Containing 250 recipes, the author takes the reader step-by-step through the complexities of bread, pastry, cake and pudding making. Drawing from the world's kitchens there are recipes for all occasions: Australian Lammingtons, American muffins, Spanish doughnuts, French brioche and Wiltshire lardy cake. Whether cooking for a family tea, an elegant dinner of the village cake stall, this book will provide a recipe. Thane Prince writes for The Telegraph and is the author of Quick Cook.