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The Pooh Cook Book
The famously rotund bear is happiest when in possession of a brimming pot of honey, but when it comes time for meals and smackerels, the residents of the Hundred Acre Wood need something a little more substantial. This delightful collection contains over fifty tried-and-true recipes for readers of all ages to make and enjoy, starting with Poohanpiglet pancakes and ending with a recipe for getting thin-with honey sauces, holiday treats, and dishes for every mealtime in between.
Forty years after its original publication, this updated and beautifully redesigned cookbook features quotes from the original books and Ernest H. Shepard's beloved drawings, which leap off the pages in full color.
Forty years after its original publication, this updated and beautifully redesigned cookbook features quotes from the original books and Ernest H. Shepard's beloved drawings, which leap off the pages in full color.
120 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1969
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December 8, 2025
**Note: This review is for the original, pub. 1969**
As a longtime literary cookbook lover, you can bet your bottom dollar that I will SNAP up every edition I can find, especially one that's 55+ years old. This is my oldest book-themed cookbook and I will treasure it always.
We begin with a short introduction to Pooh and his relationship with food before we transition into the recipe sections - ranging from time-based, to adventure-based, to holiday-based.
Recipes Include:
--Marmalade on a Honeycomb (there's a quote where Pooh says he eats this, I like how the author tells us not to swallow the wax)
--Poohanpiglet Pancakes (serve with honey sauces, honey butter or syrup)
--Scrambled Eggs (to be done over a double boiler, add bacon (don't tell piglet!!))
--Popovers for Piglet (light, crispy, and slightly sweet breakfast baked good)
--Apricot Honey Bread and Muffins (make either bread or muffins, depending on the cooking tin)
--Minted Honey Banana Bread (what, you never wanted minty bananas for breakfast?)
--Muffins, Plain or Blueberry (or huckleberries)
--Making Butter (old-fashioned style, with heavy whipping cream!)
Smackerels, Elevenses, and Teas: The wait between breakfast and lunch, or between lunch and dinner can be un-bear-able for Pooh! Luckily, there's these recipes to help tide over a hungry bear! Plenty of fun drinks, tiny baked goods, and fun in this section!
Recipes Include:
--Honey Hot Chocolate
--Honey Milk Punch (honey, milk, nutmeg and...foamy eggs? Apparently you can make custard with the leftovers)
--Honey Berry Lemonade
--Homemade Snow and Honey (basically, honey-flavored snow cone)
--Lemon/Raspberry Ice Punch
--A Very Nearly Tea (using carrot tops or parsley, honey, orange juice and lemon)
--Fairy Toast (bread, shaved thin, baked in oven at 250 until bread curls...and that's it)
--Ginger Ale and Ice Cream (root beer float but with ginger ale and honey)
--Oatmeal Wafers (make homemade oat flour, then roll in oats and shape)
--Honey Toffee Pennies (making homemade toffee in small penny-shapes)
--Honey Toffee Apples (make honey toffee and dip apples in it before it cools)
--Easy Honey Buns (using refrigerated dough and peanuts)
--Cream Scones (plain scones, made with cream)
Provisions for Picnics and Expotitions: Pooh and his friends rarely miss an opportunity for adventuring, but they can't leave without provisions! Getting hungry in the woods is no joke - luckily we have these recipes for on-the-go meals (though, if Piglet is coming, maybe skip the ham and cheese sandwiches!)
Recipes Include:
--Watercress Sandwiches (kind of like an egg salad with greens on top)
--Radish Sandwiches (young radishes, bread and butter pickles, and mayonnaise)
--Ham and Cheese Sandwiches (oh gosh. Let's ignore this one.)
