Beskrivelse
In the chapter on cakes, Floris writes: “I think, in my whole life nothing has given me so much pleasure as to plan and make cakes for Sir Winston Churchill. These cakes have given me the unearned reputation of being able to design just the right birthday cake for anybody. That is not true. He gave me the ideas for his own birthday cakes from his very varied activities. “My favourite was a cake in the form of a spiral, decorated with 32 models of his famous hats. I suppose it is very wrong on my part to call that cake a masterpiece, that is if we can call a cake a masterpiece at all, but I do, and I do more. I called it ‘Churchill’s life story in hats’.” Later, in the same chapter, Floris mentions making wedding cakes for other famous clients: Countess Esterhazy, the Duke of Bedford (“The cake was unbelievably beautiful. The Duke brought me a sample of a rare lily, a fresh flower, which was a beautiful specimen. Only ours made of sugar looked even better”), the duke’s son, and Princess Margaret. Fortunately, the recipes in Cakes and Simple Confectionery are not as intricate as those special birthday and wedding cakes; many are quite simple and, surprisingly, quite international – not just from Hungary or Britain. They include banbury cakes, ginger cake, many recipes for scones (which have their own chapter), potato bread, wholemeal bread, brioche, cheesecake, madeira cake, hot chocolate gâteau, rum baba, bakewell tart, madeleines, strudel, florentines and stollen.
