Baker's Companion

A truly beautiful baking book, chock full of recipes and the accumulated know-how of Allyson Gofton. This is a book to be kept and treasured. There are more than 100 recipes for cakes, biscuits, pies, tarts, slices, and brownies, quick bakes, puddings, pavlovas and meringues, bread and yeast baking, with how-tos and hits and tips throughout. Want to know why your cakes are always too heavy? Why the bottom burns? Can you just melt the butter to save time when creaming it with sugar? when it all goes wrong, what can you do? What can you bake for a friend who can't eat gluten? Find the answers to all this and more in this book.