--Deviled Eggs (flavored with paprika and parsley flowerets)
--Cucumber or Mastershalum Leaf Sandwiches (thinly sliced cucumbers or a type of edible flowering plant)
--Peanut Butter, Bacon, and Honey Sandwiches (ANOTHER ONE? Poor Piglet)
Lunch and Suppers: Oh to be a little bear with a world full of culinary possibilities ahead of you. Lots of fun, unique items (might be a bit too unique in some cases) but overall, delicious! Pooh, Piglet and the gang will enjoy dining with you (again, you probably should leave out the bacon and ham ones!)
Recipes Include:
--Tomato Soup (much more complicated than Campbell's)
--Pea-Bean Alphabet Soup (dried beans, lentils, split peas, beef marrow, ham bone and much more)
--Quick Corn and Shrimp Chowder
--Hot Potato Salad with Tuna Fish
--Haycorn Squash (essentially, stuffed green peppers but using acorn squash)
--Lamb Patties with Mint Sauce
--Cottleston Pie (ham and cheese pie (poor Piglet))
--Spinach and Bacon (basically, spinach salad (also, back to back on Piglet)
--Creamed Salmon on Crackers
--Jelly Omelet (yup. Spooning jelly onto an egg omelet)
Desert and Party Recipes: After a long day of eating, Pooh is ready to kick back, relax and enjoy a dessert (or three). Lots of fun ways to use up the honey whether it be pies, icing, or other fun baked goods!
Recipes Include:
--Colored Honey
--Fruited Honey (fruit, in a jar with honey)
--Fruit or Berry Whip (whipped cream with berries)
--Honey Chocolate Pie
--Cherry Pie
--Blueberry Pie (blueberries with white grapes as well!)
--Hipy Papy Bthuthdth Thuthda Bthuthdy Cake I (plain butter cake, no vanilla)
--Hipy Papy Bthuthdth Thuthda Bthuthdy Cake II (bit fancier, raised with baking powder and baking soda)
--Pink Honey Buttercream Frosting
--Honey Chocolate Icing
--Honey Custard (baked custard, not ice cream custard)
Christmas Specialties: What's Christmas without a few special treats! Many of these recipes are self-explanatory and sweetened with honey for a certain little bear. Looks like fun!
Recipes Include:
--Christmas Honey Wafers (using 'nutmeats' and molasses for flavoring, requires boiling)
--Christmas Nut Cookies
--Honey Gingerbread Cookies
--Honey Oatmeal Cookies
--Coconut Honey Cookies
--Honey Milk Chocolate Fudge
--Honey Eggnog (using real eggs)
--Easy Christmas Candy (using honey!)
Honey Sauces: When you think you can't get enough honey...here's some honey sauces for you. Honestly, some of them kind of sound yummy though...I can't say that I've ever desired to make a honey sauce. Maybe I should start!
Recipes Include:
--Honey Chocolate Sauce
--Honey Nut Butter
--Honey Sauce I (honey and cream)
--Honey Sauce II (honey, unsweetened juice, condensed milk)
--A Recipe for Getting Thin (blank, no text)
Overall Thoughts:
Okay, right off the bat, Virginia Ellison you gotta nix the pork recipes . Yes, ham sandwiches are delicious. Yes, bacon makes most dishes better...BUT think of the optics. You can't advertise pork products when Pooh's best friend is Piglet.
*ahem* Back to the review:
As far as a literary cookbook goes, it's pretty dang good.
I really appreciate how the author includes a quote with every recipe as well as line art from the original books. It's fun to see Pooh and friends dancing along the pages and the quotes are a nice way to ground the source material with the cookbook.
The connection between the original books and the recipes can be a bit tenuous. Sometimes, the author directly pulls from the source material like for her Watercress Sandwiches:
Even so, I would have loved to see a sentence or two describing why each recipe was included.
Sometimes, I can guess why the recipe is in there, like for Radish Sandwiches (which has a quote about bee stings), and radishes are known for having a bit of a 'bite' to them...but in situations like Deviled eggs or the Quick Corn and Shrimp Chowder, I don't know why they are in the literary cookbook.
