[.ca] Gifts to Make and Eat (ISBN 1550749560)

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Stained glass fudge, shortbread valentines, truffle mice, chocolate spoons, and oatmeal muffins are just a few of the delicious recipes offered in Elizabeth MacLeod's Gifts to Make and Eat, which appealingly combines creative cooking with gift-giving. Not all of the recipes are sweet and high in calories. Spice mixes, flavored oils, vinegars, mustards, and soup mixes will certainly have great appeal for the adult cook (and palate) too. Cheerfully illustrated by June Bradford, Gifts to Make and Eat is quite grown-up in style and content. Still, it manages to instruct the young chef in some of the basic kitchen techniques that the seasoned cook takes for granted, such as "Wet ingredients and dry ingredients require different measuring cups," and "Bake cookies, muffins and loaves in the center of your oven." Once the treats are prepared, MacLeod shows how they can be attractively wrapped, in packaging that can often be recycled for useful or decorative purposes after the edible part of the gift is gone. (Ages 8 and older) --Martha Johnson