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The Great British Book of Baking: 120 best-loved recipes from teatime treats to pies and pasties

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Inspired by The Great British Bake Off? Learn how to bake over 120 delicious recipes in this ultimate baking book and official tie-in to the first BBC series.

Take a tour of the very best in baking our nation has to offer - from Eccles cakes to Cornish pasties, Chelsea buns to Scottish gingerbread.

Over 120 classic recipes, as well as numerous adaptations and suggestions, cover the whole range of baking skills from sweet jam tarts to savoury game pie. These are recipes that have been passed through the generations, as well as those from the Bake Off contestants.

With trips to notable landmarks from baking history - Melton Mowbray and Sandwich among the more famous, as well as locally loved secrets from towns and villages around the country - the book highlights the importance of baking as part of our national heritage.

Whether you want to try your hand at the delicate art of shortbread petticoat tails or dish up a hearty steak pie to a hungry family, you will be dipping into the pages of The Great British Book of Baking time and time again, for the very best baking recipes from around the British Isles.

Chapters include:
- Biscuits and Teatime Treats
- Bread
- Tarts and Flans
- Pies
- Cakes
- Puddings
- Fancy Pastries
- PLUS invaluable tips from the judges and an introduction from Mel and Sue!

Get your wooden spoons at the ready!

About the Author

Linda Collister trained at the Cordon Bleu, then La Varenne in Paris. She has written over twenty-five books, nearly all on the subject of baking. Sheila Keating is a food writer who has worked on a wide range of books. She has a special interest in the provenance of British food and has written the narrative introductions for The Great British Book of Baking.

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4.9 out of 5

98.33% of customers are satisfied

5.0 out of 5 stars Such a lovely book!

t. · 24 May 2014

This is such a lovely book with tons and tons of great sweet and savoury recipes.The chapters are:1. - A Word from Mel and Sue2. - Tips from the Judges3. - Introduction4. - Biscuits and Teatime Treats5. - Bread6. - Tarts and Flans7. - Pies8. - Cakes9. - Puddings10. - Fancy PastriesEach chapter has a three-pages long introduction informing about the history of said baked good, e.g. bread, from ancient times untill today. I really enjoyed reading these introductions. They are very interesting and filled with little stories, quotations from Shakespeare and so on. But if you are not interested in these things you can easily move on without missing any information when actually baking.So let's move on to the recipes: there is - as said before - a great variety of recipes so everyone should find something to their taste: from jumbles to scones to Irish farmhouse soda breads to bagles to all kinds of sweet and savoury tarts, flans, pies, and puddings to lovely cakes. The recipes are very thorough so that even inexperienced bakers should have no problems: it's for example always said what to do with the goods when they come off the oven (leave in the tin or remove from the tin), when there is an option for making the dough by hand and one for making it with an electric gadget, both options are explained and so on. Furthermore - and I found this very helpful - there a pages dedicated to specific ingredients (like yeast), methods (like blind baking) and so on. I've been battleing with yeast for my whole baking life and I finally managed to master it thanks to the tips giving in this book. And if you're an experienced baker and know all there is, these information don't disturb you as they are on specific pages and you can easily ignore them.Another aspect I really enjoy is the beautiful phtography and layout. Every recipe has its own photo and its own double page (or more). Inbetween there are some 'picture pages' just showing pictures of the beautiful British countryside, tea rooms, bakers and so on. So if you're not baking, this book can easily sit on your coffee table ready to just look at.I love this book and I would buy it again and again. If you're interested in baking and/or Britain you sould buy it too!

5.0 out of 5 stars Some really useful recipes

S. · 18 December 2021

I know people say this a lot, but this actually IS now my top favourite baking book! I thought…start at the beginning…so I made the stem ginger cookies (recipe in the Look Inside sample…give them a try) and they were extremely delicious and very popular in our household. Hints continue to be dropped that more would be welcome.I then tried the macaroons ….oh my word! they were drop dead GORGEOUS!! And so easy. I gave one to a Yorkshire lad who was doing some work in our garden and he came back to say it was the most delicious macaroon he had ever had…and far better than Betty’s (famous cake shop in Yorkshire). Well, that’s quite an accolade, as Betty’s make scrumptious cakes.So, yes, this is a book you will actually use and come back to many times. Recommended.

