The British Baking Book
The History of British Baking, Savory and Sweet
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3.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
“Packed with joyful food writing, each recipe complemented by its history and stunning photography.” —Appetite Magazine
With over one hundred iconic recipes, The British Baking Book tells the wonderfully evocative story of baking in Britain—and how this internationally cherished tradition has evolved from its rich heritage to today’s immense popularity of The Great British Bake Off. With lavish imagery and evocative narrative, the expert-baker author details the landscape, history, ingenuity, and legends—and show-stopping recipes—that have made British baking a worldwide phenomenon.
From cakes, biscuits, and buns to custards, tarts, and pies, authentic recipes for Britain’s spectacular sweet and savory baked goods are included here—like pink-frosted Tottenham cake, jam-layered Victoria sandwich cake, quintessential tea loaf, sweet lamb pie, Yorkshire curd tart, and more. Illustrating the story of how British baking evolved throughout the country, many of the recipes have a sense-of-place heritage like Dorset apple cake, Whitby lemon buns, Cornish cake, Grasmere gingerbread, and Scottish oatcakes. Evocative and fascinating, this cookbook offers a guided tour of Britain’s best baking.
“From the iconic Chelsea bun to the substantial Staffordshire oatcake, the bakes she highlights in the book epitomize comfort and reassurance.” —National Post
Customer Reviews
Great content but terrible format
The content of this book is fantastic! Great tasty recipes and love the history of the baked goods! Unfortunately the formatting isn’t suitable for Apple Books. You cannot effectively highlight and take notes in the book, which something that I want to do. For instance I want to notate to switch out milk with heavy cream but when selecting where to highlight and note instead selects the whole page. Additionally this isn’t formatted like other cooking books where the text adapts to apple, instead it’s like someone took a photo of the book and that is what you see on the iPad. And forget trying to use Apple Pencil! I would give this 5 star if I could more effectively annotate the book.