Many people might think that this recipe book is a strange place to include a few stories about my illness (Mixed dementia with Alzheimer's) but as you will soon see by reading through the book Baking was one of the loves of my life and I was devastated when I was first diagnosed with Mixed Dementia back in 2005 as it meant I had to all but give up my profession and our Bakery shop that I had started up in our village in Indonesia due to forgetting my recipes, mixing procedures, and I would even forget when products were baking in the oven, but I was determined that this illness wasn't going...

This my second book of recipes is the culmination of many months of exhausting work that's had my brain going in overdrive trying to remember all the recipes and making me delve deep down into my faltering memory bank for the preparation methods, but I finally got it done, which has given me a great sense of satisfaction and achievement, as in truth this was something that I wanted to do an extremely long time ago just after my early retirement but kept putting it off and then when Sumi and I opened our own bakery and cafe out here in Dander Indonesia where we live there never seemed to be...