One of The New Yorker's Best Cookbooks of 2020!
A meticulously researched, beautifully written, and richly photographed
cookbook celebrating the recipes, ingenuity, history, and heritage of
British baking.
"Regula Ysewijn blends history and recipes in the most delectable way,
with traditional cakes, buns, ppies, and tarts. A British baking
bible." - Tom Parker Bowles, The Daily Mail
With over 100 iconic recipes, The British Baking Book tells the
wonderfully evocative story of baking in Britain--and how this
internationally cherished tradition has evolved from its rich heritage
to today's immense popularity of The Great British Bake Off.
With lavish imagery and evocative narrative, the expert-baker author
details the landscape, history, ingenuity, and legends--and
show-stopping recipes--that have made British baking a worldwide
phenomenon. From cakes, biscuits, and buns to custards, tarts, and pies,
authentic recipes for Britain's spectacular sweet and savory baked goods
are included here--like pink-frosted Tottenham cake, jam-layered
Victoria sandwich cake, quintessential tea loaf, sweet lamb pie,
Yorksire curd tart, and more. Illustrating the story of how British
baking evolved throughout the country, many of the recipes have a
sense-of-place heritage like Dorset apple cake, Whitby lemon buns,
Cornish cake, Grasmere gingerbread, and Scottish oatcakes. Evocative and
fascinating, this cookbook offers a guided tour of Britain's best
baking.
