Some lovely recipes. I always try to cook from scratch and there were some new things for me to have ago at. Love the concept but did feel some recipes were a bit long winded.

Natural bakers gives an insight into natural baking . Some of the recipes are gluten free , sugar free and dairy free ..... A great baking book to own in your collection.......

This was a gorgeous cookbook with some amazing recipes. So many amazing recipes and the pictures are beautiful.

An excellent baking book with many new ideas. I loved discovering how to use new types of flours. It is not a book for someone who wants to rely on a standard pantry (you will have to buy new ingredients in many cases) but the discovery is very interesting indeed. Some flours might be difficult to get hold of except in organic shops but the internet will solve that very easily. So a book to explore and enjoy, really worth it !
It has definitely opened new baking paths for me with excellent results in most cases, thank you Henrietta.

I love baking, but needed help using whole-grain flours. This book has wonderful recipes and amazing pictures! I highly recommend it!

Wonderful recipes that are well written! I enjoyed the ideas in this book with the recipes chosen and ingredients listed -- this is a nice idea for a cookbook with great variety -- a little something new too.

I enjoyed this book, it is easy to follow, has a nice layout and lovely, bright images
Definitely a purchase I am going to be making in the future, can't wait to try some of those recipes!!

Thank you Quatro Publishing amd Netgalley for an ARC of this book in return for my honest review.

This is a lovely recipe book with gorgeous photography. I was excited to read in the introduction that the recipes were made from easy to find, affordable ingredients. I found many recipes that I would love to try but unfortunately in the part of the world I currently live in, many of the ingredients are not available or incredibly expensive. I look forward to trying a few of the recipes that I can source ingredients for,

I did find that a number of the recipes had a long list of ingredients as well as multiple steps in the recipe, both of which would put me off trying much of the book. This is a great book for those who can easily access the myriad of flours and grains required, and for competent home cooks that enjoy making recipes with a. Number of steps, for example one boscuit recipes had five seperate components for a batch of biscuits, I would not bother spending so much time on such a recipe.

I have gone through my fair share of recipe books recently. It is not that I immediately set to work on trying to recreate the magic so tastefully depicted within the pages but I still have a partiality for them. They are for those imaginary future instances when I would dazzle those even more imaginary visitors with delicacies. This particular book though puts something more attainable within my reach.

This is a book with baking recipes for different meals of the day with varying amounts of complexities and although I am a vegetarian, there are ample options provided for me. Most of the ingredients are basic but the combinations relatively unique. The pictures do need to be mentioned though a lot of painstaking effort seems to go into the photographs of food books of late. The presentation of each recipe with a few tidbits of information made it time spent reading this ARC enjoyable. It is the kind of book I would gift a baking enthusiast who wants to cook for the slightly out of ordinary flavours.

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Henrietta shares with us her experience in the art of country style bakeries by using naturals ingredients.

This is a delightful cookbook, the pictures make you feel as though you are right there in the cook's kitchen (which is really well lit and I am jealous) it has a homesteady feel, which I found nice. The recipes look delicious (I kinda lost it at the Dill, Haloumi, and Soured Cream Maslenica!) and they are clear and easy to follow. Overall I liked this cookbook, it is well worth the read.

A gorgeous book! It's a little bit fancy but also wholly approachable, my favorite mix in a cookbook. I am so eager to try some recipes... I bet I bookmarked two dozen.

I loved this cookbook. The recipes were a nice change from the ones I usually see. I can't wait to try out all the ones I've bookmarked.

The photography throughout this book was art in itself! The recipes were not only well-laid out with full-detail but all were healthy and work with fresh ingredients. Having never cooked with many of the alternative ingredients shared in this book, I can't wait to try some of the 80 or so recipes! Always dealing with digestive issues, I believe I've stumbled onto an incredible resource in this book.

I received an ebook copy in exchange for a fair review.

This is a really nice cookbook. The photos are beautiful and the recipes are fairly easy to follow. Although there are a few ingredients I think one might have to really search for, most are completely do-able.
Lots of neat ideas and very interesting takes on favourites. I recommend taking a look if you want to broaden your baking horizons!

