Harry Thomas, Baker & Musician

WOMEN AT WORK CROWDFUND REPORT: We have now raised £13,701 out of £25,000, contributed by 126 people, and we have 7 days to go. Click here to contribute Next tickets available for The Gentle Author’s Tour of Spitalfields on Saturday 16th May. Click here to book The recipe is old but the cakes are fresh This is Harry Thomas, baker at Townhouse, who makes all the cakes for our walking tours. His Queen Cakes from a recipe of 1721, served in the drawing room of the three hundred year house overlooking Christ Church, Spitalfields, have proved to be the ideal restorative for guests when they put their feet up and relax after a ramble round the neighbourhood. Yet Harry has another string to his bow, since he matches his superlative flair in baking with an equal talent in music and songwriting – as Contributing Photographer Sarah Ainslie and I discovered when we joined him in the basement kitchen to hear the full story and observe the culinary spectacle of baking in progress. “I would…