The Pooh Cook Book

"So this book was a really big part of the culinary associations of my childhood, as was my paternal grandmother, who I called Gee-Gee. When I was tiny she used to send me letters with recipes which I now have framed in my kitchen. I have a choux pastry recipe from her because we used to regularly make profiteroles. Well, the funny thing is that back then baking was such an accepted part of everyday life you never thought about things being complicated or not. They were just part of someone’s repertoire, and I think that was a good lesson because I made things that I wasn’t frightened of and then it was only much later when I was a grown-up that I learnt to get frightened of things like choux pastry or souflées, the sort of stuff that people dread making. I was doing it when I was little and then probably got worse at it the older I got!"