Peggy Porschen is one of the most prominent & pioneering names in contemporary cake design. Renowned for her exquisite craftsmanship combined with a love of baking her passion is for creating delectable works of art that taste as good as they look. This new book captures the essence of Peggy's technical skill & inspired use of colour while also ensuring that each cake is both achievable & delicious to eat. Boutique Baking has an unrivalled range of recipes that combines traditional baking with chic simple finishing touches. The first chapter Sweet Treats features all-time favourites such as Meringue kisses & Macaroons as well as Peggy's take on Cake pops. In Beautiful Biscuits there are recipes inspired by her German origins including Gingerbread Men & Mulled Wine Stars. The third chapter focuses on the most desirable cake phenomenon of the decade
- the cup cake & Peggy gives away the secret of her incredibly scrumptious repertoire of gourmet cup cakes. The Luscious Layer Cake chapter provides stunning ideas for sophisticated occasions while Classic Cakes & Bakes shows how to revive traditional recipes creating gorgeous looking & delicious cakes such as Neapolitan marble cake & Chocolate Battenberg. Last but certainly not least the book closes with a chapter on fabulous finishing touches basic recipes for frostings & fillings & delicious ideas for home-made drinks that perfectly accompany the cakes. Seductive & indulgent this is Peggy's most accessible book to date.
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A beefy collection of 40 recipes from the bestselling author who has ingeniously challenged our thinking regarding the limitations of some best-loved pantry icons. He has found a world that goes way beyond the mere spreading onto toast or squeezing into sandwiches--for Marmite Colmans Mustard Worcestershire Sauce Heinz Tomato Ketchup Lyles Golden Syrup & now HP Sauce. So here are casseroles with clout suprisingly rich gravies a stunning Onion Soup & marinading ideas galore--recipes created in surprisingly easy & tasty new ways. The book is beautifully packaged with fun fillings of history & lore & stunning archive imagery from more than 125 years of this meaty stock. ...

Young Kate Browning was beginning to find the strain almost to hard to bear. With her mother Florrie missing & her spineless father no use at all it fell to Kate to look after the family. But life in East London at the end of the nineteenth century had never been easy & with her cruel half-brother Alex becomingmore & more difficult she despaired of ever seeing her beloved mother again. But her fortunes change when one day searching for Florrie around the docks she meets a friendly face in the form of John Kelly a cheeky Irishman who rescues her from a tricky situation. Together with his grandparents John reminds her what happiness is like
- & she soon dreams of happiness with him. The dark shadow of Alex hangs over her still however & when he learns of her new friendship his cruelty slides into madness. Harbouring unnatural desires for his beautiful half-sister he will never allow the Irishman to take her away
- but Kate has inherited her mothers spirit as well as her looks & vows to forge her own way: discovering what became of Florrie & giving herself a deserved chance for love...

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bowerbird [bow*er*bird] n. 1. Any of various songbirds of the family Ptilonorhynchidae. The males of which build large elaborate structures of grasses twigs & brightly colored materials to attract females. 2. A person who collects miscellaneous objects. Bestselling author Sibella Court has always been a bowerbird. Her first bowerbird tendencies were noticed when at the age of three she put together collections of shells sequins beads & ribbons. Like her avian counterpart she goes far & wide to add to her collections enjoys arranging & rearranging the pieces & ultimately believes that collections containing the memories they do are a vital part of any home. ...

Bowl food is relaxed eating. Depending on your mood you can slow simmer a fiery curry put together a luscious pasta dish or simply toss a few fresh ingredients in a wok. All that remains is to lift your spoon & eat with pleasure. The best-selling & award-winning Chunky Food series from Murdoch Books has been re-launched with eye-catching appealing new covers & will attract a whole new generation of cooks. These cookbooks offer clever collections of easy-to-cook flavoursome recipes which take their inspiration from a great variety of international cuisines. They are the most used books in kitchens around the world. "" ...

Everyone loves a meatball but we're not talking just your average meatball here The Bowler is renowned for his gourmet meatballs fishballs & vegballs all made with the finest free-range meat & quality ingredients bursting with flavour & served with fresh-tasting sauces & sides. In this revolutionary cookbook The Bowler brings a delicious combination of flavours from the street to your home with recipes ranging from the perennially popular Great Balls of Fire made with pork beef ricotta & chilli & served in a Spiced Red Onion & Tomato Sauce to lightly scented Wasabi Salmon & Sesame fishballs with Asian Greens. With more than 70 ballistic ideas including original sauces sides & salads each recipe packs a punch that will make your taste buds sing. ...

In a groundbreaking book based on vast new data Robert Putnam shows how we have become increasingly disconnected from family friends neighbours & our democratic structures- & how we may reconnect. BOWLING ALONE warns Americans that their stock of social capital" the very fabric of their connections with each other has been accelerating down. Putnam describes the resulting impoverishment of their lives & communities. Drawing on evidence that

Includes:: nearly half a million interviews conducted over a quarter of a century in America Putnam shows how changes in work family structure age suburban life television computers womens roles & other factors are isolating Americans from each other in a trend whose reflection can clearly be seen in British society. We sign 30 percent fewer petitions than we did ten years ago. Membership in organisations- from the Boy Scouts to political parties & the Church is falling. Ties with friends & relatives are fraying: were 35 percent less likely to visit our neighbours or have dinner with our families than we were thirty years ago. We watch sport alone instead of with our friends. A century ago American citizens means of connecting were at a low point after decades of urbanisation industrialisation & immigration uprooted them from families & friends. That generation demonstrated a capacity for renewal by creating the organisations that pulled Americans together. Putnam shows how we can learn from them & reinvent common enterprises that will make us secure productive happy & hopeful."

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Drawing from the experiences of one of the masters of the sport Box Like the Pros" is a must-have for anyone pursuing boxing as a hobby or who is interested in training to become a professional boxer. Frazier with long-time boxing writer William Dettloff presents a complete introduction to the sport including the games history rules of the ring how fights are scored how to spar the basics of defence & offence the fighters workout a directory of boxing gyms & much more. " Box Like the Pros" is an instruction manual a historical reference tool & an insiders guide to the worlds most controversial sport." ...

A resource book
- & more! Intended originally for use by preachers this stunning collection proved so much fun that it is
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And now Master Harker now that the Wolves are Running perhaps you could do something to stop their Bite?" The Wolves are running & the evil Abner Brown & his gang are on the prowl. They're after a magical box but Kay has it- & he'll fight to keep it...A magical tale of wolves scrobbling & a box that can travel through time." ...