Author : Natalie Gist
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781492380672
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (86 download)
Book Synopsis A Mummy's Guide to Baking by : Natalie Gist
Download or read book A Mummy's Guide to Baking written by Natalie Gist and published by . This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who was the first person who looked at eggs, flour, butter and sugar and thought "hum...if I mix them up, put them in this thing that won't break when it gets hot, and pop it into this firey thing, then something rather lovely will come out at the end of it..."? What a brilliant idea. I love the idea what you take a selection of ingredients, mix them up into a sloppy mess, bung said mess into a tin, slap it into an oven and then some time later out comes a lovely cake, a cake that bears absolutely no resemblance to the gooey mess that you put into the oven in the first place. Of course, thinking about whoever this person was, then leads me to think of the distinctly less appealing image of wondering who watched an egg come out of a chicken's bottom and think to themselves "hum...might try eating that". Now as far as I was concerned, there were two issues with me tackling baking, which were:1. Little talent in this particular area;2. Little time in any particular area.As one of my friends pointed out to me, a lack of talent does not seem to hold back a number of people from a reasonable amount of success in a number of fields, and therefore I should not necessarily let that put me off. A good point and well made. On the basis that I was not intending to humiliate myself in front of the nation singing or dancing on a TV talent show, I decided that as far as baking was concerned, if I couldn't beat them, I was going to join them. I set about rifling through some magazines and cook books that I had had looking impressively clean on my book shelf for a number of years. The second issue is one that you will all be familiar with, and that is that in spite of being at home a lot more than I used to be, I have had the rather unpleasant surprise of realising that being at home with children is not the same as being at home alone - you don't seem to get to the end of the day feeling like you have accomplished very much, even though you have done quite a lot of different things, you have often done them badly, if indeed you completed them at all. Yet, at the end of that day, you are completely and utterly exhausted. So, in my sleep-deprived haze, it seemed to me that to add complicated baking to this would be (if you'll please excuse the pun) a recipe for a disaster (that is truly terrible and I apologise profusely). I love the idea of high-end and high-brow cooking and baking. I appreciate the need for high-end and high-brow cooking and baking; creatively, artistically and gastronomically. However, as a working mum, I simply cannot subscribe to the view that if you leave something in the oven for thirty seconds over the allotted time, that it will be positively ruined and needs to be thrown away and started again; I have neither the time nor the money for such waste. If I have managed to produce something that is passable, then I am going to serve it, whether the pastry is too thick or not. No doubt to the horror of pastry chefs the world over, I am of the "Poke-it-a-bit, have-a-bit-of-a-look, a-bit-of-a-taste, then-stick-it-in-front-of-people" School of Baking. My diners are subject to my "Eat it or Wear it" Policy, so if they don't want to eat it, then they know what they can do with it.So I got stuck in. And so did my friends. This book is the results.
