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Mary's Household Tips and Tricks
  • Published: 2 October 2017
  • ISBN: 9780718185442
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $55.00
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Mary's Household Tips and Tricks

Your Guide to Happiness in the Home

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5 Oct 2017
Hardback
2 Oct 2017
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A personal and practical household how-to from Britain's original domestic goddess

'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.
  • Published: 2 October 2017
  • ISBN: 9780718185442
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $55.00
Categories:

About the author

Mary Berry

Dame Mary Berry is the nation's favourite baker and author of over 70 books, including the bestselling Mary Berry Cooks, Simple Comforts, Mary Berry's Baking Bible and Mary 90. She was the much-loved judge on the BBC's The Great British Bake Off and has been teaching the nation to cook for over four decades. Cordon Bleu trained in Paris, Mary began her career as a magazine cookery editor before publishing her first cookery book in 1966. Mary is also an AGA expert and taught AGA masterclasses for many years from her home with Lucy Young. In 2009 Mary was awarded the highly coveted Guild of Food Writers Lifetime Achievement Award and in 2012 she was made a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.
portrait photo of Mary Berry

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Mary All in One
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Mary Makes it Easy
Cook and Share
Love to Cook
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Praise for Mary's Household Tips and Tricks

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

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

Independent

It is such a beautiful thing. It's practical AND beautiful . . . almost like it's an ideal gift . . .

Graham Norton, BBC Radio 2

Good housekeeping - Baking queen Mary Berry steps out of the kitchen and offers a recipe for home happiness

Edinburgh Evening News