The Secrets of Baking: Simple Techniques for Sophisticated Desserts
The Secrets of Baking is a comprehensive primer that guides the cook through the world of baked goods and other desserts, from time-honored classics of the French patisserie to the inspired and fanciful creations that made Spago the famous restaurant it is today. At the same time, it advances a radically new understanding of these recipes, one that will give the baker greater flexibility and confidence in the kitchen. Instead of grouping desserts into traditional categories (pies, cakes, cookies), Sherry Yard arranges them around crucial master recipes. Starting with these recipes — simple, basic guidelines for making caramel, chocolate sauce, lemon curd, pound cake, and brioche, to name just a few — Yard shows...
more infoThe Great British Bake Off: How to Bake: The Perfect Victoria Sponge and Other Baking Secrets
Twelve new amateur bakers are ready to rise to the Great British Bake Off challenge. While they don their aprons, adjust to their new ovens, and get used to baking in a tent, this book takes you through the challenges from the series and shows you how to achieve baking perfection. Throughout the book, Mary and Paul are on hand with expert advice and practical tips to help you create perfect cakes, biscuits, breads, pastries, pies, and teatime treats every time. Each chapter begins with a specific baking skill, which, once mastered, allows you to tackle Mary and Paul's technical challenges, as seen on the show, with confidence. There are over 120 recipes in...
more infoBaking by Flavor
Lisa Yockelson's classic guide to baking—finally in paperback Flavor is the essence of fine baking, the source of wonderful tastes and aromas that tempt the palate and delight the senses. In Baking by Flavor, Lisa Yockelson shares flavor-boosting secrets that can make virtually any recipe burst with new vigor and freshness. She reveals concepts and techniques for using 18 basic ingredients, including chocolate, vanilla, apricot, and lemon—in order to stack flavors layer by delicious layer. Home bakers will learn to bring excite to old classics as the author enlivens a dormant pound cake by scenting its sugar with vanilla, creams the butter with vanilla scrapings, and beats egg yolks with a double-strength vanilla extract....
more infoBaking for Beginners (Quick & Easy, Proven Recipes)
Do you want to have a bash at biscuits, bake your own bread or attempt a Victoria sponge, but don't know the difference between whisking and folding? This great new cookbook takes you through all the basics of baking, including essential ingredients and equipment, key recipes for pastry, cakes, icings and meringues, and explains culinary terms. With lots of brand new recipes, the book ranges from extra-simple to slightly more advanced, and includes cakes, cupcakes and muffins, biscuits and cookies, pies and puddings, breads and scones and some savoury pies and pastry – from Lemon Drizzle Cake to Smoked Haddock Tart. Price: $6.52 (as of Oct 19th, 2023 04:12...
more infoBaking Style: Art Craft Recipes
A dazzling celebration of the art and craft of baking In Baking Style, the award-winning author of Baking by Flavor and ChocolateChocolate, presents what has fascinated her during a lifetime of baking. In 100 essays and more than 200 recipes, along with 166 full-color images, Baking Style is infused with discoveries, inspirations, and exacting but simple recipes for capturing the art and craft of baking at home. Lisa Yockelson is the award-winning author of Baking by Flavor and ChocolateChocolate. Her articles, essays, and recipes have appeared in national publications such as the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, and Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture. At her interactive website and blog, bakingstylediary.com, she continues...
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