The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook Presents: A Magical Christmas Menu

by Dinah Bucholz

Sure, you can't be in Hogwarts Hall for the Christmas feast, but you can add some wizadry to your own holiday meal with this sample menu! The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook Presents: A Magical Christmas Menu includes 16 recipes guaranteed to enchant your friends and family this holiday season. From mouth-watering appetizers to decadent desserts and a steaming cup of Mrs. Weasley's Hot Chocolate, this season you can conjure a feast that would satisfy even Hagrid's hearty appetite!

Looking to celebrate the tastes of this magical world all-year round? Then check out the Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook eBook and Print editions!

Genres: Cookbooks, Harry Potter, Nonfiction, Food, Christmas, Reference, Cooking

25 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 8, 2010

About the author

Dinah Bucholz is the official author of The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook. Dinah was born to a large family and grew up in a small New York City suburb called Monsey. The most exciting things that happened in her childhood were getting her pony tail pulled by various brothers, also getting teased by the same, and enjoying spectacular good times and spectacular fights with her twin sisters.

Dinahs first experience with baking occurred when she received for her ninth birthday a toy mixer from her mom that actually worked. She mixed up a chocolate cake batter without following a recipe and then poured the brown glop into plastic bowls and set them in the oven. Thankfully, she forgot to turn the oven on.

Dinah went on to bake many more chocolate cakes and it wasnt long before she was making fine desserts and cooking delicious food had become a passion second only to eating it.

Today, Dinah lives in Philadelphia with her husband, and to the sorrow of her four children, no pets. She spends her time cooking and writing and wearing a professional-looking white chefs apron when she remembers to put it on."

Reviews

[Jerecho · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's official, it's a cookbook. With snippets from the Harry Potter books... It's nice though, but I hope I can try one of the recipe. Hoping it will not be a burned pansy....

[Latasha · Rating 5 out of 5]

The recipes are very basic but what’s fun is the author includes which HP book the food is mentioned in as well as a short history on the dish. I found that part more interesting than the recipes.

[Vikki · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mostly easy recipes

Most of these recipes seem easy. Lots of traditional Thanksgiving and Christmas recipes like turkey, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie.

[Eleni · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's basically a British cookbook with some fanciful recipes thrown in. To introduce recipes, the author mentions the book in which the recipe is first mentioned or the character who makes a particular item (Mrs. Weasley, for instance, or Hagrid, or Petunia Dursley). There are also tiny "scrolls" on the left hand side of each page that sometimes have really interesting historical information about certain foods.

I looked through it in order to find a handful of recipes that I think will be a fun addition to my handouts for my Potter course in the spring (plus a few extra recipes for me as I felt a bit nostalgic).

[Serfin J Naidelyn Alexia · Rating 5 out of 5]

It´s a fantastic book

[⟡SerafinNOdette⟡ · Rating 5 out of 5]

They are one of those books that one only looks for because of fanaticism

[Kristin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some good recipes :)

[Angie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Synopsis: "Free eBook Download!Sure, you can't be in Hogwarts Hall for the Christmas feast, but you can add some wizadry to your own holiday meal with this free e-book! The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook Presents: A Magical Christmas Menu includes 16 recipes guaranteed to enchant your friends and family this holiday season. From mouth-watering appetizers to decadent desserts and a steaming cup of Mrs. Weasley's Hot Chocolate, this season you can conjure a feast that would satisfy even Hagrid's hearty appetite!"

My Review: This was very interesting and would be fantastic for any big Harry Potter Fan. It gives a full several course menu with recipes for each item for a Hogwarts worthy Holiday dinner. I liked that each item had a brief description about where it appeared in the Harry Potter books and then an additional description of the history of the dish. There are several unique ideas and I am definitely making the creamy onion soup for either Thanksgiving or Christmas!

[Shelle Perry · Rating 5 out of 5]

I laughed when I started to read this cookbook. When reading the Harry Potter books, I thought to myself that food should be considered a character in the story and I am glad to see that I am not the only one who noticed. Find recipes, as well as real life history, for some of the Hogwarts favorite edibles in this fun holiday cookbook. Enjoy a traditional Christmas Pudding, Cornish Pasties, Peppermint Humbugs and other recipes. This is actually only a teaser for the full cookbook and only loosely tied to the Harry Potter books, however I found it fun.

[Andy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved the Harry Potter books and have even skimmed through The Tales of Beetle the Bard for "The Tale of the Three Brothers." Dinah Bucholz came out with The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook: From Cauldron Cakes to Knickerbocker Glory--More Than 150 Magical Recipes for Muggles and Wizards in September of 2010 and this little ebook copy, though it only covers "one" Christmas dinner menu, is still fascinating. I really want to try the Cornish Pasties and the Christmas Trifle.

[Kenyan · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love cooking, so this was a fun book! I successfully made some things, while others, particularly candy, turned out disastrously. If I had known more about candy making it would have been fine! I would definitely check this book out again!

[Barbara · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not what I expected

I was expecting recipes for items in the Harry Potter universe. Rather, this gives you recipes for regular Muggle meals that just happen to be mentioned in the books.

[JanieBug]

This appears to be a condensed version of the original book.

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[Perry Owler · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's Harry Potter...

I am an over the top Harry Potter fanatic! anything related to the series will make it to my collection.

[ray · Rating 4 out of 5]

Short, but good enough for Christmas

While you can find most of this in a usual cookbook, you can find plenty of new, potteresk things to try!

[Leah Smock · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ok in my fav.

You don't need to have a back round if you know Harry Potter you would know where the food is coming from

[Nancy Murphy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I grabbed this as a free ebook for my Kindle.... Found quite a few recipes that I need to try...... Really can't wait.

[Alexis Rearick · Rating 5 out of 5]

More recipies

Perfect awesome yummy and more. Enjoy some more awesome recipes. Pretty cool and amazing for any HP lover. Awesome yay

[Kathy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lovely recipes

This was fun to peruse! There are several recipes that I will gladly use! There was always such good looking food provided for the students.

[April · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute little historical notes and some interesting recipes for foods mentioned in the various Harry Potter books.

[N.A. Wolf · Rating 4 out of 5]

great recipe good with cute and funny passages

[Amanda Jones · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good recipes but..

Not as Harry Potter themed as I had hoped. Made some of these. They are pretty good. If you're not sure what to sat for xmas it has good tips.

[Diane Wachter · Rating 2 out of 5]

A Christmas feast that Harry Potter and the Weasley's might have enjoyed in the books. Will have to try some of the recipes. 2☆'s = Okay.

[Jungyun Shin · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Caleb Anderson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good and yummy

I think this has creative and fun ideas I think the names were super cool I recommend this to people who like to cook fun and easy things

[Anna Mari · Rating 5 out of 5]

Looking forward to making some of the recipes.... :)

Rating PG