Your best friend in the kitchen, Rachel Allen, is back with a collection of delicious and easy cakes and bakes, tarts and pies, quiches and casseroles. What could be better than the smell of fresh baked bread or the joy of eating warm cookies straight from the oven? Do you pine for the pleasures of gingerbread houses and holiday delights or the warming goodness of home baked casseroles? Rachel shares ideas from both the sweet and the savory sides of baking, including quick snacks, wholesome breads and pies, exotic cakes and tarts, or easy baked meals for friends and family. This delicious resource is fully illustrated with beautiful food photography including step-by-step instructions to take the mystery out of traditional baking and pastry making. Rachel also offers troubleshooting techniques for common problems and wheat or gluten-free recipes so nobody is left out of the fun! Rachel’s friendly and expert tuition make this easy-to-use book the best friend to every home baker. Recipes include: cardamom bread; crispy bacon and cheddar bread; paper-thin crispbreads, cheese straws, and pretzels; pork, chorizo and spinach pie; beef pasties with mint, ginger, and peas; baked cheese fondue in a pumpkin; smoked salmon and leek gratin; Seville orange meringue pie; Cornish saffron cake; and lime and yogurt cake with rosewater and pistachios.
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"The book I've taken to most this season is by the Irish Nigella(except prettier, blonde and a better cook),Rachel Allen.Her BAKE is simply and engagingly written: one irresistible thing after another."Melanie McDonagh,Evening Standard
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Rachel Allen is a much-loved Irish TV cook and the presenter of 4 highly acclaimed series including Rachel's Favourite Food and Rachel Allen: Bake!Rachel was brought up in Dublin and moved to Cork to study at the prestigious Ballymaloe Cookery School. Today, she still teaches at the school, writing regular features as well as for national publications.She lives in Cork with her husband Isaac and their two sons.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Charming Irish Desserts,
By Vera Ennis "Vera" (Oakville, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rachel's Baking Secrets (Hardcover)
I am enjoying this cookbook very much. The Irish-style quickbreads are easy and delicious and pies and cupcakes (fairy cakes!)are just as good. Rachel Allen is the delightful author of this cookbook. She comes from, or has married into, the Allens of Ballymaloe, a well-known cooking school in the south of Ireland. The north American user will not need to make the usual adjustments to reading a cookbook from an International source as Ms. Allen has made it effortless, using measurements and layouts that are familiar to us all. Her scone recipes are wonderful and while I have not yet ventured to try her yeast bread, I can't wait to do so. Her instructions are clear and easy and she writes in a comfortable style with humour. She also ventures into the Christmas season with the usual Christmas cake, pudding and mince pies recipes. There is a section at the end of the book on icings and frostings, which I have found very useful, and she even ventures to offer an "American" frosting. For anyone who is pastry-phobic, Ms. Allen offers a clear set of definitions of the different kinds of pastry and sensible instructions on technique for each. I find the photographic illustrations to be helpful and nice to look at and in keeping with the production values of the whole book. My only cavil is one of expectation. There is a section in the book on Baked Meals and I suppose since the book title is simply "Bake" she's within the mandate to include this. However, I find that I'm just not interested - these recipes may be wonderful, I'll just never know. Give me more cakes, tarts, scones and goodies, please!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Straight forward simple receipes,
By Lucy (Ireland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Rachel's Baking Secrets (Hardcover)
Lots of breads, cakes, buns from a variety of traditions. Everything is covered if you want to make croissants from scratch you now have a receipe!
Some savoury food - baked dinners, pies. I thoroughly enjoy what these receipes have produced. Some of dinners took a while to prepare - she doesn't give preparation lengths in it.
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of my kitchen treasures!,
This review is from: Rachel's Baking Secrets (Hardcover)
For the North American, perhaps this cookbook might be a little frustrating with its use of scales and questionable oven temperature conversions (I have scorched some treats) but if you own a scale and keep an eye on your desserts, you will be fine. Not only that, you will have wonderful treats to share with friends and family.
I have made four recipes that I adored, even when I screwed the macaroon tart one royally (my bad). It is true that not all recipes have a photo but there are many cookbooks out there that do not have half the photos this book does contain. The quality of the photos is fantastic and I like seeing Rachel here and there throughout the book in them, like she is there cheering us on. The printing is high quality, each page a different pastel colour and there is even a blue ribbon place holder that utterly charmed me. All the recipes look amazing, many have variations like the banana bread. I was intrigued by "glace cherries" but went with chocolate chips instead. For me, this is a great cookbook and love the look and feel of it as well as the recipes. Truly a treasure in my kitchen.
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