At the end of the day, I do feel rather pleased with this cookbook. It's one of the first literary cookbooks published, so it gets a bit of a pass for some of my more nit-picky complaints and it's a neat little time capsule into the common recipes of the day.
As a longtime literary cookbook lover, you can bet your bottom dollar that I will SNAP up every edition I can find, especially one that's 55+ years old. This is my oldest book-themed cookbook and I will treasure it always.
We begin with a short introduction to Pooh and his relationship with food before we transition into the recipe sections - ranging from time-based, to adventure-based, to holiday-based.
Breakfasts: Pooh is quite the fan of breakfasts - though his often are 90% honey. While several of these are flavored with honey, there are also savory, hearty dishes to help balance the sweetness.
"The Pooh Cook Book is particularly useful for special occasions, real or invented, and meant to make what might be an ordinary day into a festive one..."
Recipes Include:
--Marmalade on a Honeycomb (there's a quote where Pooh says he eats this, I like how the author tells us not to swallow the wax)
--Poohanpiglet Pancakes (serve with honey sauces, honey butter or syrup)
--Scrambled Eggs (to be done over a double boiler, add bacon (don't tell piglet!!))
--Popovers for Piglet (light, crispy, and slightly sweet breakfast baked good)
--Apricot Honey Bread and Muffins (make either bread or muffins, depending on the cooking tin)
--Minted Honey Banana Bread (what, you never wanted minty bananas for breakfast?)
--Muffins, Plain or Blueberry (or huckleberries)
--Making Butter (old-fashioned style, with heavy whipping cream!)
Smackerels, Elevenses, and Teas: The wait between breakfast and lunch, or between lunch and dinner can be un-bear-able for Pooh! Luckily, there's these recipes to help tide over a hungry bear! Plenty of fun drinks, tiny baked goods, and fun in this section!
Recipes Include:
--Honey Hot Chocolate
--Honey Milk Punch (honey, milk, nutmeg and...foamy eggs? Apparently you can make custard with the leftovers)
--Honey Berry Lemonade
--Homemade Snow and Honey (basically, honey-flavored snow cone)
--Lemon/Raspberry Ice Punch
--A Very Nearly Tea (using carrot tops or parsley, honey, orange juice and lemon)
--Fairy Toast (bread, shaved thin, baked in oven at 250 until bread curls...and that's it)
--Ginger Ale and Ice Cream (root beer float but with ginger ale and honey)
--Oatmeal Wafers (make homemade oat flour, then roll in oats and shape)
--Honey Toffee Pennies (making homemade toffee in small penny-shapes)
--Honey Toffee Apples (make honey toffee and dip apples in it before it cools)
--Easy Honey Buns (using refrigerated dough and peanuts)
--Cream Scones (plain scones, made with cream)
Provisions for Picnics and Expotitions: Pooh and his friends rarely miss an opportunity for adventuring, but they can't leave without provisions! Getting hungry in the woods is no joke - luckily we have these recipes for on-the-go meals (though, if Piglet is coming, maybe skip the ham and cheese sandwiches!)
Recipes Include:
--Watercress Sandwiches (kind of like an egg salad with greens on top)
--Radish Sandwiches (young radishes, bread and butter pickles, and mayonnaise)
--Ham and Cheese Sandwiches (oh gosh. Let's ignore this one.)
--Deviled Eggs (flavored with paprika and parsley flowerets)
--Cucumber or Mastershalum Leaf Sandwiches (thinly sliced cucumbers or a type of edible flowering plant)
--Peanut Butter, Bacon, and Honey Sandwiches (ANOTHER ONE? Poor Piglet)
Lunch and Suppers: Oh to be a little bear with a world full of culinary possibilities ahead of you. Lots of fun, unique items (might be a bit too unique in some cases) but overall, delicious! Pooh, Piglet and the gang will enjoy dining with you (again, you probably should leave out the bacon and ham ones!)
