Hardboard binding with black title and Aga cooker on the front board.

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For conditions, please view our photographs. A nice clean rare original book from the library gathered by the famous Cambridge Don, computer scientist, food and wine connoisseur, Jack Arnold LANG. 

Jack founded the Michelin Guide ‘Midsummer House’- Cambridge’s paramount restaurant. This dining experience is hidden amongst the grassy pastures and grazing cattle of Midsummer Common and perched on the banks of the River Cam. The Midsummer House experience is imaginatively curated to delight and amaze, so the surprise set menu changes regularly and is ‘Midsummer’s’ playground to showcase.

The cookery author, journalist and broadcaster, Mary Berry, provides a guide to using Aga (and Rayburn) cookers. It begins with details of how an Aga works, the Aga way of cooking, and the basics of the two-oven and four-oven Aga, a section on utensils, and general tips. The main section of the book contains recipes, ranging from traditional to modern tastes, with instructions for cooking them in an Aga. The recipes include soups and starters, meat dishes, poultry and game, seafood, vegetable dishes, savouries and sauces, baking, puddings, quick lunches, and breakfasts. Other uses for the Aga are covered, such as airing and drying washing, ironing, drying herbs and flowers, and heating the home.

Reviews:

• This is a bible for any Aga owner. It will tell you how to do anything. I have been trying to obtain a copy for some time, and even having owned an Aga for over 30 years still found out things I didn’t know. Mary Berry of course is an Aga champion, and you can’t get better than that. A brilliant encyclopedia and testament to this wonderful cooker.
• Much better than the new updated version which has strange recipes in it! This one has much more simple, easy recipes that would cook everyday in an aga. Every aga owner should have this as their manual for use! I refer back to it again and again.

Dame Mary Rosa Alleyne Hunnings DBE (née Berry; born 24 March 1935) is an English food writer, chef, baker and television presenter. After being encouraged in domestic science classes at school, she studied catering at college. She then moved to France at the age of 22 to study at Le Cordon Bleu culinary school, before working in a number of cooking-related jobs.

Berry has published more than 75 cookery books, including her best-selling Baking Bible in 2009. Her first book was The Hamlyn All Colour Cookbook in 1970. She hosted several television series for the BBC and Thames Television. Berry is an occasional contributor to Woman’s Hour and Saturday Kitchen. She was a judge on the television programme The Great British Bake Off from 2010 until 2016.