen, acting as a warm focus for family, friends and animals. And cooking on an Aga is a joy: its spacious ovens produce perfectly cooked dishes, time after time. But we haven't forgotten those who cook on conventional cookers and instructions are supplied on each recipe. Complete with all the AGA user information, Mary and Lucy help you get the most out of your AGA as they guide the reader through time- and energy-saving tips - from melting chocolate on the back shelf, to frying drop scones on the Boiling Plate and slow roasting overnight in your Simmering Oven. A few recipes will be familiar (adapted old favourites, which she just couldn't bear to leave out) but, whether new or old, all have been cooked to perfection in the Aga, showing how versatile it really is.

In 1846 a small book entitled Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bellappeared on the British Literary scene. The three psuedonymous poets, the Brontë sisters went on to unprecedented success with such novels as Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey, and Jane Eyre, all published in the following year. As children, these English sisters had begun writing poems and stories abotu an imaginary country named Gondal, yet they never sought to publish any of their work until Charlotte's discovery of Emily's more mature poems in the autumn of 1845. Charlotte later recalled: "I accidentally lighted on a MS. volume of verse in my sister Emily's handwriting....I looked it over, amd something more than surprise seized me -- a deep conviction that these were not common effusions, nor at all like the poetry women generally write. I thought them condensed and terse, vigorous and genuine. To my ear they had also a peculiar music -- wild, melancholy, and elevating." The renowned Hatfield edition of The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Brontë includes the poetry that captivated Charlotte Brontë a century and a half ago, a body of work that continues to resonate today. This incomparable volume includes Emily's verse from Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell as well as 200 works collected from various manuscript sources after her death in 1848. Some were deited and preserved by Charlotte and Arthur Bell Nichols; still others were discovered years later by Brontë scholars. Originally released in 1923, Hatfield's collection was the result of a remarkable attempt over twenty years to isolate Emily's poems from her sisters' and to achieve chronological order. Accompanied by an interpretive preface on "The Gondal Story" by Miss Fannie E. Ratchford, author of The Brontë's Web of Childhood, the edition is the definitive collection of Emily Brontë's poetical works.