Real homes boydens.co.uk 54 The cherry on the We chat to ‘wonder baker’, author and TV cook Juliet Sear about her gorgeous new kitchen, which has to work doubly hard as a recipe testing space and filming location. What’s your earliest memory of cooking and baking? My earliest memory of cooking is making fried eggs when I was little, and I made my first family roast dinner when I was eleven. I didn’t really bake at all as my mum used to only cook savoury food. My auntie was the baker, so I used to watch her make lots of cakes. I only got into baking once I moved in with my husband and I started throwing dinner parties. How did you go about turning a passion into a career as a baker and author? I started making birthday cakes for friends and family to earn some extra money when the kids were babies and toddlers. That turned into something a bit bigger when I started to supply a local café with cakes and savoury tarts. It kind of took over the kitchen at home, but I enjoyed it and I liked being able to be my own boss. I used to juggle things around nursery and kids’ clubs. Once all the kids had started school, I got a part-time job at Little Venice Cake Company in London and spent a couple of years working there, and learnt lots of techniques and skills from a lady called Christine Lee. We used to have a really good laugh and we’re still friends today. After that, I started my own business, which was more than fifteen years ago now, and that led to being on TV, writing books, being in magazines and making cakes for celebrities. Please tell us a little about your home – what style of property is it, what are your favourite rooms and why? I live in London in a classic Georgian-style house with big windows and high ceilings. My favourite room is the bathroom as I love a bath. It’s the first room we renovated after moving in. We put in a new bathroom in a Victorian style to go with the house, including a slipper bath, which is the place I go to unwind and relax. What are your favourite things to bake at home? Definitely bread. I love eating bread and it’s something that fills the house with an incredible smell. I love to have fresh sourdough on the go so all my family can have delicious homemade sourdough on tap. It’s really easy to make too. CAKE!
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy MTA4ODM=