| How to be a Domestic Goddess: Baking and the Art of Comfort Cooking |  | Author: Nigella Lawson
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
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Rating:  108 reviews
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7.5 x 1.1
ISBN: 0701171081
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.815
EAN: 9780701171087
Publication Date: October 2, 2003
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This volume is not about being a goddess, but about feeling like one. Nigella shows that there can be more feelgood mileage from running up a tray of muffins or baking a sponge cake than in almost any other cooking - and that it's not actually hard.
Amazon.co.uk Review
Those who love comfort food have cause to be grateful for Nigella Lawson's book How to Be a Domestic Goddess. Cause, too, perhaps, to wonder that she isn't the size of a house, since baked comfort foods typically encompass large quantities of butter, cream, eggs, sugar, chocolate, nuts, cream cheese and all the other foodstuffs to which with dreary inevitability attaches the deadly word "sinful". But in Nigella Lawson's hands these dangerous, even feared, substances are transmuted alchemically into the healing balms of the goddess, who presides (perhaps a little ironically) over a harmonious kitchen realm. The recipes are suitably divine, covering cakes, biscuits, pies, puddings, breads, with special sections on cooking for (and by) children and Christmas. Most are sweet, though there is a choice selection of savoury pies and puddings--Pizza Rustica, Steak and Kidney Pudding, Cornish Pasties. The sweet things range from the airy elegance of Pistachio Macaroons, through the luscious spiciness of Norwegian Cinnamon Buns, to the trailer-trashiness of Coca-Cola Cake. Nigella Lawson's poise never falters, whether she is discussing serving mulled wine with mince pies ("Don't fight it") or a strange passion-fruit liqueur required for one of her trifles ("the most divinely camp liqueur you could ever come across"). She plays a kind of game with her readers, insisting constantly on her greed, but really invoking our own. What a fascinating book: hints of obsessiveness revealed behind the beautifully projected personality of a laid-back voluptuary.--Robin Davidson
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 Best baking book ever! July 3, 2010
H. England (uk)
I bought this book because we stayed at our friends and she made the best scones ever and a delicious lemon syrup cake using the recipes out of this book. I have since made these and other recipes out of the book and they have all been delicious.
Fab and reliable July 1, 2010
Net (United Kingdom)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have been really impressed with this cookbook and would have to say Nigella does it again. I get on really well with her recipes which have always turned out to be reliable and delicious (if a little indulgent at times!).
Some notable successes are the banana bread which is scrummy (too good for the children!!), blueberry muffins, pancakes, jam doughnut muffins (seriously naughty), the most wonderful passionfruit curd, a delicious spiced apple chutney and the piece de resistance without a shadow of a doubt are the scones which are the best I have made or tasted.
Buy this book and you won't be disappointed but you may need to exercise a lot of willpower keeping it to treats only or buy some bigger clothes!!
Nigella a domestic goddess June 23, 2010
Peder Rasmussen (Bydgoszcz, Poland - Danish of origin)
Professional handling from order, payment and delivery. Delivered several days before deadline, so we can only give our best recommendation for dealing here again. The book was in super condition so only positive rates from here.
A really good one. June 11, 2010
L. Laret (edinburgh)
First of all, i don't understand how some people don't like it but moreover don't manage to make anything successfull with it!
I keep making things (easy almond cake,gateau breton etc...) and they all turned out perfect. With a bit of commun sense you can't fail!!!
If you love baking, it really is a must have then. Great pictures (not too many of nigella, thank god the women loves herself sometimes!), really easy and good recipes, just a great vib coming from it!
I would definitely recommend it!
Drooltastic! May 14, 2010
Rumplestaleskin (Cambridge, Uk)
This is the baking staple that I come back to for inspiration and for special occasions.
This is a really comprehensive volume that covers baking in all guises, ranging from cakes and biscuits through to pies, savouries and chutneys. I'm ashamed to say that this is probably the most neglected of my Nigella collection as I don't have the time to bake. I do, however, sit myself down on a an occasional wet Sunday afternoon, trawl throught the book, and make a commitment to making something. On doing this, I rediscover recipes that I have tried and loved.
Some commentators have highlighted the issue of timings: I would stress that these are guidelines as all ovens vary. But, that's the joy of cooking, in your own domain: you are the master of your own destiny and you can modify recipes to suit your palate. I find Nigella very user-friendly but have found Delia problematic, in the past. Delia is undoubtedly the grand dame of cookery but my preference is Nigella for ease and inspiration in equal measure.
If you are a novice to the baking scene, give it a go and you will realise that you are a natural born baker.
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