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What makes a truly perfect recipe for spaghetti and meatballs? Is there an ultimate devil’s food cake? What makes a recipe worthy of your forever files? In Smitten Kitchen Keepers: A Kitchen Counter Conversation, listeners get the chance to sit across the counter from Deb Perelman and hear her thoughts on these questions and more, as she chats about 44 fail-safe, satisfying recipes you’ll rely on for years to come.

This is the story of Kitty Tait who was a chatty, bouncy and full-of-life 14-year-old until she was overwhelmed by a cloud of depression and anxiety and she withdrew from the world. Her family tried everything to help her but she slipped further away. One day her dad Alex, a teacher, baked a loaf of bread with her and that small moment changed everything. One loaf quickly escalated into an obsession and Kitty started to find her way out of the terrible place she was in. After a few months, she and her dad opened the Orange Bakery, where queues now regularly snake down the street.

From breakfasts, picnic lunches and dinners, to coronations and state banquets, Cooking and the Crown showcases an abundance of beloved royal recipes for all seasons and occasions. Sophisticated creations feature alongside dishes of surprising simplicity, combining historical insights with modern tastes.

The Hebridean Baker has a global following and with nearly 10 million views of his recipe and lifestyle videos on TikTok. His unique style and wholesome and delicious traditional Scottish bakes have won him fans around the globe and now, in The Hebridean Baker, Coinneach shares both his fabulous recipes and fascinating stories of island life, offering a true taste of Scotland's wild and windswept Outer Hebrides.

Sourdough bread fueled the labor that built the Egyptian pyramids. The Roman Empire distributed free sourdough loaves to its citizens to maintain political stability. More recently, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, sourdough bread baking became a global phenomenon as people contended with being confined to their homes and sought distractions from their fear, uncertainty, and grief. In Sourdough Culture, environmental science professor Eric Pallant shows how throughout history, sourdough bread baking has always been about survival.

In Breaking Bread, third generation baker, food writer and presenter David Wright examines the universal questions about bread and baking. About the people who make and shape the bread we buy and the difficulties that social and cultural change, food fads and health directives have had, and are having, on the baking industry. After his family bakery sadly closed its doors after seventy-five years, Wright asks if the the closure of the bakery underlines the very idea that bread is a dying foodstuff. Is bread good or bad? And what does the future hold for bread?

Bread features a host of recipes for all levels of bread-makers, including simple one-flour recipes like soda bread and no-yeast loaves that can be mixed, kneaded and baked in no time at all. First, Daniel examines the key ingredients in baking (flour, yeast, salt and water), explains the science behind the seemingly alchemic processes, and advises on the right kit to get started. He then demonstrates how to make yeast and non-yeast breads, as well as enriched doughs and home-started sourdough.

If you've always been intrigued by the idea of baking beautiful, post-worthy loaves of bread from your own sourdough starter but have found the process confusing or intimidating, this is your easy entry into producing incredible loaves at home. Chad Robertson and Jennifer Latham have taught legions of professional bakers to bake bread with a deeply flavorful crust and a custardy crumb. Now they've simplified those lessons to talk you through their process.

The at-home equivalent of attending a bread-baking workshop, this audio guide brings the professional into your kitchen to share with you all the secrets you need to create truly delicious loaves of your own. Whether you're a bread beginner or dough dabbler looking to hone your skills, this audiobook is packed with information that will help you understand bread-baking and how to take it to the next level.

You will not find any unnecessary information in this audiobook! Collected here are the proven recipes of cooks from around the world. These are 115 recipes of the most delicious baking that are simple to prepare, starting with the usual wedding cake and ending with an exquisite kiwi cream dessert. Each of these recipes has garnered the utmost praise from both experienced chefs and ordinary housewives. So, if you decide to pamper yourself, your family, or your guests with delicious, unique cakes, cookies, and other desserts, this audiobook will become a reliable resource!

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Bread Machine Cookbook and learn about baking kneaded breads, enriched breads, and recipes for perfect homemade bread.

Cakes are present at all of life’s defining moments. We commemorate the day of our birth, our weddings, our most significant festivals through the medium of cake. It is a source of comfort and joy, a reminder of all that is good.  Across Britain, particular cakes represent the heritage and resources of the communities that created them.  The book will cover twelve cakes that intersect with our lives at important moments and the individuals who have shaped the history of cake in our land; slices of our lives and slices of British life.

How do you cheer up a woman who has spent hours cleaning prison toilets with a broken mop? The secret is in a tres leches cake. In Iran’s prisons, women endure horrors: they are beaten, interrogated, and humiliated in a thousand ways. Even a whisper to a fellow inmate can be punished. Yet—in spite of anything and everything—they resist: they bake. They console each other, cry together, dance together. The Evin Prison Bakers’ Club is a call to stand up for Woman, Life, Freedom by a woman still fighting for a free Iran.

Want to make sourdough but don’t have the time or don’t know how or where to start? Sourdough—Cut to the Taste! shows you how and walks you through making the all-important starter from scratch.

This audiobook is designed to guide you in opening a thriving bakery, and contains the essential steps and important tips necessary to find yourself on the path to success. With your talent and my business acumen, together we’ll ensure that you will have the best chance at making a mark in the culinary world. In the chapters to come, I’ll help you channel the fiery passion displayed in your baking into other entrepreneurial necessities.

So, you have made the big decision to take control of your health and join the whole-food plant-based diet movement. Congratulations! You have just made one of the best decisions of your life! This plant-based-diet beginners guide should help you get started. Discover the stress-free way to start a plant-based diet with easy, everyday comfort recipes.

These are bread recipes like our grandmothers made, but now it's so much easier with the help of a bread-making machine. Simply add lots of delicious ingredients in the machine, set the timer, and away it goes. As the aroma fills your home, a rush of memories will fill your mind and tempt your tongue. These recipes are easy to follow and will not have you tiptoeing across the kitchen floor for fear of having the bread fall or crossing your fingers for a scrumptious result...these recipes deliver in ease and flavor.

Learn how to bake artisan bread like a baker. Understand the fundamentals of baking different types of breads. Then get to work with over 100 delicious bread recipes. Do you want to bake great artisan bread for your family and friends or take your hobby to the next level and win that baking competition? Learn the fundamentals of baking different types of bread and the tips and tricks to making perfect artisan breads.

When you know a culinary ratio, it’s not like knowing a single recipe, it’s instantly knowing a thousand. Cooking with ratios will unchain you from recipes and set you free. With thirty-three ratios and suggestions for enticing variations, Ratio is the truth of cooking: basic preparations that teach us how the fundamental ingredients of the kitchen—water, flour, butter and oils, milk and cream, and eggs—work. Change the ratio and bread dough becomes pasta dough, cakes become muffins become popovers become crepes.

Making our own bread provides us with an unhurried, creative activity that is joyful, calming and productive - providing a much-needed antidote to life's stresses and strains. From kneading dough, to taking a delicious-smelling freshly baked loaf out of a hot oven, bread-making can be a mindful experience and a therapeutic craft that can nurture and nourish us. As yeast transforms flour and water, so making bread can transform us and our lives.