Winner of the Andre Simon Food Book Award 2011
The ultimate baking compendium from Dan Lepard, the country's foremost baking guru.
Dan Lepard’s innovative and earthy approach has made him the baker that every top chef wants in their kitchen, and with this utterly dependable how-to-bake book you’ll be baking cakes, pastries, breads and cookies like never before. Collecting together Dan’s best recipes – and mixing science with old-fashioned kitchen wisdom – Dan has tried and tested almost every baking technique out there.
Guiding you through the crispest flatbreads, blue cheese and oatmeal biscuits, gluten-free white loaves, savoury leek and smoked haddock pies, caramel sweets, frostings, simple scones and pumpkin and ginger cupcakes, Short and Sweet uses the newest flours and ingredients and has everything from updates on the classics to the latest in baking for intolerances.
If baking is therapy then Dan is your life coach. He’ll show you how to improve, what to work on, how to take what is just ok right up to brilliant, without a sweat. No wonder he is the country’s cutting-edge baker.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780007391431
Number of pages: 576
Weight: 1390 g
Dimensions: 246 x 176 x 42 mm
‘Dan is by far the most imaginative and creative baker I know.’ Yotam Ottolenghi ‘Just when I think I’ll never need another cookery book along comes Dan Lepard’s Short & Sweet to tease, delight, beguile and tempt…This man has never, ever let me down’ Nigel Slater ‘One of my cookery heroes, Dan's baking expertise is second to none. His recipes ooze originality, precision and above all, irresistible deliciousness.’ Sarah Randell, Sainsbury's Magazine ‘Dan Lepard is to baking what Lewis Hamilton is to Formula One.’ Jay Rayner, Observer ‘Dan demystifies the baker’s art with such enthusiasm and unapologetic pragmatism that all kinds of seductive treats become instantly achievable.’ Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall ‘Mr Lepard, I love you.’ Nigel Slater
How I wish I had discovered Dan Lepard's book earlier in my life. It not only would have saved me a huge amount of money spent on other recipe and cookery books, which now crowd my kitchen book shelves, but would... More
After 10 years struggling to make a loaf light and airy enough to eat, Dan Lepard has come to the rescue. His simple, but informative, introduction to making bread provides all the information required to trouble... More
What's good about this book is the tips Dan gives to vary the end product. He takes the mystique out of bread making and shows how easy it is. His assertion that all the kneading and knocking back that... More
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