Mary Berry Cookery Course (2016)

Mary Berry builds this one around 12 master recipes, such as leek and potato soup, chargrilled salmon fillets and a Victoria sandwich cake, each taken step by step so you learn the method by actually cooking it. More than 100 further recipes follow, every one with a photo of the finished dish, along with techniques like whipping egg whites. It is a gentler, more structured route than a big reference book: master a recipe, then use what it taught you on the next. The cooking is British in style, so expect a few dishes and ingredient names that read differently in an American kitchen.