Book description
This beautiful hardback is packed with practical advice to help you
improve your baking. It includes fascinating trivia covering the
history of baking and the chemistry crucial to achieving winning
cakes, biscuits, pastry, bread and baked desserts, as well as classic
recipes to demonstrate techniques.
Arranged into a helpful question and answer format and beautifully
illustrated throughout, this is an in-depth guide for bakers of all
levels of skill, an invaluable companion to the Great British Bake Off
recipes books, and the perfect gift for Mothers' Day.
Gerard Baker is an author and broadcaster who specialises in
British food culture and history. He has worked for the seminal BBC
Radio Four Food Programme since 1996 and has been a columnist on a
number of national titles including The Times, BBC Good
Food and the Kitchen Garden.
Gerard has appeared in a number of television series, most regularly
with the Hairy Bikers. He has degrees in both science and history
which give him a unique perspective on our baking heritage. Other
books published by Gerard Baker include Mrs Beeton: How to Cook.
