It takes the average reader 2 hours and 40 minutes to read The Perfect Picnic by Hilda Leyel
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Take a warm summer's day, a secluded spot in the dappled shade, a blanket and a bottle of wine, friends and family, and a spread of delicious homemade food, and you have that timeless rustic idyll - the Great British picnic. Perfect picnic food is simple, elegant and delicious, based around much-loved classics. Hilda Leyel, who wrote this book in 1936, was extraordinarily before her time. She influenced generations of foodies with her wonderfully inventive recipes , where retro meets modern, such as: Egg mayonnaise on crusty bread Watercress, beetroot and nasturtium salad Chicken and leek pie Spiced plum cake and salted almonds She championed local, seasonal ingredients like watercress and asparagus; she promoted traditional recipes from raised pies to strawberries and cream; and she set a benchmark of refinement with crab soufflé and spaghetti and truffles.
The Perfect Picnic by Hilda Leyel is 160 pages long, and a total of 40,000 words.
This makes it 54% the length of the average book. It also has 49% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 38 minutes to read The Perfect Picnic aloud.
The Perfect Picnic is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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