Kitchen Secrets: A Culinary Survival Guide to Tips, Techniques & Recipes - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0762100087 ISBN 13: 9780762100088

Publisher: The Reader's Digest Association, 1997

Synopsis

Offers hints, tips, and professional secrets from well-known chefs for fixing cooking mistakes and creating faultless meals, and includes nearly four hundred recipes as well as substitute ingredients and advice on reducing fat and cholesterol in recipes.

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The ultimate kitchen resource-recipes, hints, tips, and techniques covering every aspect of preparing, cooking, and serving great dishes. * Step-by-step directions for all basic kitchen techniques, plus clear instructional photographs. * More than 200 recipes for traditional American foods and exciting variations. * The best substitutions for ingredients you don't have-or don't like. * Secrets for making a family favorite taste even better. * Expert tips on avoiding common mistakes and mishaps. * Invaluable advice on rescuing disasters-from cream soups that curdle to lumps in melted chocolate to souffles that flop. * What equipment to use and how to use it. * Easy to use reference charts, handy checklists, and concise work-saver sidebars.

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Every cook comes up against questions in the kitchen from time to time. What should you do if a recipe calls for buttermilk and there's none to be had? Why does a souffle recipe work perfectly for you one time and fail the next? Wouldn't it be great to have a cookbook that provides the answers to your questions right on the page with the recipe? KITCHEN SECRETS is that book. On these pages we've covered the recipes, techniques, and ingredients that are at the heart of American cooking-a blend of traditional and new ideas. With each recipe we've tried to address the many questions that both novice and experienced cooks are apt to have, whether they're about working with dough, keeping a quiche from curdling, or making a more flavorful chicken broth. Our answers appear as hundreds of hints, tips, and secrets that range from step-by-step sequences and easy-reference charts to suggestions for lowering cholesterol, substituting ingredients, choosing the right equipment, getting the best flavor-everything you need to know for dependable results. All of the hints and tips are cross-indexed in the back of the book. We think you will find KITCHEN SECRETS fun to browse through and easy to use. We hope you will enjoy every recipe you make from these pages.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Reader's Digest Association
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0762100087
• ISBN 13: 9780762100088
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 394
• Editor: Judith Cressy