Better Homes and Gardens Baking: More than 350 Recipes Plus Tips and Techniques Author: Better Homes and Gardens | Language: English | ISBN:
1118453263 | Format: EPUB
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More than 600 photos, featuring final dishes and steps of preparation, pack the pages of this thorough baking title put out by the well-known home and family magazine team. Chapters begin with iconic recipes, such as apple pie in the Pies & Tarts chapter, and Bûche de Noël for Holiday Baking. All the basics, including ice-box cookies, angel food cake, and brownies, are covered in the 350-plus recipes. Sections end with Make It Mine sidebars, which help cooks customize recipes for baked goods, such as muffins, cinnamon rolls, and streusel pie. Make it Mini sidebars show readers how to prepare individual-sized versions of some of the recipes, including Pomegranate Pavlova with Pistachios and Honey, and a strawberry-raspberry rhubarb crumble. Numbered recipe steps, along with a trustworthy tone and straightforward approach, make this a great starter baking book. (Oct.)
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- Hardcover: 528 pages
- Publisher: Better Homes & Gardens; 1 edition (October 8, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1118453263
- ISBN-13: 978-1118453261
- Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 8.4 x 1.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
I'm new to retirement. I've always wanted to teach myself how to bake, and I purchased a fabulous famous-brand stand mixer to help me with the task. When I would go into a book store--or wander around here on Amazon--looking for a comprehensive baking book, I couldn't identify one that appeared to be able to teach me the basics of *everything*, from baking bread to cookies to pies and even the formidable French croquembouche.
I've found it!
My mom always used the Better Homes and Gardens red-checked cookbook as I grew up in the 50's and 60's. She produced good and homey foods, but pretty simple fare, out of that classic 3-ring binder cookbook. She gave me my own copy as I moved out into my own home, but I found it too simple, too plain and too reliant on creamy canned soups and other prepared and processed foods. In her edition, there was a whole section on SPAM, for heaven's sake. So, I wasn't prepared for the breadth and depth of this ouevre by BHG.
Chapters: Basic Baking Techniques, Cookies, Bars and Brownies, Cakes and Cupcakes, Decorated Cakes, Pies and Tarts, Cheesecakes, Down Home Desserts, Artisan Breads, Quick Breads, Morning Favorites, Coffee Shop, Holiday Baking, and Weeknight Baking. Each chapter has basic instructions and information about the type of baking which is covered. Then, inside each of those chapters, the book provides ideas for "make-it-mine" for individualizing recipes--and for making mini-versions of recipes as well. There are instructions about using different types of flour, how to tweak a cheesecake to your family's specifications, how you can shape cinnamon rolls to your own liking, how to make a two layer cake into four gorgeous layers.
Recently, I looked through my friends' cookbook shelves to confirm my belief: We cooks tend to buy a comprehensive baking book in the early days of our homemaking "careers" and we stick with that book through the years. We get comfortable with a particular book or books, the pages are worn and spattered, and notes are handwritten here and there. Decades later, we still rely on those older books. Even though we are content in our nice, cozy and comfortable rut, it is still a rut...
I think it's time to break free! This is a great baking book, and after several weeks of scrutinizing its pages and working with its recipes, I am as comfortable with it as I am with my Pillsbury, King Arthur and Good Housekeeping baking books. In fact, I'm getting so comfortable with this new offering from BHG, that I'm ready to kiss the other three into retirement.
If you are a new baker and looking for your first all-purpose baking book, you can't make a better choice, or find better value, than this book.
This book is very innovative: And the innovation is evident in my favorite feature in this book: The second recipe in each chapter is a "Make It Mine" recipe that gives you a basic recipe (for instance, oatmeal cookies), and then provides alternatives for ingredients. (With the oatmeal recipe, you get 3 choices of fat, 4 choices of sugar, 4 spice choices, 3 flavor extract choices, 4 choices for flour, and 8 possible stir-ins.) Even when it is not designated as a "Make It Mine" recipe, you will very often find alternatives for nuts and other stir-ins and flavorings, toppings, and different flours and fats. The "Make-It-Mine" Birthday Cake recipe lists different baking times for use with different pan sizes--I really found that helpful.
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