A Little Dutch Cookbook

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Summary: a pocket wonder let down by a lousy editor or printer
Review: This book is a little gem. After years of looking for a simple source of recipes for yer basic Dutch (including Dutch-Indonesian) recipes - speculaas, hasjee and so on - finding it was a real 'Eureka' moment. Even Ditte Kummer's no-nonsense illustrations made plain it was the real thing (very Dutch!). It was only as I first tried to follow its speculaas recipe - with ingredients all over the worktop - that I discovered some sloppy copy-editing or printing had obviously omitted ingredients from some of the recipes. A bit of lateral thinking helped rescue the situation, but it's a plain shame that such a little beauty of a book should be damaged in this way. Still *very* well worth a look, and the only thing of its type I know in English, but...we-e-e-l...someobody somewhere fell asleep at the wheel, and I don't think it was the author!