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Learn to bake with this beginner's book from Britain's favourite women's fiction author. In an extremely honest account, Marian describes how baking helped her through her depression. By putting her energies into baking and writing down her recipes she discovered that little by little the depression lifted along with her sponges and souffles. These recipes are aimed firmly at beginners, and hints and tips and advice flow easily from this entertaining and never patronising writer. Full colour integrated photography.
Synopsis
A complete novice in the kitchen, Marian decided to bake a cake for a friend and that was it - she realized that baking was what she needed to do in order to get her through each day. And so she baked, and she wrote her recipes down, and little by little the depression started to lift, along with her sponges...
