Simply Baking

Baking is one of life's great pleasures and in this beautiful new National Trustcookery book Sybil Kapoor brings together an inspiring collection of bakingrecipes, both sweet and savoury. She delves into our kitchen gardens, larders,hedgerows and orchards to illustrate different aspects of modern British baking.She shows how key ingredients such as produce from the orchard, grain fromthe mill or butter from the dairy have shaped British baking and led to adelicious and deservedly famous repertoire of cakes, pastries, savoury bakesand bread.Seville Orange Crunch Cake and Blackcurrant Meringue Pie are just a few of thesimple cakes and tarts that can be prepared with fresh dairy ingredients, whilepastry and breads from the mill provide a wholesome basis for Nectarine Sliceand Olive and Onion scones.Harvest sumptuous apricots, cherries, pears and plums from the orchard forApricot Creams and Chocolate pear cake, or use the natural abundance of wildherbs, mushrooms and nuts of the hedgerow to produce delicious almondblackberry cake or soft hazelnut macaroons.Sybil's interests in nature and the use of seasonal and local produce reflect theNational Trust's current food policy and combine to make this a unique andexciting baking book for our times.