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Crumb: A Baking Book

✍️ Tandoh, Ruby
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🏛 Ten Speed Press 📅 2015 📔 Hardcover ISBN: 9781607748366
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📝 Description: Crumb: A Baking Book

A baking cookbook from The Great British Bakeoff contestant Ruby Tandoh, with a focus on charming, flavorful, and practical dishes that celebrate the joy of casual baking. Enjoy the pleasures that baking has to offer, from the exertion of a long knead to the crackle of a loaf cooling on the countertop. Crumb presents a simple yet exuberant sort of baking, with recipes such as Chamomile Vanilla Cupcakes, Rosemary Pecan Pie, Fennel Seed & Chile Crackers, and Chocolate Lime Mud Cake that excite the palate and bring bliss to everyday baking. A delight to read as well as to cook from, Crumb covers a range of projects from sweet to savory--including cakes, cookies, crackers, bread, pastries, pies, tarts, and more. This is baking stripped back and enjoyed for its own sake, with recipes you'll return to over and over again.

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Tandoh’s Crumb succeeds as an invitation to love the process, not just the product. Its strength lies in demystifying baking with charming, practical projects that span cakes, breads, and crackers. However, it may disappoint purists seeking advanced technique or strict traditionalism; this is casual, flavor-driven baking, not haute pâtisserie. Readers expecting rigid measurements or complex lamination instructions might find the approach too relaxed. The tone is warm and accessible, catering to those who want joy in the kitchen rather than perfection on the plate. It fits well on a shelf alongside modern, lifestyle-oriented cookbooks that emphasize experience over academic rigor.
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Eatbook Family editorial team

Tandoh’s Crumb succeeds as an invitation to love the process, not just the product. Its strength lies in demystifying baking with charming, practical projects that span cakes, breads, and crackers. However, it may disappoint purists seeking advanced technique or strict traditionalism; this is casual, flavor-driven baking, not haute pâtisserie. Readers expecting rigid measurements or complex lamination instructions might find the approach too relaxed. The tone is warm and accessible, catering to those who want joy in the kitchen rather than perfection on the plate. It fits well on a shelf alongside modern, lifestyle-oriented cookbooks that emphasize experience over academic rigor.

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