Mary Berry's New Aga Cookbook

Mary Berry is the Empress of Agas. She is as much a part of the Barbour jacket and wet dog scene as the Aga owners themselves. If you possess an Aga, the status symbol of the middle classes, then you will no doubt already own one of her books. In fact, they come free when you first buy this great cooking machine.

In this new edition, Mary Berry covers a wide range of updated recipes with special details about cooking them in the way unique to this two-hob, two (or four oven) phenomenon. However, the recipes are just as easily created on a conventional cooker and full instructions are given. For Aga virgins, there is an opening chapter entitled ‘Getting to Know Your Aga', with instructions ranging from installing an Aga to drying wet trainers in the warming oven.

Aga owners need little convincing that they possess the greatest cooker on earth, and this book will have you creating contemporary food. The instructions are straight forward and full of common sense. The photography is luscious and the results always spot on. Try Monkfish Provençale with Crisp Bacon Lardons.

But perhaps a book destined for Aga owners is all about the feel good factor. It confirms your suspicions that you are special, set apart from the riff-raff, when there is a book just for you. Mary Berry's New Aga Cookbook will answer your queries and give you plenty of new recipes.

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Publication Details:
240 pages. Photography by James Murphy. £20.
ISBN 074727357X. Published by Headline.
1999

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