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Mary's Household Tips and Tricks

Mary's Household Tips and Tricks

Your Guide to Happiness in the Home

Summary

Get organised in 2022 with Mary Berry's essential household tips that will make home your true happy place

'Practical AND beautiful' Graham Norton, BBC Radio 2
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'This book is a collection of skills I've learned for running a home. Gleaned from years of practical experience, along with all the hints that friends and family have imparted to me, I hope it will be a helping hand' Mary Berry

Join national treasure Mary Berry in her comprehensive, beautifully illustrated guide that shares her greatest tips on how to care for your home.

Inside you'll find . . .

- KITCHEN KNOW-HOW: Love the heart of your home with freezer tips and how to organise your food
- CLEANING & CONFIGURING YOUR HOME: Create cleaning products from store cupboard items
- LAUNDRY & WARDROBE WISDOM: Banish moths from your home for good, remove stains from every kind of fabric
- GARDENING & FLOWERS: Bring greenery into your home even without a garden, create beautiful flower arrangements

Easy to use, practical and gorgeously illustrated, Mary's Household Tips & Tricks covers everything from Mary's golden rules for baking to her favourite flowers for each season, from how to polish silver to whether tea should be poured before or after milk.

With secrets for accomplishing the most challenging home-keeping tasks with ease, Mary's wonderfully simple book will help turn any house into a home.

'The Queen of British baking has whipped up a recipe for home happiness' Independent

'A domestic goddess' Daily Telegraph

Reviews

  • Britain's best-loved cook and national treasure Mary Berry lets readers in on her household secrets . . . A comprehensive, beautifully illustrated guide that shares her greatest tips on how to care for your home.

    'This book is a collection of skills I've learned for running a home. Gleaned from years of practical experience, along with all the hints that friends and family have imparted to me, I hope it will be a helping hand' - Mary Berry
    From the publisher's description

About the author

Mary Berry

Dame Mary Berry is the nation's favourite baker and author of over 70 books, including the bestselling Mary Berry Cooks, Mary Berry's Absolute Favourites, Mary Berry At Home and Mary Berry's Baking Bible. She was the much-loved judge on the BBC's The Great British Bake Off and has been teaching the nation to cook for over four decades.

Cordon Bleu trained in Paris, Mary began her career as a magazine cookery editor before publishing her first cookery book in 1966. Mary is also an AGA expert and taught AGA masterclasses for many years from her home with Lucy Young.

In 2009 Mary was awarded the highly coveted Guild of Food Writers Lifetime Achievement Award and in 2012 she was made a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.
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