The Great British Book of Baking: 120 Best-Loved Recipes From Teatime Treats to Pies and Pasties

Arrived from the UK quickly and it was in good condition. Recipes seem clear and concise...they are metric measures so be prepared with a scale that has grams and measuring cups and spoons with metric measures. Also be aware to any American bakers who have not lived elsewhere... Do not assume all ingredients are the same. Examples self -rising flour in the UK is not the same as in the USA. US Self rising flour has salt, the UK one does not. Strong flour is bread flour and caster sugar is bartender's or bakers sugar. Treacle is Molasses, but Golden syrup is NOT corn syrup. Icing sugar is powdered sugar...when in doubt look it up....have fun baking

This is an eclectic book of recipes from what I think is the first season of The Great British Baking Show. Although it has a number of traditional British recipes that would be well known to Americans, it is not a comprehensive baking book. It is enjoyable to read and well illustrated.

I enjoy watching the British Baking Show on TV and decided to order a couple of the books. Being used, this thick book was a great value. The print is a little smaller than I expected, and of course, the measurements are metric, but I can cope with that and am glad I enjoy reading the history of the recipes and am glad I purchased it.

Book is fantasticWell put togetherI have already marked many of the recipes I want to make .... which one first though ?

Gave the book to my daughter and her husband and they were very excited and happy with the gift! They've been watching the TV show and can't wait to try some of the recipes!

A wonderful book of British favorites, which my husband seriously misses here in the states. Soft scones, English muffins, Hot Cross Buns along with savory faves like Meat Pies and much more. While I can't bring myself to baking him a Herring Pie with crust... It is fun to experiment a bit.

Good reference book. I really want the British baking bible but, that is nearly $200 dollars and this one is a great value. Shipping was good and book was in great condition!

Great book! Lots of good recipes and a little information about each item - where it originated, history, etc. The only thing that could improve this book would be a conversion table for the ingredients. It's all metric. Other than that it's wonderful!

Four recipes have unreadable lists of ingredients. The two columns are on top of each other making the words overwritten.Other than that, love the pictures and the historical references of some of the recipes. Directions are clear and detailed.I am looking forward to trying out the recipes. There are some recipes that I've heard about before but couldn't find. Now I have them.Very enjoyable read.

This is such a lovely book with tons and tons of great sweet and savoury recipes.The chapters are:1. - A Word from Mel and Sue2. - Tips from the Judges3. - Introduction4. - Biscuits and Teatime Treats5. - Bread6. - Tarts and Flans7. - Pies8. - Cakes9. - Puddings10. - Fancy PastriesEach chapter has a three-pages long introduction informing about the history of said baked good, e.g. bread, from ancient times untill today. I really enjoyed reading these introductions. They are very interesting and filled with little stories, quotations from Shakespeare and so on. But if you are not interested in these things you can easily move on without missing any information when actually baking.So let's move on to the recipes: there is - as said before - a great variety of recipes so everyone should find something to their taste: from jumbles to scones to Irish farmhouse soda breads to bagles to all kinds of sweet and savoury tarts, flans, pies, and puddings to lovely cakes. The recipes are very thorough so that even inexperienced bakers should have no problems: it's for example always said what to do with the goods when they come off the oven (leave in the tin or remove from the tin), when there is an option for making the dough by hand and one for making it with an electric gadget, both options are explained and so on. Furthermore - and I found this very helpful - there a pages dedicated to specific ingredients (like yeast), methods (like blind baking) and so on. I've been battleing with yeast for my whole baking life and I finally managed to master it thanks to the tips giving in this book. And if you're an experienced baker and know all there is, these information don't disturb you as they are on specific pages and you can easily ignore them.Another aspect I really enjoy is the beautiful phtography and layout. Every recipe has its own photo and its own double page (or more). Inbetween there are some 'picture pages' just showing pictures of the beautiful British countryside, tea rooms, bakers and so on. So if you're not baking, this book can easily sit on your coffee table ready to just look at.I love this book and I would buy it again and again. If you're interested in baking and/or Britain you sould buy it too!

Ein großartiges Kompendium britischer Backrezepte - ein wahres Paradies. Ich bin in einen regelrechten Backrausch verfallen, nachdem ich es durchgesehen hatte.Es ist in englischer Sprache, Hardcover mit Schutzumschlag, sehr groß und schwer und auf einer Seite befindet sich das Rezept, gegenüber das Bild, wie das Backwerk auszusehen hat, wenn es fertig ist, so dass man immer weiß, ob man es richtig gemacht hat.Vor manchen Rezepten stehen ein paar Zeilen, in denen eine kleine Empfehlung ausgesprochen wird, wozu man es genießt, wo es herkommt usw. Manche Rezepte sind alte Familienschätze, die die (Freizeit-)BäckerInnen mit uns teilen.Ich habe mir vorgenommen, 2x im Monat ein Rezept aus diesem Buch zu backen. Quintessentially British! Und allerhöchst empfehlenswert.

I know people say this a lot, but this actually IS now my top favourite baking book! I thought…start at the beginning…so I made the stem ginger cookies (recipe in the Look Inside sample…give them a try) and they were extremely delicious and very popular in our household. Hints continue to be dropped that more would be welcome.I then tried the macaroons ….oh my word! they were drop dead GORGEOUS!! And so easy. I gave one to a Yorkshire lad who was doing some work in our garden and he came back to say it was the most delicious macaroon he had ever had…and far better than Betty’s (famous cake shop in Yorkshire). Well, that’s quite an accolade, as Betty’s make scrumptious cakes.So, yes, this is a book you will actually use and come back to many times. Recommended.

Fantastic. It has a lot of great recipes with detailed instructions and a write-up on what the finished product should be like - and pictures. A little bit of history with stories of British baking, not too much, just enough to be fun and interesting. I've made a few of the recipes already and they have turned out wonderfully, I'm looking forward to trying more.