At The Queen Victoria® we have been entertaining guests for nearly three decades. Since we serve breakfast to nearly seventy guests some mornings, we have developed many recipes which make entertaining such a large group as easy as possible. Guests often asked us to share recipes, and so The Queen Victoria® Cookbook was born.
The Queen Victoria® Cookbook features over eighty recipes for easy, elegant entertaining. It also includes recipes for a wide selection of sweets and savories for tea time as served in royal style at The Queen Victoria. First printed in 1992, the Cookbook has been so popular that the first printing of 5,000 copies sold out. Now available is the second printing, which has a few minor corrections discovered by eagle-eyed cooks.
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Recipes in the Cookbook include the following categories:
Entertaining a group is a challenge if you want to enjoy your guests. We don't like spending all our time at breakfast in the kitchen, and would rather be in the dining room enjoying our guests. Most of the recipes you will find in the Cookbook can be prepared in advance and kept warm on a buffet for easy, yet elegant entertaining. Other recipes for breads, cookies and spreads are improved by being prepared in advance and frozen or refrigerated to blend flavors before serving.
Most of the recipes in the Cookbook serve a larger number than the usual four people. You can, of course, reduce the quantities to serve a lesser number if your party or family is smaller. Even the bread and cookie recipes make a large amount. Use the extra to freeze for the future or to give away as gifts.
The Queen Victoria® Cookbook also includes comments also includes comments about each recipe by former Queen Victoria® Innkeepers, Joan and Dane. You can learn who shared the recipe with them, how it is served at The Queen Victoria, and some tips for preparing the recipes. We have always enjoyed simply reading cookbooks for entertainment, and these side comments make The Queen Victoria® Cookbook especially interesting.
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