Baking is one of life's pleasures and in this beautiful new National Trust cookery book Sybil Kapoor brings together an inspiring collection of baking recipes. She delves into our kitchen gardens, larders, hedgerows and orchards to illustrate different aspects of modern British baking. She shows how key ingredients such as grain from the mill or butter from the dairy have shaped British baking and led to a delicious and deservedly famous repertoire of cakes, pastries, savoury bakes and bread.

Seville orange crunch cake and blackcurrant meringue pie are just a few of the simple cakes and tarts that can be prepared with fresh dairy ingredients, while pastry, biscuits and breads from the mill provide a wholesome basis for nectarine slice and olive and onion scones. Harvest sumptuous apricots, cherries, apples, pears and plums from the orchard for apricot creams, apple and blueberry muffins and pear pie, or use the natural abundance of wild herbs, mushrooms, fruits and nuts of the hedgerow to produce delicious almond blackberry cake or gooey chocolate walnut brownies. Sybil's interests in nature and the use of seasonal and local produce reflect the National Trust's food ethos, combine to make this a unique and exciting baking book for our times.