Food

Maria Floris baked cakes for Winston Churchill, but her recipes were designed for ‘even the greatest simpleton’




Hungarian pastry chef Maria Floris sounds as if she was a very charming woman, if her “voice” in the International Wine and Food Society’s Bakery – Cakes and Simple Confectionery (1968) is anything to go by. There’s little to find online about Floris, who moved from Budapest to London, where she opened a bakery and pastry shop in 1939, and who died soon after the publication of this book. But in its introduction, and throughout its pages, she reveals small, interesting details about herself and…



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