THE
UNOFFICIAL
HARRY
POTTER
COOKBOOK
From Cauldron Cakes to Knickerbocker Glory More Than
150 Magical Recipes for Wizards and Non-Wizards Alike
DINAH BUCHOLZ
This book is unofficial and unauthorized. It is not authorized, approved, licensed, or
endorsed by J. K. Rowling, her publishers, or Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
Copyright 2010 by Dinah Bucholz
Foreword copyright 2010 by George Beahm
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ISBN 10: 1-4405-0325-7
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bucholz, Dinah.
The unofficial Harry Potter cookbook / Dinah
Bucholz.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-1-4405-0325-2
1. Cookery, English. 2. Potter, Harry (Fictitious character) 3. Rowling, J. K. Characters Harry Potter. 4. Potter, Harry I. Title. II. Title: Harry Potter cookbook.
TX717.B87 2010
641.5942 dc22
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This book is unofficial and unauthorized. It is not authorized, approved, licensed, or endorsed by J. K. Rowling, her publishers, or Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
The following recipes were created for this book by Chef Chris Koch. Chef Chris, a classically French trained chef, is the culinary director of a Philadelphia cooking school, kitchen director for a number of TV shows, and author of Learning the Basics: A Home Cook's Guide to the Kitchen. You can visit his website at www.chef-chris.com.
English Fried Eggs and a Gammon of Bacon
Tender Roast Loin of Pork with Variations
French Onion Soup
Melton Mowbray Pork Pies
English Farmhouse Scrambled Eggs and Bacon
Breaded Pork Chops
Queen Victoria's Soup
Chicken and Ham Pie
Bouillabaisse
Stewed Tripe and Onions
Also thanks to Abe Polatsek for contributing the recipe for The Roast Beef of Old England.
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For Heshy
Acknowledgments
First I thank God, who is the source of all blessing. Second, I thank my husband, Heshy, who insisted I put him next to God in my acknowledgments, for more reasons than this book has space for.
George Beahm, author of Fact, Fiction, and Folklore in Harry Potter's World and Muggles and Magic, generously gave of his time to advise me on how to sell my book to an agent.
Mary Sue Seymour is probably the fastest, most efficient, and most professional agent out there. I am fortunate and blessed that she offered to represent this book.
Thanks to my editor at Adams Media, Andrea Norville, who saw the potential for this book and whose enthusiasm turned it from an idea into a reality.
Thanks to Kate Petrella for her thorough copyediting of the manuscript.
Thanks to Chef Chris Koch for his contribution to this book. Chef Chris developed those recipes that I could not due to my kosher diet.
Thanks to Chevi Schainbaum, Cheryl Albert, Yaffa Yermish, Ayala Tarshish, Israel Tarshish, Abe Polatsek, Naomi Polatsek, Batsheva Polatsek, Atara Eiss, and Goldy Joseph. And my friends, neighbors, and the engineers at L-3 for taste-testing (they were more than happy to oblige). So many people offered help and advice that it's inevitable I should leave someone out. If you are that someone, please forgive me.
I thank my mother, Esther (Amsel) Polatsek, who taught me how to cook, and my father, Alex Polatsek, who taught me that in a moral dilemma, the harder choice is often the right choice.
Thanks to my parents-in-law, Frimmy and Meyer Bucholz, for their love and support.
Finally, but no less dearly, thanks to my kids, Elisheva, Sarah, Eliyahu, and Toby, for their honest opinions on the food.
Foreword: A Feast of Food and Words
Harry Potter's first taste of Hogwarts, as it were, is an eye-opener. While the Dursleys did not completely neglect to feed Harry, they never allowed him to eat as much as he wanted. So at his first Hogwarts feast, for the first time in his short life, he is allowed to eat as much as he likes (see Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Chapter 7).
Each school year at Hogwarts begins with a celebratory meal in its cavernous Great Hall. No doubt those magnificent meals left an indelible impression on a young Harry, who hungered for more when living with his Muggle relatives: a feeling of kinship and of family that he clearly lacked; a desire to know his clouded past, which had been carefully and deliberately hidden from him at all costs by his duplicitous uncle and aunt, the detestable Dursleys; and most of all, a desire to realize who he truly is, living in two diametrically opposed worlds, the unimaginative Muggle world and the enchanting world of wizards, his true home.
Though we Muggles will never get to taste life in the wizarding world, we must console ourselves with sampling the food Rowling writes about so lovingly.
In her seven novels, food breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks plays an important part, an essential ingredient that helps complete our picture of life at Hogwarts. That's especially true for American readers who are largely more familiar with Big Macs and fries at McDonald's than with traditional British cuisine: Black Pudding, Crumpets, Spotted Dick, Kippers, Steak and Kidney Pie, trifles, and other dishes.
Fortunately, we Americans do share a commonality with some of the foods mentioned in Rowling's novels and this delightful cookbook. First on that list is ice cream, which of course is universally loved and needs no explanation to Americans. (We each consume 23.3 quarts annually, according to www.makeicecream.com.)
Candy, too, is a universal favorite, though wizards get to enjoy confections not available to Muggles: Jelly Slugs, Fizzing Whizbees, and Fudge Flies, to name a few (see Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 10).
Rowling's mouth-watering dishes, desserts, and candies are left to our imaginations, hungry for more information about their appearance and taste. The Muggle-created versions, to be sold at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Universal Orlando Resort, are the closest we'll get to actually enjoying them. But for those of us not lucky enough to travel to Florida, what's left to savor?
Traditional British cuisine, which is the subject of this marvelous book by Dinah Bucholz, who serves up an enticing selection of recipes for Muggles who hunger for a taste of England.
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