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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In this audiobook, you will learn everything you need to know to make the best pizza from how to get your pizza dough right to how to make the perfect sauce and, lastly, the best cheese to use and how much. Even if you’ve never successfully made any pizza that you can be proud of, this audiobook will put an end to your failed pizza-making attempts. And not just that - it will give you enough pizza recipes to spoil you with options!

You do not need to be a professional baker to produce good quality and heartwarming bread. In fact, bread is one of the easiest foods to make, especially because of the simple ingredients involved. Baking bread can be fun, enjoyable, and you will definitely be able to savor the results with your loved ones and friends. Learn about the basics of bread baking and how you can make your own bread at home.

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.

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.

Do you want to start making your homemade bread? Then look no further because you have come to the right place, where you will learn the step-by-step guide on how to start making your own bread. I've been making bread for many years, and I want to share my knowledge through this guide. This book serves as a bread-making guide for beginners. It includes every piece of information that a beginner must know from ingredient selection to preparing your first loaf. Salient features include:

You will not find any unnecessary information in this book. Collected here are the proven recipes of cooks from around the world. These are 40 recipes of the most delicious baked dishes that are simple to prepare. Each of these recipes has garnered the utmost praise from both experienced chefs and ordinary housewives.

Imagine two scoops of laugh-out-loud comedy mixed with one scoop of delicious sexiness and drizzled with thoughtfulness in a coffee table book choc-chip full of beautiful, glossy color photography. Few people are good at expressing themselves and their secret sexual fantasies, but nobody has trouble talking about ice cream! Just like good sex, the book has a wonderful attention to detail, with a section at the end about having the safe sex conversation which you probably wouldn't be expecting from a book that claims to know your sexual desires based on what ice cream you like.

CBD, THC, hemp, marijuana, cannabis. Did you know that you can reap the immense health benefits of cannabis in an easy to make edible form? In my book, Sweet Cannabutter Desserts – How to Use Weed Butter, Cannabis Oil, and Tinctures in Sweet Treats, I will teach all about the wonderful world of weed edibles through the ease of cannabis butter (aka cannabutter).

From no-frills butter cake to galaxy buns, Ruby will provide careful and clear instructions that explain what each step should look, feel and smell like. And if you're worried about keeping up, don't! In the pauses between steps, those moments where your fingers are enmeshed in dough or batter, she'll talk you through the emotive quality of food and its place in our lives.

This charming book recounts the remarkable journey of the bagel from the tables of 17th-century Poland to the freezers of middle America today. The story is one of surprising connections between an unassuming ring-shaped roll and centuries of Polish, Jewish, and American history.

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.

How did white bread, once an icon of American progress, become "white trash"? In this lively history of bakers, dietary crusaders, and social reformers, Aaron Bobrow-Strain shows us that what we think about the humble, puffy loaf says a lot about who we are and what we want our society to look like. White Bread teaches us that when Americans debate what one should eat, they are also wrestling with larger questions of race, class, immigration, and gender.

Homemade bread? Yes! It is easier than you think. This audiobook includes 30 bread recipes that will serve as your introduction to the basics of crafting bread. From traditional loaves, to family favorites, to artisan delights, this audiobook will make you fall in love with the art of baking bread. Considering that at it’s core bread is made from only four ingredients, it can be made in a hundred different combinations, all equally unique and delicious.

Bread making is one of the time honored traditions in western culture and has a rich history. There are many styles of bread making that involve certain basic ingredients of flour, yeast, water, milk, oil and eggs. Bread making typically involves the baking of these ingredients after yeast rises and adds to the overall volume of the dough.

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.