Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0618443363
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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Editorial Reviews
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In Baking with Julia (Child, of course) and Desserts by Pierre Hermé, Dorrie Greenspan gave voice to other baking experts while ensuring their recipes worked. Now, in Baking: From My Home to Yours, she steps fully onstage with a collection of 230-plus immediately attractive recipes ranging from breakfast sweets, cakes, and tarts to puddings, custards, ice creams, and crisps. This is homey, eminently doable baking that encompasses the more familiar, like sugar-topped molasses spice cookies, pecan sticky buns, and lemon tart, but also includes the temptingly original, such as Devil’s Food White-Out Cake, Coconut-Roasted Pineapple Dacquoise, and Toasted Almond Scones. Her cookie selection, which offers the standout Chocolate Malted Whopper Drops, is particularly good, as is her brownie group, a mini-chapter featuring a very edible espresso cheesecake variation.
Greenspan knows her stuff, of course, but it’s her droll, anecdotal style (readers learn, for example how a chocolate cake got her fired) and her recipe-making expertise that sets the book apart. Precise descriptions of the baked goods–a pound cake, for example, is said to have a “moist, tightly knit crumb”–help readers understand baking anatomy. Equally exact, and reassuring, are her recipe guideposts–she notes, for example, that rubbing butter into the dry ingredients when making a biscuit recipe will result in “pea-size pieces, pieces the size of oatmeal flakes, and pieces the size of everything in between.” With recipe variations and enticing color photos, the book will inspire–and inform–baking novices and experts alike. –Arthur Boehm
Product Description:
Dorie Greenspan has written recipes for the most eminent chefs in
the world: Pierre Hermé, Daniel Boulud, and arguably the greatest
of them all, Julia Child, who once told Dorie, “You write recipes
just the way I do.” Her recipe writing has won widespread praise for its
literate curiosity and “patient but exuberant style.” (One hard-boiled
critic called it “a joy forever.”) In Baking: From My Home to Yours, her
masterwork, Dorie applies the lessons from three decades of experience
to her first and real love: home baking. The 300 recipes will
seduce a new generation of bakers, whether their favorite kitchen tools
are a bowl and a whisk or a stand mixer and a baker’s torch.
Even the most homey of the recipes are very special. Dorie’s
favorite raisin swirl bread. Big spicy muffins from her stint as a baker in
a famous New York City restaurant. French chocolate brownies (a
Parisian pastry chef begged for the recipe). A dramatic black and white
cake for a “wow” occasion. Pierre Hermé’s extraordinary lemon tart.
The generous helpings of background information, abundant stories,
and hundreds of professional hints set Baking apart as a one-of-a-kind
cookbook. And as if all of this weren’t more than enough, Dorie has
appended a fascinating minibook, A Dessertmaker’s Glossary, with
more than 100 entries, from why using one’s fingers is often best, to
how to buy the finest butter, to how the bundt pan got its name.
Customer Reviews
What a Disappointment by C. G. Welch
I must preface, by saying I’ve been baking for more than 40 years.
I purchased this cookbook anticipating to gain new and delicious recipes. The book is beautiful, pictures are lovely, instructions are easy. Every recipe I’ve tried, has failed (badly). I should have visited my Library first, the book is NOT cheap. I doubt I’ll use it as a reference again.
baking by Karen Eckhardt
I bought this cookbook for my daughter-in-law who requested it. She made us a delicious cake using one of the recipes. She said the author of the book is quoted on baking blogs and web sites. So she seemed happy with it.
Happy baker with this book by SB
Checked this book out from the library and soon found out I needed to purchase it for my collection. I haven’t been disappointed from what I have made so far.
Unique choices by A. L. W.
I have been so pleased with the variety and taste of the recipes I’ve tried thus far. Particularly The Cottage Cheese Pufflets were amazing and are among my favorite in the book thus far. There are many photos in the book which is very helpful. Greenspan always delivers.
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