Author(s): Dean Brettschneider

NZ Cookbooks

Reprinting, no date as at January 2009. New Zealanders have always been champions of baking - whether in large commercial bakeries churning out loaves by the thousands, the small village bakery turning out just enough bread and cakes for the local community, or the keen housewife baking to fill empty tins and empty tummies. There's nothing more satisfying than the aroma of freshly baked bread, or knowing that there is a rich, moist cake waiting to be cut into. The New Zealand Baker is a colourful celebration of New Zealand baking at its very best, with comprehensive reference sections on basic principles, ingredients, techniques, equipment, formulas, and everything the accomplished or aspiring baker needs to produce fabulous artisan breads, cakes and pastries. Easy-to-follow step-by-step directions provide the reader with a complete understanding of how baking works and why recipes are successful. The bakery section presents an array of tantalizing recipes from around 20 of our best bakeries, including Pandoro, City Cake Company, Dixon Street Deli, to name a few. The result is a wonderful and unique collection of new and innovative, as well as more traditional styles of baking, accessible to the sophisticated home baker and the professional baker and chef.