Recipes Include:
--Tomato Soup (much more complicated than Campbell's)
--Pea-Bean Alphabet Soup (dried beans, lentils, split peas, beef marrow, ham bone and much more)
--Quick Corn and Shrimp Chowder
--Hot Potato Salad with Tuna Fish
--Haycorn Squash (essentially, stuffed green peppers but using acorn squash)
--Lamb Patties with Mint Sauce
--Cottleston Pie (ham and cheese pie (poor Piglet))
--Spinach and Bacon (basically, spinach salad (also, back to back on Piglet)
--Creamed Salmon on Crackers
--Jelly Omelet (yup. Spooning jelly onto an egg omelet)
Desert and Party Recipes: After a long day of eating, Pooh is ready to kick back, relax and enjoy a dessert (or three). Lots of fun ways to use up the honey whether it be pies, icing, or other fun baked goods!
Recipes Include:
--Colored Honey
--Fruited Honey (fruit, in a jar with honey)
--Fruit or Berry Whip (whipped cream with berries)
--Honey Chocolate Pie
--Cherry Pie
--Blueberry Pie (blueberries with white grapes as well!)
--Hipy Papy Bthuthdth Thuthda Bthuthdy Cake I (plain butter cake, no vanilla)
--Hipy Papy Bthuthdth Thuthda Bthuthdy Cake II (bit fancier, raised with baking powder and baking soda)
--Pink Honey Buttercream Frosting
--Honey Chocolate Icing
--Honey Custard (baked custard, not ice cream custard)
Christmas Specialties: What's Christmas without a few special treats! Many of these recipes are self-explanatory and sweetened with honey for a certain little bear. Looks like fun!
Recipes Include:
--Christmas Honey Wafers (using 'nutmeats' and molasses for flavoring, requires boiling)
--Christmas Nut Cookies
--Honey Gingerbread Cookies
--Honey Oatmeal Cookies
--Coconut Honey Cookies
--Honey Milk Chocolate Fudge
--Honey Eggnog (using real eggs)
--Easy Christmas Candy (using honey!)
Honey Sauces: When you think you can't get enough honey...here's some honey sauces for you. Honestly, some of them kind of sound yummy though...I can't say that I've ever desired to make a honey sauce. Maybe I should start!
Recipes Include:
--Honey Chocolate Sauce
--Honey Nut Butter
--Honey Sauce I (honey and cream)
--Honey Sauce II (honey, unsweetened juice, condensed milk)
--A Recipe for Getting Thin (blank, no text)
Overall Thoughts:
Okay, right off the bat, Virginia Ellison you gotta nix the pork recipes . Yes, ham sandwiches are delicious. Yes, bacon makes most dishes better...BUT think of the optics. You can't advertise pork products when Pooh's best friend is Piglet.
*ahem* Back to the review:
As far as a literary cookbook goes, it's pretty dang good.
I really appreciate how the author includes a quote with every recipe as well as line art from the original books. It's fun to see Pooh and friends dancing along the pages and the quotes are a nice way to ground the source material with the cookbook.
The connection between the original books and the recipes can be a bit tenuous. Sometimes, the author directly pulls from the source material like for her Watercress Sandwiches:
I LOVE it when there's a direct connection between the recipes and the original book. However, sometimes the author gets a bit more creative, such as for her Poohanpiglet Pancakes:
"...she [Kanga] had sent them out with a packet of watercress sandwiches for Roo..."
I will say, that most of the recipes are the latter (where the connection is a bit abstract or lean) but considering how the source material is a bit light on the variety of foods mentioned, I do feel like there has to be some sort of compromise between the breadth of recipes needed and involving the source material every step of the way.
"I've been finding things in the Forest," said Tigger importantly. "I've found a pooh and piglet and an eeyore, but I can't find any breakfast."
Even so, I would have loved to see a sentence or two describing why each recipe was included.
Sometimes, I can guess why the recipe is in there, like for Radish Sandwiches (which has a quote about bee stings), and radishes are known for having a bit of a 'bite' to them...but in situations like Deviled eggs or the Quick Corn and Shrimp Chowder, I don't know why they are in the literary cookbook.
