With delicious recipes from soups, starters and mains to bread, puddings and cakes, this book helps you to master the foundations of cooking and build your culinary repertoire. It also offers advice on ingredients and how to keep a well-stocked pantry, and more.

Let Mary Berry take you from new cook to good cook or from good cook to great cook, with simple recipes for classic dishes.

Master the foundations of home cooking with Mary's expert guidance and build your culinary repertoire with delicious recipes for soups, starters, and mains, as well as bread, puddings, and cakes.

Find out how Mary gets her roast chicken skin so crispy and how she ensures her apple pie doesn't have a "soggy bottom". Perfect the basics of cooking with 12 classic 'master recipes' such as leek and potato soup, chargrilled salmon fillets, and Victoria sponge, with step-by-step instructions. Then cook your way to success with over 100 fail-safe recipes, each with a photograph of the finished dish so you know what you're aiming for every time.

Mary also provides advice on ingredients and how to keep a well-stocked pantry, as well as teaching cooking methods covering everything from how to boil eggs to how to cook rice, so you can guarantee perfect results every time.

Mary Berry's Cookery Course is ideal for all home cooks who want to learn to cook 'the Mary Berry way'.