Download PDF Martha Stewart Baking Handbook Martha Stewart 9780307236722 Books
Download PDF Martha Stewart Baking Handbook Martha Stewart 9780307236722 Books
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Martha Stewart Baking Handbook Martha Stewart 9780307236722 Books Reviews
- Best baking recipe book hands down! I love so many recipes from this book, I always get the most complements when I bake a recipe from here. I really don't use to many other recipes because these are that good . Carrot cake cupcakes , chocolate cupcakes, strawberry cupcakes, 4th of July blueberry pie, almond apple pie, I could go on and on. Do yourself a favor a get this book'
- Ok, here's a cute story I had an itch to go to pastry school. I bought this book, made several recipes (which I loooved) and I enrolled in culinary school about six months after I got it. True story.
The edition itself is gorgeous. It's hard cover, printed on very fancy feeling paper. There's pictures for everything, which I truly appreciate in a cooking book. The procedures are easy to follow, the recipes are simple enough so you don't have to go crazy finding weird ingredients (although you can find anything on , right?!). It is also a very educational book in the sense that it talks about why these ingredients work, or how these ingredients react with each other, or why you should use a specific tool in order to achieve a great looking final product.
If you read the book front cover to back, you will end up being a more knowledgeable baker, for sure. The book covers the basics (and a bit more) from sponge cake, to cut out cookies, to croissants, to pies, tarts, brownies, danish, cupcakes, fillings and frostings, you name it. Sometimes I wish the recipes were a liiiittle bit more interesting, but I can honestly say that if you master the recipes in this book, you can go and make pretty much anything else.
-Ceci - Outstanding! That's about how to sum up Martha's lastest tome on the finer points of baking. As with all her other books, it is the attention to the details that makes her stand out among those who wish to emulate her. This latest addition to "kitchen education" is a real winner. I have never felt that being in the kitchen was a step back for women or anyone who enjoyed homemaking; there are those of us who relish the joy we bring to the table with the food that we gladly and lovingly prepare. You will absolutely love these recipes for cookies, cakes, breads, etc. Some are old-fashioned favorites and others have a new twist to them that will surprise you. I found several recipes from my childhood that I thought no one else would know, yet here they are in typical Martha-style with beautiful color and detail. It was such a wonderful surprise to find the sfogliatelle and pignoli nut cookie recipes that it made me think of the "old neighborhood" and that "blast from the past" alone was worth the price.
You will be beyond happy when you see what is within these 415 pages of baking joy; I couldn't begin to count how many recipes are within these pages. But there are in all, six chapters of recipes, with the opening section giving you
A Letter from Martha
General Baking Tips
General Baking Equipment
General Baking Techniques
Each of these above sections come with crystal clear photos that accompany each instruction point made within that area so you know of which pan, spoon, utensil, etc. you need to accomplish which task. This is the trademark of what Martha represents in her desire to give you every detail both visually and in written description.
Then begins the excitement of what chapter to choose from
One Simple Baked Goods
Two Cookies
Three Cakes
Four Pies, Tarts, Cobblers, and Crisps
Five Yeasted Baked Goods
Six Pastries
The last section is then completed by
Basic Recipes
Sources
Index
Every single photo is so large, crisp, and so detailed, that you can actually see each delicate layer of puff pastry, when you are looking at the recipe for Chocolate Napoleans. All the breads and cookies and pies.........there is just no end to the spectacular content of this book. I feel that this is by far, one of her very best books, though this is exactly how she approached the creation of all her mediums.
It is definitely "a good thing". Enjoy! - I bought this after watching a number of episodes by the same name. The instructions are very clear and there are many dos and don'ts for the novice and the expert. I loved the info on the utensils and how to correctly use them. Martha Stewart does a good job of explaining the basics of cooking and how to get an excellent bake that will surprise your friends. I have a lot of cookbooks by all the "famous" chefs, but this is the best. Reading it will make sense on why you do what you do to have an outstanding bake. Just a great cookbook with interesting details that separates the good, the bad and the ugly cooks. The books will help make you a "good."
One problem is that you may find your cooking skills have not only increased but your weight too! -)
I am baking for Christmas and will give friends wrapped goods as gifts. Given their responses so far, they will be pleased. - What a great repertoire of recipes. Everything from American fallbacks to European classics such as Dobos Torte, which is pretty much impossible to find in other cookbooks nowadays. Although some of the recipes have been altered for the modern and busy baker. I attempted to make the Dobos Torte a few years ago following a traditional recipe and I spent 8 hours in the kitchen. I noticed significant shortcuts in Martha's recipe here and will definitely try her faster version.
- I had never baked anything except box cupcakes which I iced with can icing before I bought this book. I made cranberry-pistachio biscotti. The best biscotti I have ever eaten. Next up was the parmesan-Rosemary crackers. Both were well worth the effort and looked just like the pictures in the book. Today I am making the blackberry roulade. I would highly recommend this book for anyone new to baking. I cannot speak for those who are experts in baking.
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