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There are rites of passage of a literary childhood. Charlotte’s Web. Where the Red Fern Grows. The Phantom Tollbooth. Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing. The Secret Garden. These books stay with you for years, growing inside your mind and your soul to become a part of your DNA. The memories from these classics become a part of the fabric of life, popping up from time to time, when you need a moment of comfort or encouragement, or when you see your kids (or nieces, nephews, friends’ kids) going through those same moments in childhood that resonate with you.

Now you can bring The Secret Garden to life even more, for you and for the kids you love. The Secret Garden Cookbook is available with 50 recipes that will transport you back to the pages of the book, where Mary finds a secret garden and nurses it back to health, as those who care for her nurse her back to health with hearty foods cooked to help her grow and with fresh garden vegetables to increase her health.

Starting with the Yorkshire Breakfasts, you can indulge in Perfect Porridge with Brown Sugar and Butter, Coddled Eggs, and Little Sausage Cakes. A Manor Lunch includes Yorkshire Pudding, Roasted Chicken with Bread Sauce, and Jam Roly Poly. And then there’s a chapter on an English Tea, because what could go better with a British literary classic? You can share A Perfect Pot of Tea, Cucumber Tea Sandwiches, Warm Cranberry Scones with Orange Glaze, and Lemon Curd Tartlets.

A chapter on vegetables Straight from the Garden is next, with Spring Peas with Fresh Mint, Sweet Glazed Carrots, and Summer Berry Pudding. Then there is Dickon’s Cottage Food, like Tattie Broth, Yorkshire Oatcakes, and The Best Sticky Gingerbread Parkin. After that, we take a trip to India to taste some of the foods Mary grew up on, like Mulligatawny Soup, Little Bacon and Cilantro Pancakes, and Florence Nightingale’s Kedgeree. The final chapter encourages a Garden Picnic, with recipes for Cozy Currant Buns, English Crumpets, Cornish pasties, and Jammy Chocolate Balls.

Along with the tasty recipes, The Secret Garden Cookbook also serves up tidbits of English history at the time of The Secret Garden, some information about the region of England where the book takes place, and lots of interesting facts about the foods available back then and how they were prepared, served, and eaten. The cookbook is also liberally sprinkled with quotes from the book, to help bring together the foods and the stories in ways that bring them both to life.

Book nerds of all ages and fans of The Secret Garden will find a deeper connection to the children’s book that they love through the recipes and stories in The Secret Garden Cookbook. Sharing these foods with the kids in your life will also help them fall more in love with the book and learn a little about the history of Victorian England, whether they want to or not. This is a really beautiful cookbook and a fun experience, and something special for the bookish kid in us all.

Galleys for The Secret Garden Cookbook were provided by Quarto Publishing Group through NetGalley, but I loved it so much I bought a copy for myself.

I've always appreciated it when an author mentions food in their books especially when it finds its way scattered throughout a read, taking pleasure in imagining not only what the food looks like but how it would taste as well. The Secret Garden has always been a favored classic for me so I was excited to see what all a cookbook about this magical read would include. I soon found myself immersed in this delightful cookbook, filled with the foods I've found myself imaging every time I peruse it. The wonderful thing about this compilation of recipes is it gives me the chance to bring those wonderful pleasures to life. For people who enjoy the written word as well as having a love for cooking/baking this is a definite must read for you. It brings to life the book that so many enjoy and have fallen in love with but through the language of food. There were so many recipes that I wanted to try so I picked out a handful of my favorites. I've heard of Crumpets before but have never actually had one so I new it was a must to try and I can say it turned out well and tasted delicious. I look forward to making them in the future. Currant Buns were another this g I was familiar with but had never tried, this recipe is a new favorite for me, I've actually made it several times since reading the book. You'll soon want to have a tea party of your own so you can bring some wonderful creations to life. This lovely read not only taught me some new things but kept the original book in my mind throughout. It definitely added to my experience of The Secret Garden.

Love all the Victorian anecdotes. Such a fun cookbook to read and enjoy. Who doesn’t remember the secret garden. Cute cookbook

i had to read this book for school and at the rate that the teacher would tell us to read it was sooooooooo boring, but then i saw the movie and i loved the movie

I thought that this was a very good cookbook. This is a particularly excellent choice for a cookbook collector or a devoted fan of The Secret Garden book. I loved the overall visual appeal of the book. The recipe pictures look tasty and I found the other graphics simply charming and very well fitting to the theme of this cookbook. As for the recipes, there is a nice variety included. Breakfast, lunch, dinner and sweets are all covered. Plus you get recipes that are specific to an English, tea, from the garden, cottage foods, picnic pleasers and even a section that provides a taste of India. Some of my favorite recipes are the warm cranberry scones with orange glaze, the Cornish pasties, the little sausage cakes and the lemon curd tartlets. I am posting an independent, impartial review.

A very lovely cookbook that combines period-inspired recipes with fun facts about cooking and food during Victorian times. I appreciated how the book included information not only about what Mary would have eaten and had access to, but also about the types of food others such as Dickon or city dwellers would have eaten. I'm looking forward to trying a few of the recipes!

A cute cookery book to accompany the novel The Secret Garden, so includes 42 recipes from each of the main characters and settings plus excerpts from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

It contains seven chapters:
- Yorkshire Breakfasts
- A Manor Lunch
- An English Tea
- From the Kitchen Garden
- Dickon's Cottages Food
- A Taste of India
- Garden Picnics

The book contains mainly basic traditional English dishes such as Porridge, Yorkshire Puddings, Jam and Crumpets to name but a few. Whilst the book generally has the feel of an English cookery book, it does contain at least one American term for an ingredient and the descriptions of Yorkshire or the dishes themselves have a feeling of being from outside the UK.

Some of the recipes have accompanying photographs. Each recipe comes with an introduction, ingredients and steps to follow. The recipes include both imperial and metric terms.

I received this book from Netgalley in return for a honest review.

This recipe book is as enchanting as the novel. Lots of wonderful recipes from Yorkshire, but also from India. Far more interesting though are the bits of information strewn in between the recipes.

This is the perfect gift for any secret garden fan. It is a gorgeous cookbook with a wide varied of recipes. The directions are simple to follow and are accompanied with beautiful pictures.

Such a fun cookbook based on a child's book I loved growing up (and still love as an adult). The introduction made me think of how different food and cooking was during the Victorian time (and being very unfamiliar with British food). This is a book that I will use when theme baking with my 7 year old niece. It's great to read a bit of the history (Who Invented Teatime?) and the recipes are simple enough to do with my niece (under a very watchful eye of course).