Downton Abbey Afternoon Tea Cookbook

This is a great gift for anyone who loves tea or Downton Abbey. It has lots of wonderful recipes along with stories and interesting facts. I can’t wait to try them. The book is bound beautifully and looks much more expensive than it is. My family loves doing afternoon tea on Mother’s Day and we loved watching Downton Abbey together when it aired so this book is perfect for us. I had bought it as a gift for my daughter but now I want one too. Guess I’ll have to buy another!

Good buy

I had a tea party and found this book to guide me, I wanted to be sure I was doing it right. My British guest told me that indeed everything was perfect. The recipes were easy to follow and the pictures were very nice. My guests enjoyed looking through it!

Quality book while including stunning images. I recommend this book for personal use but most important as a gift.

What's good about this book: 1. Most of the famous English tea cakes and savories are represented. If you're going to do some classic English manorhouse tea party, you can't go very wrong here. 2. Nice pictures and pretty text. Quotes from the Downton series characters. Can we ever get enough of Dowager Countess Violet? 3. Downton Abbey photos for fanbois and fangurls (that is, nearly everybody) and nice pictures of the food. Not so good: 1. The recipe for Caneles; you'll not get far with this one, and there's no picture of the finished cakelet, so you have no idea that it's made in a small, more tall than wide fluted mold rather like a baba mold, and the traditional lining of the mold includes beeswax with the butter to get a thick crust of caramelization with release. (Butter alone would absorb more and make less of a crust.) My suggestion, if you're determined to make these, find a true French recipe, get the molds and don't attempt these in muffin cups. You'll be disappointed. The molds are available here! 2. No seed cake. This cake, flavored with caraway seeds, was a constant companion to tea tables. 3. The Dacquoise: you're better off using Juila Child's monumental production (which is detailed) if you want a good result. It's a challenging cake (so worth it) so don't waste time here. 4. The sandwich section is thin. No tomato, no cress. It's ok, but if you are a fan of the more savory portion of the tea table, this is a bit limited. 5. Surprisingly sketchy about tea. Nothing for you on selecting and brewing tea. You're going to pop in a bag of PG Tips, right? Tea has so much more than that: a good Darjeeling (loose leave) or Assam or Keemun is available many places and brewed properly, is nothing like bag tea. I make "real tea" for friends who stop by and they never get over the fact it tastes and refreshes like nothing else. Use filtered water, please. The tea in bags, btw is dust called "fannings" left over from tea production and lately it's even worse than before, many tea drinkers have noticed how the flavor and strength of their favorite "builder's tea" (dark brown brew lashed with milk and sugar) is now not very satisfying. 6. Table of contents is sketchy. I like more detail and page numbers. Summary: good recipes for the classic British cakes and tarts and puddings, Missing some key things. Gift worthy for tea and Downton lovers.

Outstanding recipes, very clear and approachable.

This is a great cookbook. Perfect for bakers who want to have tea parties with little girls! My daughter-in-law absolutely loved it. It is also beautiful. The cover has a canvas fill and looks like a very high-end book. Makes a great gift!

Beautiful little book. Bound in cloth, embossed in silver metallic. Photos are works of art of original set. Recipes are all the wonderful with goodies and sandwiches seen on the show. This book is a work of art and now that Maggie Smith has passed on, will appreciate in value. This book exceeds anything that would be made here in America. With the price, they are giving it away. I thought that when I bought the first ones and think so even more today. I could say a lot more. If I could buy the entire stock, I would and sell them at 50.00 to 65.00 a book.

Lots of interesting tea and etiquette trivia. The recipes are wonderful and the photographs depict the finished products perfectly. I'm looking forward to baking a couple of the recipes and compare them with the ones I use. Definitely an enjoyable book to read and a good addition to any cookbook collection. I highly recommend it.

J'aime beaucoup la série Downton Abbey, la Belle-époque me fascine par son faste apparent et l'arrivée de l'ère industrielle. J'aime également beaucoup manger. Un livre de recettes sur l'heure du thé à Downton Abbey était donc parfait. Ce livre de recettes de 140 pages est séparé en plusieurs chapitres. Nous découvrons l'art du thé, les pâtisseries, les sandwichs et les tartinables (confitures et marmelades). Chaque recette est accompagnée d'une illustration du résultat ou de la série. Il est dommage que les étapes de la préparation ne soient pas illustrées, certaines recettes complexes pourront nécessiter une recherche complémentaires en cas de doute. Le livre ici présenté (vert sapin) est l'édition de lixe. La version vert menthe est l'édition stndard mais le contenu est identique.

A beautiful little book with lovely, classic recipes. Looks great in my kitchen display with its classy green binding A lovely gift also.

Receitas fáceis, gostosas e bonitas. Para quem gosta de cozinhar. Para quem sabe cozinhar. Tudo bem explicado, passo a passo simples de ser seguido

Premesso che compro qualsiasi cosa riguardi Downtown, devo dire che questo piccolo libro insieme a quello dei cocktails, può essere interessante per chiunque. Io che non so cucinare assolutamente nulla, ho imparato a preparare i deliziosi scones. Certo, per noi fans di Downtown c'è un motivo più per acquistarlo, vale a dire le splendide fotografie dei personaggi contenuti in esso. Particolarmente interessante il capitolo dedicato alle confetture.