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Just about everyone has one area of cookery they are less than confident about, so if you worry that your custard is always lumpy, or that your cakes sink, or roast potatoes turn out rubbery, this is the place to put it right. Follow Delia's 60+ step-by-step techniques, each one illustrated wtih colour photographs, and you'll wonder why you ever found anything difficult!

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