A cookery reference book for all levels of cooks. It explores how to: equip a kitchen; prepare meat and fish; make perfect pastry and bread; and understand what makes recipes work. There are answers to cookery questions from how to make mashed potato to making a sugar-spun cage.
Produced by the acclaimed Leiths School of Food and Wine, Leiths Baking Bible is authoritative, thorough, and comprehensive, covering every aspect of baking from bread, patisserie, and pastry to cakes, scones, buns, and biscuits. You will find all the classic recipes here€”Profiteroles, Quiche Lorraine, Swiss Roll, and Brioche€”and innumerable tempting alternatives€”Artichoke and Green Olive Tart, Walnut Bread, and Almond Shortbread. As with all the cookbooks in the Leiths series, there is an emphasis on technique, especially invaluable for a book on this subject. Useful, inspiring, and utterly reliable, this is the only book you'll need for home baking.