Baking

Sweet and savoury baking foundations, covering pastries, custards, meringues and the techniques that underpin them.

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Cremes Pastry creams, crème pâtissière and crème anglaise, the silky bases of countless desserts. 10 recipes

Meringue French, Italian and Swiss meringues for piping, baking and folding into desserts. 3 recipes

Pastry Shortcrust, puff, choux and laminated doughs, the building blocks for tarts, pies and patisserie. 11 recipes

Recipes

Banana Bread

Wet ingredients (mashed banana, eggs, melted butter, sugar, vanilla) mix in one bowl. Dry (flour, baking powder, soda, cinnamon, salt) join in. Walnuts fold through. Pours into a loaf tin; bakes for 55 minutes. Cools (with patience) on a wire rack before slicing.

1 hour 10 minutes Serves1