The English Garden editor Clare Foggett reviews Grow Your Own Cake by Holly Farrell
We all know that gardens and cake go together. No visit to a beautiful garden would be complete without an equally beautiful slice of something special in the adjoining tearoom, after all. This book takes that perfect marriage a step further, delving into growing your own produce specifically for baking.
The photos are delicious, the recipes straightforward and easy to follow. You can pick your cakes by season – depending on what fruit or vegetables you have to hand – or from the chapters on afternoon tea, puddings and savoury bakes.
The growing advice is sound and enthusiastic, particularly encouraging for those new to growing their own. There’s a helpful section of general advice at the front – for both garden and kitchen – with more detailed advice on individual crops to accompany its related recipe – these are good, but succinct, and a gardener entirely new to growing tomatoes, say, may need to look up additional advice as they grow.
Grow Your Own Cake, By Holly Farrell, Frances Lincoln, £16.99
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