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This is a complex, detailed work without peer. If you want to bake using a natural leaven, if you ever feel in your mind that you want to give over a chunk of your life to baking remarkable loaves with care and dedication, then The Bread Builders should be your first book to start that [...]
This book aims to show that breadmaking can be an option for even the time-poorest of home cooks. As with the majority of more detailed books, ‘Artisan Bread…’ .’ opens with Ingredients, Equipment, Tips and Techniques and the authors’ ‘Master Recipe’. With photographs relegated to colour inserts, the onus is on the text to guide [...]
Deceptively presented like a little hard-cover novel, this book is beautifully illustrated with Gavin Kingcome’s rustic photography. The book is prose-heavy and goes into a lot of detail – amateurs may want to give this one a miss, but serious breadheads will be chuffed with such a large amount of information in such a small [...]
I’m not quite sure that I get the idea of a cookbook aimed at girls rather than children in general, but presumably the publishers had thought about this when choosing a title which excluded all those budding Jamies and Gordons in favours of the Delias and Nigellas. However, having gone down this path, Dorling Kindersly [...]
This little adventure started when Dan’s cousin Maura and her lovely Mum, Auntie Sheila, gave us a large and fully ripened marrow (Cucurbita pepo) when we visited at Christmas 2009. Most marrows seen on sale in the UK are bright green and look like supersized courgettes, but if you let the marrow reach a good [...]
They’re doing it again. Warning of the imminent death of marmalade eating and the traditional British way of life as we tweet our way to extinction
Our very small back garden was relatively neglected for the first nine years we lived here… there always seemed to be something more pressing to spend the money on, like new floorboards, or kitchen cupboards, but late in 2008 we finally agreed on what we wanted and got the builders in. We then had the [...]
The thing that has surprised me most with this year’s first steps in growing vegetables has been just how many beans you get from a few plants tucked in amongst the flowers. First to crop were the dwarf beans, then the runner beans kicked in (and have been amazingly productive, even climbing over the fence [...]
Having got the garden produce under control for the moment, I still had a hankering to make more things for the store cupboard. On a quick trip to my local supermarket, I found large unripe mangoes on sale at a bargain price, so picked up a box full. I left them near the kitchen window [...]
First published in 1940, this is a thoroughly lovely little reprint, tapping firmly into the increasing trend for foraging. Without photographs, quaint illustrations alone help to evoke a sense of ‘simpler times’ and show how bounteous the countryside can be. A great stand-alone read, ‘They Can’t Ration These’ truly comes into its own when [...]
