Mary's Household Tips and Tricks: Your Guide to Happiness in the Home - Hardcover

Berry, Mary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0718185447 ISBN 13: 9780718185442

Publisher: Michael Joseph, 2017

Synopsis

Britain's best-loved cook and national treasure Mary Berry lets readers in on her very own household secrets . . . A comprehensive, beautifully illustrated guide that shares her greatest tips on how to care for your home.

'It's practical AND beautiful . . . an ideal gift ' Graham Norton, BBC Radio 2

'This book is a collection of skills I've learned for running a home. Gleaned from years of practical experience, along with all the hints that friends and family have imparted to me, I hope it will be a helping hand' - Mary Berry

Inside you'll find . . .

A KITCHEN KNOW-HOW for the heart of your home - Freezer tips - Organize your food - CLEANING & CONFIGURING YOUR HOME - Create cleaning products from store cupboard items - LAUNDRY & WARDROBE WISDOM - Banish moths from your home for good - Remove stains from every kind of fabric - get green fingered with GARDENING & FLOWERS - Bring greenery into your home even without a garden - Create beautiful flower arrangements - And finally master the art of HOSTING & ADDING THE EXTRA TOUCHES for sparkling parties at home.

Easy to use, practical and gorgeously illustrated, Mary's Household Tips & Tricks covers everything from Mary's golden rules for baking to her favourite flowers for each season, from how to polish silver to whether tea should be poured before or after milk. With secrets for accomplishing the most challenging home-keeping tasks with ease, Mary's wonderfully simple book will help turn any house into a home.

'The Queen of British baking has whipped up a recipe for home happiness' The Independent

'A domestic goddess' The Daily Telegraph

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Review:

Britain's best-loved cook and national treasure Mary Berry lets readers in on her household secrets . . . A comprehensive, beautifully illustrated guide that shares her greatest tips on how to care for your home.

'This book is a collection of skills I've learned for running a home. Gleaned from years of practical experience, along with all the hints that friends and family have imparted to me, I hope it will be a helping hand' - Mary Berry

(From the publisher's description)

It is such a beautiful thing. It's practical AND beautiful . . . almost like it's an ideal gift . . . (Graham Norton BBC Radio 2)

The Queen of British Baking has whipped up a recipe for 'home happiness' in her new book (Independent)

Mary Berry lives and breathes good old-fashioned values, with a dash of steely trail-blazing (Guardian)

Mary Berry offers no-nonsense assessments like a blunt but loving auntie (Washington Post)

Good housekeeping - Baking queen Mary Berry steps out of the kitchen and offers a recipe for home happiness (Edinburgh Evening News)

From the Back Cover:

'This book is a collection of skills I've learnt for running a home. Gleaned from years of practical experience, along with all the hints that friends and family have imparted to me, I hope it will be a helping hand' - Mary Berry

Inside you'll find tips on how to:

Order your freezer - Store and organize your food - Create cleaning products from store cupboard items - Make a bed in no time - Banish moths from your home for good - Remove stains from every kind of fabric - Bring greenery into your home even if you have no garden - Create beautiful flower arrangements - Set a formal dining table - Be a fantastic host at dinner parties - Make thoughtful homemade and edible gifts - Prepare your home for Christmas - Write thank you letters

Easy to use, practical and beautifully illustrated, Mary's Household Tips & Tricks covers everything from Mary's golden rules for baking to her favourite flowers for each season, from how to polish silver to whether tea should be poured before or after the milk. With secrets for accomplishing the most challenging home-keeping tasks with ease, Mary's wonderfully simple book will help turn any house into a home.

About this edition

• Publisher: Michael Joseph
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0718185447
• ISBN 13: 9780718185442
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304