KNEAD TO KNOW: A HISTORY OF BAKING (HB)

A journey to explore pioneering recipes, happy accidents and some of the most bizarre baked foods ever created - some fit for a monarch's table, others eaten by farm labourers. A baker of historical foods, Neil Buttery presents forgotten dishes and traditional techniques worth trying today (as well as a few that should perhaps be left in the past). Discover the invention of the wedding cake, the creation of the whisk, the purpose of fish heads in a star-gazy pie, and the meat which used to be found in mince pies.