At the end of the day, I do feel rather pleased with this cookbook. It's one of the first literary cookbooks published, so it gets a bit of a pass for some of my more nit-picky complaints and it's a neat little time capsule into the common recipes of the day.
December 9, 2025
**Note: This is for the updated cookbook, pub. 2010**
We still same seven main sections: Breakfasts; Smackerels, Elevenses, & Tea; Provisions for Picnics & Expotitions; Lunches & Suppers; Desserts & Party Recipes; Winter Delights (formerly: Christmas Specialties); and Honey Sauces. And many of recipes appear identical as well.
So if you have the original and love it, you may not necessarily want to upgrade your copy. However, if you are undecided, here are a few key components that appear in the 2010 version that might tip you in its favor:
Illustrations and Formatting
One really nice thing about the 2010 version is the quality of paper, the colored illustrations of Pooh and friends, and overall more visually appealing layout.
While the pictures and quotes accompanying the recipes are identical to the ones used in the 1969 version, it's a lot more fun to have the cookbook as a full-color experience.
The Recipes
The recipes are also similar but there are some key differences. For a complete list of recipes see the Original 1969 Cookbook Review
Below are the main differences between the 1969 and 2010 versions:
--Scrambled eggs are eliminated
--Making Butter is now Sweet Butter (similar recipe, both essentially make unsalted butter (no sweetner added)
--A Very Nearly Tea now has the two versions better labeled (carrot-top tea and parsley tea)
--Oatmeal Wafers now suggests buying oat flour instead of making your own (does still have the option, if you want to).
--Ham and Cheese Sandwiches with Honey Mustard are now TURKEY and Cheese with Honey Mustard (I think this is a wise choice, taking into consideration Piglet's feelings)
--Peanut Butter, Bacon, and Honey Sandwiches are now Peanut Butter, BANANA, and Honey Sandwiches (again, smart move for this cookbook)
--Pea-Bean Alphabet Soup goes from 1 beef bone and 1 ham bone to 2 beef bones (Good idea)
--Cottleson Pie now recommends chicken, broccoli or filling of your choice instead of 3/4 cup ham
--Spinach and Bacon is eliminated
--Honey Custard is eliminated
--Christmas Honey Wafers are now Holiday Honey Wafers (same recipe)
--Christmas Nut Cookies are now Festive Nut Cookies (same recipe)
--Easy Christmas Candy is now Easy Honey Candy (same recipe)
Ultimately, this cookbook eiminates references to eating pork products, gets rid of a handful of recipes, and renames a few to make them more general rather than Christmas-oriented.
I definitely think swapping out pork-related recipes made sense given Piglet's popularity but I'm not as sure about swapping out references to Christmas. Pooh and friends do celebrate Christmas, so why eliminate that reference?
Additionally, when they re-did the recipe, I think it would have been smart to eliminate a few of the more...dated...recipes and provide alternatives. Stuff like the Jelly Omelet, Creamed Salmon or Hot Potato and Tuna Salad are rather niche and/or unpopular with modern cooking trends and they don't seem to play a role in the original material... so why keep them?
Given that this cookbook is geared towards children, I think it would have been wiser to find better alternatives. I'm not saying to throw in dino nuggies but surely there's a compromise available.
I will start off by saying that there is a lot of overlap between the 1969 and 2010 cookbooks.
"We hope it will be a hummy sort of day inside whenever you use the Pooh Cook Book."
We still same seven main sections: Breakfasts; Smackerels, Elevenses, & Tea; Provisions for Picnics & Expotitions; Lunches & Suppers; Desserts & Party Recipes; Winter Delights (formerly: Christmas Specialties); and Honey Sauces. And many of recipes appear identical as well.
