TASTY TREATS

Basic recipes and useful kitchen tips fill this children’s cookbook.

With one spread per recipe and additional spreads to introduce kitchen utensils, tips on food storage, and encouragement for picnics and parties, this German import features fresh ingredients for meals, snacks, and beverages children (and their grown-ups) will enjoy repeatedly, with multiple variations suggested for each basic recipe. Recipes include pancakes with fruit, French toast, rainbow salad, easy ice cream (made of frozen fruit), fried rice, campfire bread, and more. Use whatever you have, and take advantage of leftovers, with recipes for veggie quesadillas and pizza with dough from scratch. Scoop out the flesh of a melon to use the shell as your bowl for a juicy fruit salad. Ginger-honey lemonade and berry mocktail recipes look especially tantalizing. The children occasionally featured in the illustrations are racially diverse. The ingredients are clearly illustrated for ease of reference at a glance, and the instructions are printed in a fairly large font with large numbers enumerating the steps and the need for adult help signaled when appropriate. Measurements are given in metric units, with English volume and weights in parentheses. Watercolor illustrations and well-chosen typeface make this an attractive, tastefully designed book for browsing and daydreaming as well as for getting busy in the kitchen.

A lovely gift idea for children just old enough to chop and stir.