The London Ritz Book of Afternoon Tea
by Helen Simpson
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Book Reviews of The London Ritz Book of Afternoon Tea
Book Review: Not what I expected
Summary: 1 Stars
I am glad I got this book used; I was disappointed. I thought the book was gonna be about Teatime, the various types of teas and a few recipes that I could do at home and how I can do my own teatime at home or a party. It was kinda like that but it was very clinical in a way and it was not very interesting to look at; it doesn't tell you how to really do your own or host a party at all. Its more of a straight forward history lesson more than anything else. There are no color pics, just illustrations were drawn and of old Victorian scenes, mono-color and there were no color pics of the recipes except drawn in ink. It was not very modern, which I think was what was missing. If I had paid full price, I would probably have sent it back.Book Review: The Best Resource for Tradition as well as Recipes!
Summary: 5 Stars
A friend and I have recently begun taking tea and we love the true British and Victorian style of tea houses. I wanted to find a book for her that was a great resource on the history of afternoon and high tea as well as providing some recipes to go along with the information. This was the best book I found. No other goes into as much detail about the history of tea that this book does. The only downfall is that the only illustrations in the book are line drawings. There are no photos. Still, that didn't keep me from picking this book over several others that did have nice pictures, because in the end, the content of this book superceded any other.Book Review: Sacrificed Quality for the Sake of "Pretty"
Summary: 1 Stars
Unfortunately this book fell way short. It had a lot of recipes in a type of font that was so fancy you couldn't read it. I think they valued the curly cues of the font more than the legibility. The majority of time they squeezed two recipes on one page in a 4 x 5.5 book.
I understand Afternoon Tea is supposed to be delicate and dainty, but does a book on Afternoon Tea have to be delicate and dainty too, or can it be a little more practical. I felt I needed to have some form of chiffon on my body just to read the book, which I couldn't read because the typeface is too small.
Book Review: Nice book.
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a nice little primer on teas, including a history of tea, tea through the ages, and of course recipes.The recipes are given in both metric and "American" measures. Most of the recipes I tried worked such as scones, drop scones, gingerbread, potted shrimp, devilled ham on toast rounds, the "english" muffins, crumpets, lemon curd, rock cakes (no they don't contain rocks!), the Dundee cake and most of the savoury recipes. A few did not such as the Madeira cake and the Victoria Sponge.
All in all it's a nice little book.
Book Review: Old Fashioned Elegance
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved the book and would have given it extra stars if it were posible. Have tried most of the recipes and none of them have been duds. Have eaten in a number of tea shops here in the good ol' U.S. of A. and abroad and I can honestly say that what you produce from the recipes here are far superior to most of the items served there.
The recipes also served as great resource material as I started trying out other cookbook recipes and used the Ritz ones as the basis for any comparisons.