I love these little recipe booklets with their illustrations not of food but of countryside views, mostly details of paintings and sketches by accomplished artists. This one has a Mill theme, with windmills and watermills showing how it was done long before the dreaded windfarms arrived. But of course the recipes are excellent too - thirty-four of them, including Abernethy Biscuits, Ayrshire Shortbread, Blackburn Cracknells, Bosworth Jumbles, Buttermere Biscuits, Cornish Ginger Fairings, Devon Clotted Cream Biscuits, Dorset Fair Gingerbreads, Essex Shortcakes, Lancashire Nuts, Shrewsbury Biscuits, Stanhope Firelighters, Suffolk Rusks, Wakes Cakes and Wareham Bears. The nice thing about biscuit-making is that you can bake a dozen or more within half an hour, using relatively few ingredients, and be guaranteed a delicious result which everyone seems to enjoy, judging by the speed at which they disappear. Because the booklets in these series are so neat and small they fit easily onto any kitchen shelf, making them very easy to use at short notice. The weights and measures are avoirdupois, but there is a metric conversion table inside the back cover.