If you love to bake, and are concerned about using natural ingredients, The Natural Baker: A new way to bake using the best natural ingredients by Henrietta Inman is a cookbook you’ll want to own. This cookbook includes recipes that call for different kinds of flour, organic produce, and other natural ingredients.

One of the first recipes from this book that I tried was the Breakfast Gruyère gougères with crispy bacon and watercress; they were delicious. The Halloumi, dill and soured cream Maslenica was incredible warm; the halloumi with creamy sauce was a unique treat that everyone loved. It was also good at room temperature. Cherry, pistachio and dark chocolate clafoutis with chocolate chip frozen yogurt is a treat that will be repeated. Other recipes in my queue are Cappuccio cake with whipped mascarpone coffee cream, Bacon-and-egg pies with spring onions (scallions) and tomato, and Five-in-one oaty cookie cakes. Even cooks who don’t care about organic or natural will find plenty of recipes that appeal.

The photographs are beautiful, and the recipes are easy to understand. Some of the recipes are absolutely mouthwatering, and many use seasonal produce and organic ingredients. This is a perfect cookbook to generate ideas for using summer fruits.

This isn’t a book for the mainstream baker who isn’t passionate about using natural ingredients and isn’t willing to search for some of the difficult to find ingredients. A good health food store is necessary, and nowadays there are health stores in most cities. It is definitely a book for those who are passionate about natural ingredients and has enough good recipes to keep everyone happy.

Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.

Beautifully organized cookbook full of pictures. Recipes are well laid out and easy to follow. The pictures make me want to make everything! To be a good cookbook it must have tons of pictures and this one meets that requirement! The recipes are unique. This isn’t one of those cookbooks that’s just like any other book. Lots of variety and interesting combinations. There are quite a few not regular pantry ingredients in some of the recipes, however. I would highly recommend this book! It’s excellent.

I received a copy of this book from netgalley and the publisher. Opinions stated in this review are my own.

I have mixed feelings about this book. First, the cons:

1. In order to use these recipes you need either a farm or money to shop at Whole Foods.
2. If you were to work your way through this book, you would need at least three different types of flour which will go bad because they're organic
3. There are so many ingredients I've never even heard of, which is a turn off for me.

The pros:
1: the recipes, at their core, are open to alterations and experimentation
2: many recipes take the form of some kind of tartlet or cake, which can be adapted to a muffin pan or silicone molds. I happen to adore muffin pan recipes.
3: influence for the recipes came from different cultures which I also live for.


Final verdict: I wouldn't buy this for myself because I probably wouldn't actually make anything from it. On the bright side, there are a few organic/natural mommies I know who might like it.

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Some recipe books just “grab” me from the moment I open them. Whilst this is a beautiful book, I have to admit that this was not one of them; my first reading through of the recipes left me thinking – all these weird flours and other ingredients that will be so hard to find? But on a second reading, I found myself increasingly intrigued by the use of interesting ingredients and unusual combinations, and bookmarking more and more recipes I would like to try.
The books starts with a short introduction on core ingredients including useful information on different flours – also a suggestion for using flaxseeds as a binder (egg replacement) and dairy alternatives. Ideal for people with allergies, but also wanting to use healthy alternative ingredients.

I like to try different ingredients and experimentation with recipes, But I was ultimately disappointed in this book as I had mixed results with the recipes. The brown sugar pecan meringues with quince and marsala cream were delicious. I was skeptical about the carrot and coriander crackers with mustard and anise seeds, (what would hold them together?) but was delighted with how easily the dough came together and rolled out. I would certainly make these again!
However, the apple pudding cake, made with rye flour, was stodgy and unappetizing and the yellow pea flour, quinoa, nut and seed loaf was gummy. The coconut and oat biscuits with chocolate and toasted flaked coconut were a little heavy (but the chocolate and coconut topping was good) I bought spelt flour to try the caramelized red onion, parsley and cheddar scones; unsatisfied with the texture, I tried the same recipe using a mixture of whole wheat and cake flour and was much happier with the results.
However, if you are cooking for someone with say a gluten allergy, this might well be the book for you. Bear in mind that you would need to have access to a supplier of chestnut flour, eikhorn flour, psyllium hisk powder, emmer flour etc.