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Books > Health, Home & Family > Cookery / food & drink etc > General cookery > Cookery dishes & courses > Cakes, baking, icing & sugarcraft
Now back in stock! A delightfully vintage-feel baking cookbook with
everything a new baker needs, including explanations of essential
ingredients and equipment, basic techniques and recipes, plus key
culinary terms and handy conversions, followed by over 90
easy-to-follow recipes accompanied by mouthwatering photography.
From millionaire's shortbread and delectable cupcakes to savoury
delights such as pasties and quiches, all kinds of baking are
covered.
Marguerite Patten, during a long lifetime in the kitchen until her
death at the age of 99 in 2015, was the doyenne of British cookery.
She began her cookery career as a Home Economist for the Ministry
of Food, hence many, many decades of experience went in to writing
this book and it shows. She shares her wealth of knowledge and her
tried and tested recipes for cakes large and small, biscuits,
breads, pizzas and pastries. Baking was Marguerite's most natural
culinary territory and she starts by explaining the equipment and
the basic techniques, as well as what to do if things go wrong.
From different types of flour, to what utensils you need or can do
without, to the meaning of creaming and how to fold all the
traditional terminology is explained so that you can read and get
started. There are no glossy photographs in this handy little
manual but as her tone is friendly, reassuring, straightforward but
factual you will find all the instructions you need to guide you to
success every time. She covers not only family favourites such as
Walnut cake, teacakes and buns but more modern popular cakes such
as muffins. The book has been planned to introduce the pleasures of
baking in such a way that even a beginner will achieve successful
results under the expert guidance of Britain's still much loved
cookery writer.
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