New Baking Book (Better Homes & Gardens) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0696209713 ISBN 13: 9780696209710

Publisher: Better Homes & Gardens Books, 1999

Synopsis

Features more than six hundred kitchen-tested recipes, nutritional analyses, and step-by-step directions

About this title

From Publishers Weekly

With an excellent section on bread baking and a few scattered recipes for savory baked goods, this collection of 600 recipes remains mostly a celebration of American desserts, offering a glimpse into the kitchens and dining rooms of middle America from the 1930s to the present. The quirky, but surprisingly effective, organization underscores the point: the section "Old Fashioned Desserts" features vintage recipes from the magazine, the Apple-Cherry Pandowdies, Blackberry Cobblers and Baked Custards of our grandparents' Sunday dinners. The abundance of cheesecake recipes (18 in all, including a Cafe Au Lait variation) conjure up 1970s dinner parties, while "Spectacular Desserts" includes a Della Robbia Fruit Tart and Olive Oil Genoise in Strawberry Champagne Sauce. Pies and tarts, cakes, cookies and bars, and quick breads get their fair share of attention. Selected recipes in each section are tagged "best loved," "low fat" and "easy." Each recipe comes with a complete breakout of nutritional information, and the 270 photographs illustrating how-to basics are especially helpful. Occasionally recipes are broken into steps somewhat arbitrarily; readers will do well to read through the instructions before beginning their work. With its characteristic perky, can-do spirit, this comprehensive collection will appeal to anyone with a soft spot for American desserts. 125,000 first printing.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Better Homes & Gardens Books
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0696209713
• ISBN 13: 9780696209710
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: Better Homes And Gardens Books