So if you have the original and love it, you may not necessarily want to upgrade your copy. However, if you are undecided, here are a few key components that appear in the 2010 version that might tip you in its favor:
Illustrations and Formatting
One really nice thing about the 2010 version is the quality of paper, the colored illustrations of Pooh and friends, and overall more visually appealing layout.
While the pictures and quotes accompanying the recipes are identical to the ones used in the 1969 version, it's a lot more fun to have the cookbook as a full-color experience.
The Recipes
The recipes are also similar but there are some key differences. For a complete list of recipes see the Original 1969 Cookbook Review
Below are the main differences between the 1969 and 2010 versions:
--Scrambled eggs are eliminated
--Making Butter is now Sweet Butter (similar recipe, both essentially make unsalted butter (no sweetner added)
--A Very Nearly Tea now has the two versions better labeled (carrot-top tea and parsley tea)
--Oatmeal Wafers now suggests buying oat flour instead of making your own (does still have the option, if you want to).
--Ham and Cheese Sandwiches with Honey Mustard are now TURKEY and Cheese with Honey Mustard (I think this is a wise choice, taking into consideration Piglet's feelings)
--Peanut Butter, Bacon, and Honey Sandwiches are now Peanut Butter, BANANA, and Honey Sandwiches (again, smart move for this cookbook)
--Pea-Bean Alphabet Soup goes from 1 beef bone and 1 ham bone to 2 beef bones (Good idea)
--Cottleson Pie now recommends chicken, broccoli or filling of your choice instead of 3/4 cup ham
--Spinach and Bacon is eliminated
--Honey Custard is eliminated
--Christmas Honey Wafers are now Holiday Honey Wafers (same recipe)
--Christmas Nut Cookies are now Festive Nut Cookies (same recipe)
--Easy Christmas Candy is now Easy Honey Candy (same recipe)
Ultimately, this cookbook eiminates references to eating pork products, gets rid of a handful of recipes, and renames a few to make them more general rather than Christmas-oriented.
I definitely think swapping out pork-related recipes made sense given Piglet's popularity but I'm not as sure about swapping out references to Christmas. Pooh and friends do celebrate Christmas, so why eliminate that reference?
Additionally, when they re-did the recipe, I think it would have been smart to eliminate a few of the more...dated...recipes and provide alternatives. Stuff like the Jelly Omelet, Creamed Salmon or Hot Potato and Tuna Salad are rather niche and/or unpopular with modern cooking trends and they don't seem to play a role in the original material... so why keep them?
Given that this cookbook is geared towards children, I think it would have been wiser to find better alternatives. I'm not saying to throw in dino nuggies but surely there's a compromise available.
May 8, 2018
My dad picked up a vintage copy of this book for me several years ago. A huge fan of Winnie the Pooh (obviously), I enjoyed seeing the recipes inspired by the series. This cookbook is less of a direct from the stories cookbook and more of a honey recipe book. I haven't used it too many times but I really liked the mint honey banana bread. I hate bananas and I like banana bread mostly for the sweet outside but this one is actually good. There are recipes for Pooh an' Piglet pancakes for breakfast, tea treats like the banana bread and sweets like HIPY PAPY BTHETHDTH THUTHDA BTHUTHDY cake. The final recipe is my favorite. ;-) You'll have to look at the book to see what that is.
The cookbook is illustrated with E.H. Shepherd's line drawings of Pooh and friends and not Disney's overly cutesy stylized designs.
The cookbook is illustrated with E.H. Shepherd's line drawings of Pooh and friends and not Disney's overly cutesy stylized designs.
cookbook-on-trial
July 6, 2018This is one of the three cookbooks picked up in my renewed effort to teach the kid to cook. It's high time at 7, right? I guess we'll need to stock up on honey for this one...
p. 9 - 4 stars - Muffins, Plain or Blueberry - I expected the dough to turn out a little more... fluid. But we dutifully packed it into muffin cups. The result is a bit dry, but very good for a first cooking experience.
p. 9 - 4 stars - Muffins, Plain or Blueberry - I expected the dough to turn out a little more... fluid. But we dutifully packed it into muffin cups. The result is a bit dry, but very good for a first cooking experience.
