Paul Hollywood's Delicious Pies and Puddings

Mim 52: Plenty of good recipes, some unique

United States on Jul 05, 2023

popeye: The recipes were easy to follow

Australia on Jul 03, 2023

Craig C.: Paul Hollywood's recipes are just marvelous. A very enjoyable book!

United States on May 27, 2023

Colleen Simmons: My personal use

United States on May 02, 2023

M. MCILROY: Easy and Informative

United Kingdom on Apr 19, 2023

Derek Morley: Wife is very happy with this, lots of great recipes in it.

Canada on Jan 09, 2023

Elizabeth B: Bought this book after watching the series being repeated on TV. It's a really nice book with very good and easy to follow recipes of the dishes in the series, and super photos. There are instructions for all types of pastry with step by step photos. A great book, highly recommended.

United Kingdom on Jan 28, 2022

HYPNOJADEHYPNOJADE: Be reminded everything is measured in grams rather then cups and conversions do not mean accuracy. I bought a gram weight Scale. Allalso different flours then are used in america. I use gluten free flours, so get a different pastry outcome, however the fillings can be used. I specifically wanted the hot water pastry and fillings. I was still happy with my game pies but wow....super rich using both butter and lard in the pastry. I bought masterclass game pie molds. They came out impressive. I made too thick even tho it didnt seem like it but it totally held up taking out of mold!
I didn't know puds were puddings and not too interested In those.
It is fun baking differently then american way. GREAT photos on each step. Worth having. And i love Mr. Hollywood. 😁

United States on Nov 15, 2019

Michael Grant: It just arrived yesterday, so I can only speak on looks as I haven't tried any of the recipes.

Looks great - I can't wait to dig into some of these recipes.

I caught a couple of episodes, on youtube, of the series that is companion to this book and they put the hook in me to buy this.

So far, I've baked quite a few of Paul's recipes from his "How to Bake" and the GBBO tie in book "Great British Bake Off: Everyday" and have been very happy with the results. I expect the recipes in this book to be no different. The extra tips and diagrams are always appreciated.

I see many reviews mention that its not user friendly with regards to the weights/measurements. It is really quite simple. If you want to make European recipes, you simply must buy a scale. Odds are your liquid measuring cup has metric already and your measuring spoons are fine. Don't do a conversion of guessing how many cups of flour equal 175 grams. If you are serious about baking, be exact. Write down (in the book if you like) a simple C to F degree chart for the standard cooking temps and you are set.

I now cringe when recipes have volume measurements for dry ingredients. So nice to...

United States on Mar 29, 2017

chunky cheese: I bought this book for two reasons.
1. I love Pies and puds and I am glad for the revival in British Homebaking.
2. I got fed up writing out the recipes from the series and wanted to klnow step by step how kneading dough reasons etc to create a hit everytime.

I didn't expect his guests recipes to be included but I didn't expect some recipes to be left out either so not everything is in here. ALso the times stated for cooking are not the same as his TV cooking times - I haven't to date experimented yet to know which to use or believe. Also I found that his methodologies between his books differ as well. What is good is his explanations about why things happen and methods of kneading, mixing etc a little from what you get from the TV series. I am usin this book to get better reasons why like everyone else a failure happens from a Master Baker - but what I find hard is that he has not looked after the detail as Dehlia Smith does, to ensure consistency in
1. The ingredient measurements,
2. Methodology
3. Cooking times.... for this reason I am disappointed - its a downside it seems from many what are clearly good Bakers/cooks.... get a TV series you have to write...

United Kingdom on Feb 11, 2014