Baking at High Altitude/the Muffin Lady's Old Fashioned Recipes: The Muffin Lady's Old Fashioned Recipes - Softcover

Randi Lee Levin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 097450081X ISBN 13: 9780974500812

Publisher: The Muffin Lady Inc, 2006

Synopsis

No more high altitude baking disasters! Awarded Best First Cookbook in the World, Baking , offers a variety of recipes and tips for successfully baking in higher elevations and avoiding results such as flat cookies, concave cakes, and dry muffins. These phenomenal recipes have been shared and passed down through generations so that all may share in the goodness of scrumptious tasting, homemade, attractive treats; including recipes and tips designed for those with special dietary needs.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Within the pages of this recipe book, you will find quite an outstanding variety of baked goods. You will discover recipes that have been shared and enjoyed for many generations. In other words, they are genuinely old-fashioned treats. The uniqueness of this recipe book is that it was written for scratch baking at High Altitude, or at a minimum of 4000 feet above sea level.Some people consider baking at high altitude an art, but with this book, you will find that it is quite simple and as easy as 1-2-3. IF you know how to measure, and know how to mix ingredients, then all you need to do is follow the wonderful recipes and tips found among the pages of this recipe book.The following pages include scratch baking recipes and tips for learning how to adjust all recipes to high altitude baking. Many recipes can be altered to meet dietary needs, such as recipes that are low in fat and sugar free.Many of the recipes within the pages have been used for professional preparation over many years. The Muffin Lady has been honored to serve such customers as the Tattered Cover Bookstores in Denver, Colorado and Wild Oats Natural Marketplace, found among several states in the Southwest.The purpose of this book is to share many of the recipes requested by friends and customers.

About the Author:

Raised in Philadelphia, Randi s appreciation for preparing good foods and helping others began before she could read and write. In her home and grandmother s kitchen, she would watch, learn and taste as her family members created, served and shared a fine variety of diverse foods. As she grew, she was often requested to bake for family and friends. With a passion for helping others, she began studying Psychology in High School, moved to Colorado, and acquired several degrees in Psychology and Education, while the hours of helping children overcome difficulties turned into years. The values instilled from the presentation of good foods remained strong, and with a desire to reproduce such tastes in high elevations she quickly learned to adapt cherished family recipes to higher elevations and would often bring such treats to her students and clients as an incentive to improve their work/behavior. This career abruptly ended in 1992 after previously being diagnosed with a brain tumor and disease Acromeglia. Upon advice of a neighbor she began baking and delivering her treats around her home town of Evergreen, Colorado. Impressed with the tastes and diversity of treats the local Postal Service Employees began calling her The Muffin Lady and 1 year later she legalized this title and added a full commercial kitchen to her home. Since that time, she has been honored to supply such clients as Wild Oats Natural Marketplace, The Tattered Cover Bookstores and various coffee shops and individual customers in the area. Years went by, the requests for this or that recipe was frequent, as were the requests for just how she successfully bakes such scrumptious treats so high above the ocean. One day another friend suggested that she write a cookbook, so without having any idea what she was getting herself into, she did: Baking at High Altitude. Since that time, this book has been honored to receive a couple awards: 1st Place EVVY Award from Colorado Independent Publishers Association

About this edition

• Publisher: The Muffin Lady Inc
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 097450081X
• ISBN 13: 9780974500812
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 270
• Editor: Hassel Bradley Wright