This is my first book review, I have done so out of frustration and anger I feel for third rate publishers, who obtain sales by using an appetising photographs of home produced foods, who then fills the pages with instructions and procedures which are unintelligible or undecipherable.
A keen home cook and having been employed in the Baking Industry for over 50 years, this is the most disappointing book I have ever read, and purchased.
There is no author, it appears to be a lose collection of recopies copied from numerous women’s magazines, there is no proper “ Legend ” in the book, and frequently flits between Imperial and S I units, which are not clearly defined.
It reminded me of mothers old cookery book from my childhood, recipes ripped from old women’s magazines and the Daily Mirror and pasted in a Woolworths six-penny scrapbook.
Any aspiring cook would be better off scouring the bookshelves of the numerous charity shops or purchasing directly any of the leading women’s magazines.
I laugh at the numerous amount of books sold on Bread-making and basic bakery products purely by the picture on the cover or a so called “ Experts “.
I learnt my trade, where we drew water from the well outside, and baked in a coal fired oven and products had that real special memorable flavour.
How could one make or sell a traditional Oxford Lardy Cake in to-days modern world?