Those look good, but I have to confess that very very few of our 2nd hand cookery books have been a success. I can't help feeling that might be why the books were donated by their previous owners... 😏
(We also had a couple of "baking for kids" type new books that turned out poor - eg. under-tested & over-sugary recipes. The "make your own sweets" one that fascinated youngest with its gorgeous photography, was particularly yucky. Most of the recipes consist of "melt down those sweeties and use the resulting sickly-sweet gloop to make this...")
The one that's been consistently good is a German baking set for kids, given to youngest but adopted by eldest.
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Date: 2021-04-06 09:29 am (UTC)(We also had a couple of "baking for kids" type new books that turned out poor - eg. under-tested & over-sugary recipes. The "make your own sweets" one that fascinated youngest with its gorgeous photography, was particularly yucky. Most of the recipes consist of "melt down those sweeties and use the resulting sickly-sweet gloop to make this...")
The one that's been consistently good is a German baking set for kids, given to youngest but adopted by eldest.