Getting the right tools for baking

Carol O’Callaghan says a good cook has to have good tools for baking.   

A recent conversation with the tribal elders told of my grandmother’s generation and how they prepared for Christmas baking.

Back then chickens were fully liberated girls, taking a lengthy sabbatical from egg laying over winter which necessitated some wiliness on the part of domestic bakers to ensure they had plenty of eggs for Christmas baking in October.