Synopsis
Here are 50 uncomplicated recipes for everyone's favorite baked goods. This cookbook is designed to take the confusion out of baking, eliminate weird and over-trendy concoctions, and make baking fun again.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1997-10-01 |
| Size | | Height: | 7.8 in | | Width: | 7.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 9.6 oz |
Publisher's Note
An extraordinary baker distills a lifetime of experience into _ simple, sure-fire, and absolutely delicious recipes that anyone can follow and enjoy. Murray Jaffe knows that there are thousands of recipes for something as simple as apple pie: sour-cream apple pie, deep-dish apple pie, walnut-raisin apple pie, and on and on. And there are just as many recipes for piecrusts, with just as many choices: butter, shortening, or oil? Brown sugar or white? Rolled or pressed? For anyone who finds baking somewhat intimidating, all those choices can be overwhelming. The Perfect Recipe Baking Book contains fifty uncomplicated recipes guaranteed to produce spectacular and satisfying results for everything from apple pie to coffee cake, zucchini bread, peanut butter cookies, and blueberry muffins. Each one has been extensively tested to ensure that not only does it work, but that there is just no better way to bake it. As a professional baker-turned-millionaire, Jaffe is devoted to his craft. He knows what people like to eat and what they want to bake. He has spent his retirement tirelessly testing and perfecting these recipes for the home baker, creating the ideal version he would want to eat for the rest of his life. The results are fabulous. With invaluable tips on equipment, ovens, ingredients and baking principles, The Perfect Recipe Baking Book is, quite simply, the only baking book most of us will ever need. "The author deconstructs 50 classic pies, cakes and cookies with paternal and meticulous detail". -- The New York Times
Industry Reviews
From the woman who gave us Rosie's All-Butter Fresh Cream Sugar-Packed Baking Book (LJ 12/15/91) now comes dozens of delicious, mouthwatering cookies. Organized by type Chewy Crunchy, Crispy Chumpy Sandwiched Together, etc. Rosenberg's delectable recipes range from Fresh Ginger Crisps to Peanut Butter Topped Brownies to Baby Cheesecakes. An essential purchase for any baking collection. Jaffe, the retired CEO of a wholesale baking business in California, decided that the cookbook he really wanted was a collection of the one best basic recipe for classics from cheesecake to brownies and so he set out to write it. Here are clear and uncomplicated recipes for traditional favorites from Devil's Food Cake and Coconut Cream Pie to Peanut Butter Cookies and Blueberry Muffins. Novice bakers will find Jaffe's sensible, no-nonsense approach reassuring, and although Jaffe says he's a purist no chocolate chips in his cheesecake other experienced bakers may have fun developing their own variations of his good, basic recipes. For most collections. Bloom, a former pastry chef and author of The International Dictionary of Desserts, Pastries, and Confections (LJ 3/15/95), loves spices. Of course, cinnamon, ginger, and allspice are common in baked goods and other desserts, and she does include Double-Ginger Shortbread and Almond Cinnamon Stars. But she also has Black Pepper Biscotti, Cardamon Quick Bread, Saffron Rice Pudding, and dozens of other recipes featuring spices more commonly used in savory dishes. Recommended for most baking collections.
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Directions for cakes, pies, cobblers, cookies, muffins and other sweet confections are simplified by a 79-year-old former CEO of a large California-based wholesale bakery. Jaffe attempts to banish all mystery from the baking process in order to encourage the timid to tackle what might heretofore have been a dauntingtask. His utter dedication to clarity and basic fare, however, doesn't leave much room for imagination and results in a methodical, occasionally plodding slate of baked goods that are long on ease and short on excitement. Still, tyro bakers looking for straightforward techniques to serve up a trusty Devil's Food Cake, Pumpkin Pie, Blueberry Crisp, Strawberry Shortcake, Hermits or Brownies will find Jaffe a calming voice. A far more convincing selection of "best" dessert recipes is found in The Cook's Bible (Forecasts, July 15). (Nov.)
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