BOOK REVIEW: Baking by Martha Day
When the smell of freshly baked breads, pies and cookies
wafts out from the oven, it conjures up images of a motherly kind. Warmth,
kindness and homeliness are the tags associated with baking. Do you want to be
surrounded by the feelings and smells intertwined with baking. Then this
cookbook is the one for you with over more than 400 step-by-step recipes with
more than 1800 photographs.
Baking covers delicious cakes and family tea time classics
that will tempt you to revive the art of traditional home baking. Bread making
can be a tricky task when you can’t get the hang of it but this book makes it
all the more easier to make that perfect crusty loaf as it has a chapter on
bread making – with recipes for everyday breads as well as artisan loaves.
A comprehensive techniques section covers all the
ingredients, equipment and skills you will need, including how to line tins,
bake blind, make a lattice top for a pie, or make the base for a cheesecake.
As soon as this book was in front of me, the kitchen became
a whirlwind of cake batter and cookie dough. Recipes are immensely easy and all
you need is all the love and passion to flow through your products and voila!
You have the most delicious baked goods in front of you. A definite pick-me-up
for all cooks out there.
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