November 12, 2019
I found this gem of a cookbook at my library when I was looking for a book I needed for my Children's Lit class. I took it out on a whim, because, well, POOH! I copied down a few of the recipes, as they sounded yummy. But the best was the illustrations, and the quotes from the Pooh books that went with each recipe. It was a fun little book, and I'm quite glad I found it, even if by accident.
August 28, 2007
Simply a lovely cookbook for children with quotes and illustrations from the Milne books. I was excited to finally find a recipe for Cottleston Pie. My favorite chapter is Smackerals, Elevenses and Teas.
November 20, 2010
Cute factor is really high!! I loved Pooh growing up (both the classic and Disney versions) so I thought this was adorable. Many of the recipes are not very practical, but there are sweet pictures and quotes throughout.
February 12, 2015
I'll read anything that is based on Winnie the Pooh and all the lovable characters.
Most of the recipes include honey. Ranging from breakfast, teas, picnics, lunch, dinner, dessert, sauces and Christmas cookie recipes.
Most of the recipes include honey. Ranging from breakfast, teas, picnics, lunch, dinner, dessert, sauces and Christmas cookie recipes.
August 30, 2007
I had this book as a child, and still love it! It's full of cute recipes. In fact, my mother used it for my Pooh birthday party when I was six years old!
November 18, 2008
This is such a fun book. The best recipe, in my opinion, is the Honey Mint Banana Bread.
November 12, 2011
Whimsical, and an easy favorite for young cooks. Well detailed instructions, and many Poohish comments. Along with simple drawings that will bring out the Pooh lover in you.
June 11, 2014
I absolutely love this book and plan to make many of the recipes in it. Brings me back to my childhood.
January 8, 2026
Book - no longer have
January 5, 2026
✨️💫🌟5 STARS🌟 💫 ✨️
Absolutely darling. Reading the simple, innocent, childlike quotes makes me want to cry bittersweet tears. For joy, because pure childhood does still exist, for sorrow, because that childhood is ripped away from so many of our modern children at the hands of our Godless society.
The recipes are delightful- I have already made the Honey Gingerbread Cookies (substituting gluten free flour and maple sugar because I eat gluten and refined sugar-free) and utterly loved them.
I love the whimsical style of it, introduced by a lovely preface which makes the whole cookbook come alive.
I highly recommend this book for children to cook from with their mothers, and for adults who wish to return for just a moment to that sweet, magical place called childhood.
Absolutely darling. Reading the simple, innocent, childlike quotes makes me want to cry bittersweet tears. For joy, because pure childhood does still exist, for sorrow, because that childhood is ripped away from so many of our modern children at the hands of our Godless society.
The recipes are delightful- I have already made the Honey Gingerbread Cookies (substituting gluten free flour and maple sugar because I eat gluten and refined sugar-free) and utterly loved them.
I love the whimsical style of it, introduced by a lovely preface which makes the whole cookbook come alive.
I highly recommend this book for children to cook from with their mothers, and for adults who wish to return for just a moment to that sweet, magical place called childhood.
June 2, 2014
Okay, so this has very luckily been retitled "The Winnie-the-Pooh Cook Book." Because a Pooh Cook Book could carry different connotations as to main ingredient, I assume.
And the real main ingredient here is honey. Honey in scones, honey in cakes, honey in pancakes, honey in bread, eggnog, candy, fudge, snow, you name it, there is usually honey. Roughly 75% of the recipes use it, so if you dislike honey avoid this one. That said, honey chocolate pie as well as hot chocolate with honey sound so remarkably delicious that I'm going to have to copy some of these out.
There is also, of course, a recipe for Cottleston Pie. It's odd, because most of the ones I've seen online have it as a bacon and egg pie, while this is chicken, cream and cheese (no honey). It sounds very good though. The illustrations are right from Milne and are, as always, the dictionary definition of charming, only these are in color. On the whole, it's a very pretty cook book and a great way to get through a lot of honey.
