Hamlyn All Colour Book of Home Baking [antikvár]

Introduction Despite the popularity of convenience foods the one area that still has its devotees in home cooking is that of baking. Nothing can equal the taste and aroma of a hissing griddle scone, a crisp but mouth-watering meringue or a golden-crusted home-baked loaf. It is for such devotees, and for those who like to dabble occasionally, that this book has been written. Throughout its colourful pages you will find enticing ideas for plain and fancy breads, homely scones and teabreads, simple and elaborate family cakes, festive celebration cakes and special occasion favourites, sweet and savoury recipes for biscuits and cookies, sizzling ideas for pastries and pizzas, promising treats for puddings and desserts and finally some tempting ideas for savoury bakes. You'll fmd many of the great classics and time-honoured favourites here but with a liberal sprinkling of new ideas which I hope will earn the valued place of becoming regular treats. Rarely is a book ever put together by just one person, especially one as complex as home baking. Thanks therefore go to Jackie Goodwin for her hard work in double testing the recipes and to Clair James for her help in typing the manuscript. My thanks also go to James Jackson for his superb photography of the dishes shown. Occasionally there are the gentlest of whispers and hints of a decline in home baking - a rumour to laugh at. The increasing number of shops selling home-baked cakes, the long queues found at heavily laden bread and cake stalls at festivals and fairs throughout the country and the ever increasing presence of recipes in magazines, on the back of food packs and in scrap books in every home, show quite clearly and bear testimony to the fact that nothing, but nothing, beats a home-baked bread, cake, pastry or biscuit. I hope that you will enjoy some of mine. CqitS) ^avev) Carol Bowen