Pastry

Pastry made easy: a step-by-step guide to making pastry with over 50 mouthwatering recipes, from baking expert and internationally bestselling author of Dough and Crust, Richard Bertinet

Richard's   cookery school in Bath is one of the places to learn baking, but if you can't get there, this book   is the next best thing to sharpen up your pastry skills.

Delicious...   Proving that everyone can cook pastry.

A no-nonsense   collection of pastry recipes from a career baker, enhanced by terrific   step-by-step photography. Bertinet has an amazing ability to get complex   ideas across, clearly and simply.

beautifully   illustrated and deliberately user-friendly Pastry guide cookbook makes baking   easy.

Let Richard Bertinet   guide you to Pastry heaven with his lovely new cookbook Pastry.

This book   is perfect for inspiration and knowledge building and, best of all, really   encourages the reader to make one of its delicacies.

Stunning... Dreamy...   Beautiful and instructive, this is the book to tempt you to reach for the   flour and butter and gorge yourself silly.

Originally trained as a baker in Brittany, Richard has over 20 years experience in the kitchen, baking, consulting and teaching. In 2005 he set up The Bertinet Kitchen cookery school in Bath, which now attracts people from all over the world to participate in his classes. His first book, Dough, was awarded The Guild of Food Writers Award for Best First Book, the Julia Child Award for the Best First Book and the James Beard Award for Best Book Baking and Desserts. Crust was given a World Gourmand Award for the Best British Book on Baking. Richard has appeared on Saturday Kitchen, Market Kitchen and often on features for local television. His most recent appearance was with Rachel Allen on her Bake! series.

Bestselling author Richard Bertinet uses simple techniques and step-by-step photography to teach you how to make four different types of pastry before you put your skills to the test with a mouthwatering collection of over 50 recipes. He also dismisses the myths of making pastry and gives you his top tips on how to avoid mistakes or how to put them right if you do slip up. 
 
With recipes ranging from savouries, such as Duck Pie, Pumpkin and Ricotta Tarts and Sausage Rolls, to all the sweet treats you can imagine, such as delectable Prune and Rum Tarts, Passion Fruit Cheesecakes and a sumptuous Tarte Tatin, this is every cook's pastry bible. 
 
Beautifully illustrated with line drawings and colour photography by the award-winning photographer Jean Cazals, this is an essential cookbook for every budding baker.

Richard Bertinet

The step-by-step guide to simple sweet pastries for the home baker

Patisserie, the art of the maître pâtissier, is the most admired style of baking in the world and requires the highest level of skill. In this new book master baker and bestselling author Richard Bertinet makes patisserie accessible to home bakers. 
 
Richard effortlessly guides you through challenging techniques with step-by-step photography and over 50 easy-to-follow recipes for the most revered and celebrated biscuits, sponges, meringues, tarts, eclairs and other classic desserts. With Richard’s expert help, you will soon be creating authentic sweet tarts, bavarois, galettes, macarons and mousses. 
 
With creations including lavender and orange eclairs, gateau Saint Honore, tarte tropizienne, Paris brest and cassis kir royal mousse, Patisserie Maison opens up the world of divine sweet creations to novices as well as more experienced cooks.

Patisserie Maison

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