Böcker av Darina Allen

A modern manual - get ready for a masterclass in bread making from Ballymaloe.

A guide to traditional cookery skills with over 700 recipes. It includes chapters such as 'Dairy', 'Fish', 'Bread' and 'Preserving'. It explains processes such as smoking mackerel, curing bacon and making yogurt and butter. It also includes ideas for using forgotten cut of meat, baking bread and cakes and even eating food from the wild.

An accessible and streamlined cookery primer for anyone wanting to master basic cooking skills using 25 of the most popular staple ingredients, written by the grande dame of Irish food.

Classic and contemporary one-dish recipes - from roasting tray dinners to casserole stews - taking in pots, pans and even the odd tagine

Explains 1175 recipes, 370 variations and more than 100 basic skills, from making pastry to the art of carving, from preserving lemons to making delicious home-made pasta, from culturing creamy yogurt to butterflying a leg of lamb.