Bake - Rachel Allen

I love to cook and so when my godmother selected this book for me last birthday I bet she was counting on the fact that this would be a winner! No doubt filled with nostalgic thoughts of us baking banana and walnut bread together when I was a youngster I can almost picture her delight when she found it in the book shop..........however the one thing my godmother could not have counted on was my dislike for poor Rachael. The thing is the women has never done anything to me I just find her annoying, in fact I find her patronising, I know judging by some of the reviews on her books that people love her wholesome and family approach to cooking but there is just a niggling ...  Read the complete review

My brother recently bought this book after watching the TV series. I can't quite make out if this was a good idea or not. OK so maybe it's alright because he wants to be a baker, but then there's the problem of other people using it and wanting to make absoloutly anything! The 288 page long book is full of nice little photos, showing you what the cake, pie or maybe just a biscuit is supposed to look like. However on some occassions you just have a picture of Rachel Allen putting a cake in the oven. Or maybe just a photo of some pans. Now correct me if I'm wrong but I assummed that this was a cooking book. I'm not saying that other cooks don't do it in ...  Read the complete review

Rachel Allen's Bake is my favourite baking book that I currently own. My other half bought it for me as a Christmas present, I carefully opened the wrapping paper on christmas morning and peeked at 'Rachel Allen - Bake' down the side and I was just so delighted with it I could not wait to starting baking - Rachel style! The only thing is was really gutted about was that I could not start cooking from it on Christmas day. The illustrations in this book draw you in so deep, I could not even put it down I read it from front to back. So Christmas day over with Boxing day was my day to bake and this is the first book I opened, I could not hold back the excitment ...  Read the complete review

I love to cook, especially bake, and having caught this TV series now and again, and finding that Rachel Allen always seems to make amazing, family friendly food, I ordered 'Bake' by Rachel Allen when I found it on special on Amazon at £8.00, better than half price! Bargain! It is a hardback book, no sleeve, a quality matt finish. The pages are thick and again matt and easy to turn. There is a long baby blue ribbon that is to be used as a page marker. A lovely looking book with a picture of almost each recipe on the adjacent page, perfect in my opinion The Contents is split into 9 categories, Sweet ...  Read the complete review

Cooking is something that I do for fun, especially baking so for my birthday my parents bought me Bake by Rachel Allen. I had never heard of her before (I don't get many chances to watch television) but my parents who live in Ireland (where Rachel Allen's from) had heard of her and felt that she made the sort of foods that I would adore. They were completely right! Bake is full of all sorts of scrumptious sounding and tasty (from the recipes that I've tried so far) recipes. Rachel has included a wide range of options both savoury and sweet. The instructions are given clearly with all the basic recipes for pastry, bread, cakes, meringue, decorations and ...  Read the complete review