Call the Midwife the Official Cookbook

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Call the Midwife: The Official Cookbook includes more than 100 beautiful photographs of featured recipes and stills from the show and dozens of memorable quotes from many of the series characters that viewers have come to know. Fans and food historians alike will appreciate not only the detailed references to the place each dish holds in the show’s storyline but also its greater contribution within England’s culinary history. From timeless classics of British cuisine like Treacle Sponge, Scones, and Toad in the Hole to such Call the Midwife–inspired dishes as Coconut Layer Cake, Iced Buns, and Gingerbread Not Men, these recipes capture both the quintessential dishes of midcentury Britain and the heart of this beloved show. Cover Title Page Contents Introduction: Food in Britain 1956–1970 Recipe Notes Large Cakes Coconut Layer Cake Coffee and Walnut Cake Sherry Cake Chocolate Button Cake Angel Cake Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Icing Strawberry Meringue Cake ESSAY: Commercial Confectionery Cherry Slab Rum Baba Light Ginger Cake Applesauce Cake Half-a-Pound Cake (Birthday Cake) Malt Loaf Small Cakes and Biscuits Coconut Macaroons Fairy Cakes Chocolate Krackolates Scones Iced Buns ESSAY: A Guide to Biscuits Shortbread Gingerbread Not Men Melting Moments Peppermint Sticks Banana Oat Biscuits ESSAY: Eating with the Nuns Dinner Dishes Chicken and Mushroom Pie Potato and Onion Pie Fish Pie Toad in the Hole Mulligatawny Soup Tomato Soup ESSAY: Overseas Influences Grapefruit Surprise Shrimp Cocktail Coq au Vin Chicken à la King Courgettes in Cream Creamed Spinach Molded Mash Buttered Carrots Cauliflower with Mint Sauce ESSAY: Breakfast Cold Collations Quiche Lorraine Cheese and Tomato Tartlets Green Salad Herring and Potato Salad ESSAY: Some Notes on Sandwiches A Giant Sandwich Loaf ESSAY: Drinks Sweets Treacle Sponge Bread and Butter Pudding Lemon Meringue Pie Banana Coronet Queen of Puddings Bakewell Tart Macaroni Pudding Chocolate Blancmange Fluffy Ruffle ESSAY: Behind the Scenes Banana Flowerpots Apple Strudel Rhubarb Crumble Fruit Fool Orange Orgies Ice Cream Sodas Black Forest Gâteau Knickerbocker Glory Pineapple Pavlova ESSAY: Christmas Christmas Specials Mince Pies Christmas Pudding Chocolate-Orange Yule Log Christmas Cake Marshmallow Snowman Caribbean Black Cake Nut Roast with Chestnut Stuffing Trifle ESSAY: A Call the Midwife Canapé Party Bibliography Acknowledgements Index Copyright