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Mackie's Review
- The classic 1000 dessert recipes.
A fantastic book for dessert lovers with almost too much to choose
from. There are three chapters which particularly suit Mackie’s
ice cream fans – “Macerated Magic” is dedicated to
fruit – poached, stewed or simply steeped in syrup, juice or
alcohol – many will be a perfect accompaniment to your ice
cream. – for example gingered melon or spiced summer fruit
salad. The final chapter is called “Drizzles, Dollops and Smothers”
with some mouth-watering sauces – for example you could try
melting chocolate, hot banana or Gaelic Coffee sauce poured over
Traditional ice cream. We like the sound of Black Forest Bombe and
have added that to our recipe database if you’d like to give
it a try.
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What
a fantastic book! It's a recipe collection extracting and updating
the Desserts, cakes and pastries section from the original 1938
reference book by the Gastronomic Committee in Paris. It has three
chapters - Desserts, Biscuits, cakes, pastries and sweetbreads and
Basic recipes for Batters, butter & creams, custards, icings,
cakes, preserves and jelly. Here is a book which has over 500 recipes
arranged in alphabetical order and you'll want to commit your life
to making them all! Fruits, sorbets, salads, granite, gateau,…again
difficult to make a recommendation from all this choice. Try the
Banana Flambe or German Bread and Fruit Pudding for simple, comforting
and delicious accompaniments to Mackie's ice cream - perfect as
winter draws in.
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Why resist - When your craving hits, turn these pages to find the
perfect cure. Whether it's a seductively sweet crème caramel,
the naughty but oh-so-nice chocolate fudge puddings, or an exotic
saffron spice cake that's needed, you'll find it in here. It will
taste all the sweeter knowing you made it yourself. We particularly
liked the Apricot
Honey Soufflé and Crepes
with warm fruit compote.
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A book we have to recommend for its wholehearted approach to making
the most of your freezer. Here is real tasty food and a recipe book
you really will use, with the added feature of instructions on how
to best freeze, defrost and cook again. The first chapter on brunches
has a few desserty recipes hidden in there - for example cinnamon
waffles with caramelized apples and maple syrup, other sections
include Lunch, Afternoon Tea, Finger Food, Soup, Dinner and Dessert.
All are good occasions for Mackie's ice cream..except perhaps the
soup. There are only 12 dessert recipes but you will not be disappointed.
Her introduction to dessert section mentions that all you need are
some meringues, wafers or fruit on hand and along with some ice
cream you will always be able to impress friends at dessert time.
Our Star recipes from this book might have been the sweet sauces
on the last page, very easy and delicious - chocolate
fudge sauce or Butterscotch
sauce or for the braver cook, a Brownie
and Coffee ice cream cake which needs 1 litre of ice cream.
Perfect!
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A
book dedicated to desserts! Gordon Ramsay's introduction begins
with a lovely anonymous quote "Life is uncertain…eat dessert
first" He is nostalgic about puddings and includes a chapter
on "homely puddings" and another with more unusual recipes
because puddings can be "frivolous and fun". We agree!
Chapters include Fruit, ices and creams, mousses, bavarois and soufflés,
crepes and batters, homely puddings, special occasions and accompaniments
and chocolates. The pictures and recipes look gloriously good -
no wonder you might go for dessert first. Its hard to choose our
favourite here, roasted rhubarb and apple crumble, fruit tempura,
a whole chapter on crepes and batters but you'll find his recipe
for slow
roasted peaches with orange caramel sauce in the database -
it would be good with orange and mango dairy sorbet. This is an
excellent book for puddings to go with Mackie's ice cream - and
you can let us know if you invent any great new flavours of ice
cream.
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Here
is a something different from the cookery book shelves, and one
clue why is that it is written by artist and photographer Jake Tilson.
It's an eclectic mix of memory, exploration and scrapbook by Jake
Tilson. In the journey you will find a journal experience around
the world including a visit to his wife's Aberdeenshire home (p148)
and pictures of Mackie's ice cream lids (Traditional and Honeycomb,
page 150). We are not even sure that this is a cookbook - the recipes
are hidden in a patchwork of text, diary and pictures. Still, it
looks great and we have selected a star recipe page on Pancakes.
You could choose to try orange juice pancakes ("the size of
a DVD because they are more floppy than a milk based pancake")
or snow pancakes, yes the ingredient is SNOW which should be "light
and fluffy, not hard and icy" and you put it in the ladle on
the way to the griddle, the result; delicious pancakes full of holes
(where the snow melted). …We, of course suggest that you fill
those holes with some Mackie's ice cream.
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In
her introduction to this book of obsessions Clarissa Dickson Wright
gives the advice to "always remember that food is to be loved,
laughed over and, above all, enjoyed in the company of your friends"
- and we like that quote so much that it is displayed on the ice
cream dairy wall on a plaque to commemorate her visit to open the
spiral freezer in 2000. Whatever your obsession, you'll find a great
selection of recipes with photos here, ranging from the simplest
sausage ragu or spicy lemon potatoes to oysters in champagne and
the Duke of Hamilton's Fig Ice cream. 34 chapters of obsessions
from Salt to Peaches…and the sweeter section includes Figs,
Coffee, Raspberries, Cream, chocolate, Apples, Butter and Peaches.
22 puddings include many which would be delicious served with Mackie's
ice cream - and we suggest grilled peaches and cream because it
is delicious and simple or apple pandowdy because it's a great name..
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This
is a book full of fantastic recipes and any book that has a whole
section dedicated to potatoes gets our vote! In addition this book
has a wealth of traditional recipes presented in a fresh style and
such good photographs that you want to make them all - now. The
Desserts range from the most traditional like Cranachan, reveals
his secret recipe for tablet and has 28 entries in the pudding section.
Many would be great to celebrate the summer and almost all would
be delicious served with Mackie's Ice Cream - from the simplest
of lemon and sugar crepes, raspberry mousse to hot whisky cream.
It is a difficult choice but we have chosen the bramble and almond
tart recipe as our star - because it is one which he suggest should
be eaten warm, with pastry still crumbly and light with a scoop
of ice cream.
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We began the year with "Scots Cooking" by Sue Lawrence,
she has collected over 120 of the best recipes from Scotland and
you are guaranteed to find something "affa fine" in these
pages. We like the pudding section best - 13 recipes ranging from
Scots classics to some modernised versions of old recipes - eg Sticky
Toffee Pudding.
Our star recipe from this book has to be the Sticky Toffee Pudding
(page 128) not only because it is delicious but because she mentions
Mackie's Ice Cream.
Scot's cooking has about 10% of the space devoted to puddings "very
dear to all Scot's hearts" and we'd recommend almost all to
be served with Mackie's Ice Cream - Treacle Duff, Steamed Marmalade
Pudding, Cloutie Dumpling, Bramble and Butterscotch Crumble Tart,
Drumlanrig Pudding and Apple Frushie. There are also two recipes
for homemade ice cream - Oatmeal Praline ice cream with Berries
and Whisky and Honey ice cream. A brilliant book for Burns night
preparations.
If
you would like to add your own review of the recipe books or to
suggest one as a prize, please email recipe@mackies.co.uk
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