Baking is one of lifes great pleasures & in this beautiful new National Trust cookery book Sybil Kapoor brings together an inspiring collection of baking recipes both sweet & savoury. She delves into our kitchen gardens larders hedgerows & orchards to illustrate different aspects of modern British baking. She shows how key ingredients such as produce from the orchard grain from the mill or butter from the dairy have shaped British baking & led to a delicious & deservedly famous repertoire of cakes pastries savoury bakes & bread. Seville Orange Crunch Cake & Blackcurrant Meringue Pie are just a few of the simple cakes & tarts that can be prepared with fresh dairy ingredients while pastry & breads from the mill provide a wholesome basis for Nectarine Slice & Olive & Onion scones. Harvest sumptuous apricots cherries pears & plums from the orchard for Apricot Creams & Chocolate pear cake or use the natural abundance of wild herbs mushrooms & nuts of the hedgerow to produce delicious almond blackberry cake or soft hazelnut macaroons. Sybils interests in nature & the use of seasonal & local produce reflect the National Trusts current food policy & combine to make this a unique & exciting baking book for our times.