Cowra officer cooks up new recipe book
Cowra officer cooks up new recipe book
1 July 2016
Cowra Corps Officer Major Cathryn Williamson hopes her second recipe book will raise more funds for the Salvos Womens Project "I Will Survive". Photos: Bec Bennett
Cowra Corps Officer, Major Cathryn Williamson is used to cooking up a storm but she didn't expect that her first recipe book would be such a success. Last year she sold more than 4000 copies of her recipe book 2 Thumbs Up: A dozen dozen sensational slices, unexpectedly raising more than $15,000 for the Salvos Women project, “I Will Survive”.
Catherine says her initial goal was to sell 100 copies of the recipe book, yet even before the book was published mid-last year, she had to plan a second print run to keep up with the orders flooding in.
Majors Cathryn and Mark Williamson share a gift of hospitality and regularly minister over a cup of team and feshly baked cakes and slice.
Major Williamson’s success has led her to publish a second recipe book - this time featuring biscuits. After spending more than 10 months working on her new book, Major Williamson officially launched 2 Thumbs Up: A dozen dozen brilliant biscuits at the Army’s Refresh event for women in Orange last month.
Like her first book, Major Williamson has included many simple recipes. “Most of them [the recipes] are basic. I want them to be so that anybody can make it, not too involved. So people don’t say, ‘Oh that’s just way to hard. I’m not even going to try that’.”
Bakers will find common biscuit recipes, including Anzac biscuits, choc chip and jam drops. There are some more creative recipes included in her new book such as honey jumbles and Major Williamson’s new favourite, chewy fruit and nut.
Many of the recipes come from Major Williamson’s mother, while some are Major Williamson’s own creation and others come from her baker friends.
Major Williamson said while the biscuit book was more challenging to produce than the slice book, she is proud of her new product, having already received positive feedback.
“Lots of people have commented on how well laid out it is and how simple the recipes are to read. I’ve had ladies tell me that their husbands looked at the book and put post-it-notes on which ones they want them to make.”
Major Cathryn Williamson's new biscuit book.
Funds raised through Major Williamson’s biscuit book will go towards the Salvos Women project “I Will Survive”. This time the funds will support victims of human trafficking at The Salvation Army’s Safe House and sponsor four young girls from Papua New Guinea to attend the Salvos Discipleship School on the NSW Central Coast.
2 Thumbs Up: A dozen dozen brilliant biscuits can be purchased for $10 (plus postage) by emailing Major Williamson at two.thumbs.up@hotmail.com
Comments
This comment is not relating to your second book, but your first. A colleague gifted me your 2 THUMBS UP a dozen dozen sensational slices book recently. Can I say, and I have been baking for 40 odd years, that your book is just brilliant. I am a cook who tires of recipes quickly and found myself constantly googling for new slice recipes. However, and with pictures to boot, I have the most perfect book I could have ever imagined. Baking two slices every other weekend, I am set for a very long time. Well done, you. I love my new slice recipe book. Kind regards, Gayle.
How do we buy book
@Amanda Cook: You can contact the author, Cathryn Williamson, by emailing her at two.thumbs.up@hotmail.com
@Amanda Cook: You can contact the author, Cathryn Williamson, by emailing her at two.thumbs.up@hotmail.com
@Amanda Cook: You can contact the author, Cathryn Williamson, by emailing her at two.thumbs.up@hotmail.com
@Amanda Cook: You can contact the author, Cathryn Williamson, by emailing her at two.thumbs.up@hotmail.com