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Ladies, A Plate: Traditional Home Baking

Johnston, Alexa

There was a time when the family cake tins were always full of biscuits, slices, fruit loaves and cakes baked by mothers, aunts and grandmothers. And when home-made sponges, ginger loaves, lamingtons and custard squares were an integral part of all special occasions; birthdays, christenings, weddings or wakes. In Ladies, A Plate, Johnston looks back and shares her favourite traditional New Zealand recipes. An avid collector of community cookbooks, she also writes about the history of some New Zealand baking classics, showing how recipes evolved over time. Over 90 recipes, illustrated with colour photographs.

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Winner of the 2009 Montana New Zealand Book Awards, Lifestyle and Contemporary category.

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