The Thrifty Baker

Name: The Thrifty Baker
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SKU: 9780711287488
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Shop, Bake & Eat on a Budget

By Hermine Dossou

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The Thrifty Baker by Hermine Dossou offers an innovative approach to baking, featuring budget-friendly recipes that maintain flavour and creativity. The book guides readers through resourceful techniques to make the most of everyday ingredients, ensuring that delicious baking doesn't have to come with a high price tag. With practical advice and an array of recipes, it’s perfect for both novice and experienced bakers looking to be economical in the kitchen.
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This book may appeal to you if you love baking and want to create delicious treats without breaking the bank. Packed with budget-friendly recipes, it offers creative ways to use often-overlooked ingredients, making it a perfect fit for both novice and experienced bakers looking to get more from their pantry.

The Thrifty Baker

Learn how to shop, cook, bake and eat on a tight budget. Make savings on ingredients and cooking equipment, to bake clever and thrifty recipes that are as energy efficient as possible and still taste delicious.

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The Thrifty Baker presents 65 delicious, affordable, and impressive recipes along with advice, tips, and hacks covering many areas of baking. Filled with clever ideas and useful features, the book is written with realism and empathy that comes from the heart, from a lived experience. It isn't just a book of great recipes, but an essential manual for anyone baking today.

Although Hermine is enjoying her current success, life hasn't always been easy for her. As a single mother to her son Steven, she has at times struggled to make ends meet, especially when he was young and she could only work part-time. With a limited income, but determined that they should both eat good, nutritious food, she learned how to shop, cook, bake, and eat on a tight budget. This included making savings on ingredients and cooking equipment, devising clever, thrifty recipes, planning weekly menus, and running her oven as efficiently as possible to save on energy bills.

In the process, Hermine has developed a wide-ranging ethos for baking on a budget—a set of values, habits, and skills that have at their heart a belief that we can all eat flavourful, nutritious food without spending a fortune on ingredients and energy. And crucially, also the knowledge that making our own bakes—whether that's bread, pies, quiches, desserts, cakes, or snacks—can save us considerable sums when times are tough.

Hermine would now like to share everything she's learned about baking on a budget.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780711287488

Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 07 September 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: White Lion Publishing

Illustration: 80+ colour photos

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 184.0mm

Height: 245.0mm

Weight: 750g

Pages: 176

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Baking & Cakes Cook Books Cook Books & Recipes Cooking & Food Hermine Dossou Non-Fiction

About the Author

HERMINE DOSSOU was a semi-finalist in the 2020 series of The Great British Bake Off, Hermine is one of the most talented bakers to have appeared on the show, creating delicious and visually stunning bakes that wowed judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith. In addition to earning a 'Hollywood Handshake' (for inventing a new bread flavour combination), Hermine was twice crowned Star Baker. Her laid-back charm and infectious laugh won her numerous fans amongst Bake Off's 10 million-plus viewers, and for many she was 'the people's winner'. Born and raised in Benin, West Africa, Hermine always helped her mum to bake for family occasions, and at the age of eight she decided to try baking something for herself, buying the ingredients for a savarin cake. From that moment she was hooked. She moved to the UK in 2001 to pursue her further education and now works as an accountant. She's a single mum to her son Steven. The French influence in Benin has given Hermine a passion for pâtisserie such as intricate mille-feuille, entremets and éclairs. Creative and experimental, she is fascinated by the 'why' of baking as well as the 'how'. Understanding why ingredients and flavours work together helped her through some of the most difficult challenges ever seen on Bake Off. Since her appearance on Bake Off, Hermine has been steadily building her profile. She has worked with brands including Amazon Fresh, Galaxy, Monsoon, Rowse, ProCook and Panasonic, written recipes for Waitrose Weekend and made four appearances on ITV's The Lorraine Show. She has proved a great hit at cookery events, including demos for the Foodies Festivals in Oxford and Cambridge.