And the real main ingredient here is honey. Honey in scones, honey in cakes, honey in pancakes, honey in bread, eggnog, candy, fudge, snow, you name it, there is usually honey. Roughly 75% of the recipes use it, so if you dislike honey avoid this one. That said, honey chocolate pie as well as hot chocolate with honey sound so remarkably delicious that I'm going to have to copy some of these out.
There is also, of course, a recipe for Cottleston Pie. It's odd, because most of the ones I've seen online have it as a bacon and egg pie, while this is chicken, cream and cheese (no honey). It sounds very good though. The illustrations are right from Milne and are, as always, the dictionary definition of charming, only these are in color. On the whole, it's a very pretty cook book and a great way to get through a lot of honey.
July 5, 2015
If you're vegan, than this is not the cookbook for you. If you love honey, you'll try every recipe in this book. If you're a Winnie the Pooh fan, than you'll enjoy all the quotes that accompanied each of the recipes in this book. This is such an adorably cute book and perfect to have children help you make some of these recipes. The recipes are organized as followed: Breakfast, Smackerels/Elevenses & Teas, Provisions for Picnics & Expositions, Lunches & Suppers, Desserts & Party Recipes, Winter Delights, and Honey Sauces.
April 23, 2017
I have a passion for cookery books published as companions to classic literature so this was quickly snapped up when found peeking at me from the local used book store. This is worth it for the illustrations & Pooh quotes alone but many of the recipes are quite nice although not all of them are really very practical or useful. My children have made & enjoyed many of the recipes. (Obviously, honey is a component of many, though not all, of the recipes.)
May 10, 2012
I love Winnie the Pooh and I love cookbooks, so this cookbook was a must-have for my collection. I love the line drawings of Pooh & friends and the quotes that adorn each recipe. The recipes are easy so that children can either help in the kitchen or make the food themselves. AND of course, most of the recipes contain honey... Pooh wouldn't have it any other way! :-)
April 17, 2020
Rasanya ingin mencoba setiap resep yang ada di dalam buku ini. Termasuk makanan favorit pooh yang bahan dasarnya sudah pasti madu. Di dalam buku terdapat quotes-quotes menarik yang bisa mengingatkan akan buku-buku koleksi Winnie The Pooh juga ilustrasi di dalamnya. Panduan resepnya menurut saya juga mudah untuk diikuti.
June 14, 2015
i've gotten this book as a gift when i was a kid and i absolutely loved it ! never cooked anything from it because i wasn't that great a cook :p
But reading it again now, it's a great book with easy recipe's you can make with kids etc.
But reading it again now, it's a great book with easy recipe's you can make with kids etc.
June 19, 2017
Cute baking book made perfect for little ones. The illustrations are quaint and iconic quotes from The Winnie the Pooh stories are found scattered within.
Lovely recipe book for children and adults alike.
Lovely recipe book for children and adults alike.
March 7, 2022
I've really been loving literary cookbooks lately. I just love the tie in of the recipes to the quotes from the books. I don't think I would make anything from this one, but it was fun to look at just the same.
November 6, 2010
Cute! Some fun recipes that I hope to try. So many things to make with honey!
October 20, 2011
Not much I'd want to eat, but I imagine that if I had just read The House at Pooh Corner, some of the delicacies would sound good! Reminded me of my sister's love of Piglet Popovers as a kid.
May 1, 2015
nice cookbook attachment to the whinny-the-pooh series
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January 6, 2014Very cute, lovely hooks to Pooh and his friends, written for adult cooks.
June 2, 2014
A charming addition to any home.
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July 26, 2014Not having a recipe for Kanga and Baby Roux is a serious omission.
August 14, 2014
A good first cookbook for kids.
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June 15, 2017Such a cute idea for a cookbook and a wonderful trip to the Hundred Acres Wood.
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