Famous UK Bakers
Britain has a long and distinguished line of bakers, and an equally distinguishes list of famous cakes and biscuits, including apple cheesecake, gingerbread, carrot cake, sponge cake and rich fruit cake. Famous UK bakers have their beginning in the Victorian era with the most famous of them all, Mrs Beeton.
Isabella Beeton was the first to become a household name by authoring a cookery book. It helped she was married to the publisher of a women’s magazine and kept the cost down of her famous Guide to Household Management which, of course, included recipes galore,
Although you won’t find any of them at triflesbakers.co.uk, a good number of her recipes are still household favourites in the UK. The first ‘personality chef’ was Marguerite Patten, whose early TV cookery show just after WWII was a simple introduction to basic cooking skills. She wrote many cookbooks and was hugely popular.
The list of famous UK bakers continued with the inimitable Fanny Craddock who, with her husband Johnny, entertained the new TV generation of cooks with her rich gateaux, butter biscuits and chocolate delights. Although she became a figure of fun for her extravagant outfits, her cooking skills were top-notch and encouraged million of home-based cooks.
Elizabeth David’s book, Italian Food, is the classic for this classic cuisine and gives invaluable hints on the great tradition of Italian cakes such as truffles and almond cakes. For Christmas cakes, Victoria sponges and carrot cake, Delia Smith is world famous, and Nigella, again on TV, reintroduced millions of women to the joys of home baking. Maybe she even influenced the delicious cakes at triflesbakers.co.uk.