4.0 out of 5 stars Good old fashioned recipes.

A.B. · 3 October 2024

Wide range of comfort foods and traditional fayre.

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the very best baking books I have!

P.D.l. · 3 March 2011

Being a Domestic Goddess interested in English cooking, I have owned many cookery and baking books over the years and from time to time many have ended up in a charity shop. A lot of cookery books are dissapointing, suggesting recipes that are impractical with a poor end result.So I got this book out of the library first as I am more cautious these days. It was soon very apparent that this book is REAL gem!! There is nothing in it I would not be prepared to make. The layout is attractive and well thought out, with good sensible instructions with excellent photos of the finished article.I have all Nigella's books (she is my kitchen heroine) and I have many favourites from her books.(Do try Lemon Syrup Loaf, its to die for!) Some of her recipes are very rich so The Great British Book of Baking brings you down to earth in the kitchen with excellent tried and tested well known treats. Its absolutely no use if you are slimming, but hey, you need to have a treat now and again. The recipe for the Bakewell Tart is very good as is the Sticky Marmalade Tea Loaf. Enjoy!From the Derbyshire Domestic Goddess.

5.0 out of 5 stars Best of British

S.W. · 22 December 2023

If you want English classics this is the book, I’ve a few to go through yet but plenty of recipes to choose from

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended book celebrating British cooking heritage.

R. · 5 March 2015

Finally, a book on British baking. I am slowly building a new collection of cookbooks and love the range offered on Bolo as well as the prices. I had bought Delia's cakes and up until now considered that the best book I had found that contain mostly British recipes. But this book is fantastic. I am a bit of a traditionalist in my cooking and not the most adventurous given the choices we have nowadays, and wanted something that celebrated our British cooking heritage - this is it. Some of the dishes I bake regularly already and look forward to trying them with the suggestions in the book. Others I haven't tried and it opens up new dishes at the table, that can all be made with local ingredients. I bought this at the bargain price of £5 too. Grab it while you can!

5.0 out of 5 stars The Great British Book of Baking 120 best loved recipes from teatime.

C.M. · 23 October 2013

My family were recommended this Linda Collister Cookery book (one of the earlier editions accompanying Great British Bake off vs the more recent ones from the show). Delicious tried and tested recipes and easy enough to follow.We got the kindle edition (at a very good price) as we're running out of Hard copy storage space (with all our other cookery books). Its our first Kindle cookery book and taking a bit of getting used to navigating/sizing on ipad! Also need to be careful not get Ipad dirty/damaged in kitchen area with all the ingredients flying around. Had family vote and Yes we would recommend this to others. I think in future though, its easier using a hard copy vs kindle but that's just my opinion/choice.

This book bis simple to follow and every detail is explained

a.l.h. · 12 September 2023

This book is fantastic with so many recipes just what I needed thanks

A classic.

F. · 4 May 2021

Great book, with all the classic recipes.

Cooking book

M.W. · 22 January 2021

Great recipes and ideas

Used book- great condition

t. · 3 March 2019

Arrived from the UK quickly and it was in good condition. Recipes seem clear and concise...they are metric measures so be prepared with a scale that has grams and measuring cups and spoons with metric measures. Also be aware to any American bakers who have not lived elsewhere... Do not assume all ingredients are the same. Examples self -rising flour in the UK is not the same as in the USA. US Self rising flour has salt, the UK one does not. Strong flour is bread flour and caster sugar is bartender's or bakers sugar. Treacle is Molasses, but Golden syrup is NOT corn syrup. Icing sugar is powdered sugar...when in doubt look it up....have fun baking

Great buy

S. · 7 April 2017

Fantastic. It has a lot of great recipes with detailed instructions and a write-up on what the finished product should be like - and pictures. A little bit of history with stories of British baking, not too much, just enough to be fun and interesting. I've made a few of the recipes already and they have turned out wonderfully, I'm looking forward to trying more.

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