Book description
Winner of the Andre Simon Food Book Award 2011
The ultimate baking compendium from Dan Lepard, the country's foremost
baking guru.
Dan Lepard's innovative and earthy approach has made him the baker that
every top chef wants in their kitchen, and with this utterly dependable
how-to-bake book you'll be baking cakes, pastries, breads and cookies
like never before. Collecting together Dan's best recipes - and mixing
science with old-fashioned kitchen wisdom - Dan has tried and tested
almost every baking technique out there.
Guiding you through the crispest flatbreads, blue cheese and oatmeal
biscuits, gluten-free white loaves, savoury leek and smoked haddock
pies, caramel sweets, frostings, simple scones and pumpkin and ginger
cupcakes, 'Short and Sweet' uses the newest flours and ingredients and
has everything from updates on the classics to the latest in baking for intolerances.
If baking is therapy then Dan is your life coach. He'll show you how to
improve, what to work on, how to take what is just ok right up to
brilliant, without a sweat. No wonder he is the country's cutting-edge
baker. 'Dan is by far the most imaginative and creative baker I know.'
Yotam Ottolenghi
'One of my cookery heroes, Dan's baking expertise is second to none.
His recipes ooze originality, precision and above all, irresistible
deliciousness.' Sarah Randall, Sainsbury's Magazine
'Dan Lepard is to baking what Lewis Hamilton is to Formula One.' Jay
Rayner, The Observer
'Mr Lepard, I love you.' Nigel Slater
'Dan Lepard's no-nonsense baking.' Leanne Shapton, The New York Times
'Dan demystifies the baker's art with such enthusiasm and unapologetic
pragmatism that all kinds of seductive treats become instantly
achievable.' Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Dan Lepard is a baker and
photographer who has worked with the likes of Ottolenghi, Giorgio
Locatelli and Fergus Henderson. He is the author of 'The Handmade Loaf'
and has a very popular baking column in the Saturday Guardian. He writes
frequently for Sainsbury's Magazine and is also currently designing a
range of baking products for Sainsbury's. Originally from Australia, he
now lives in London.
