Cookies are fun--and they're better than ever with this inspired collection of recipes and tips guaranteed to please all, from treat-hungry kids, to full-grown cookie connoisseurs! Absolutely delicious cookie treats from every corner of the world. Full-color photographs.
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Like the six other cookbooks in the Barron's "Joy of" series, this is sensible, straightforward and illustrated with useful line drawings and tempting color photographs. Herbst (Tastemaker Award-winning Breads, Simply Sensational Desserts) appears regularly on television as Hour Magazine's cooking expert. She deftly utilizes her skills here, mapping out the many avenues of cookie-making: bar, rolled, drop, hand-formed, pressed, refrigerator, chocolate, chocolate-chip and holiday cookies. The lucid recipes are generally easily accomplished. Cookies have a wide appeal, spanning all ages and nationalities, making them perhaps the most universally consistent dessert. Recipes to savor include: Irish whiskey seed cakes, British Guyanan Georgetown lime cookies, Armenian nut-filled cigar cookies, Icelandic egg cookies, Russian pigtails, Swedish angels, Spanish cats' tongues, Egyptian orange flower-almond cookies and American sugar bush softies, pumpkin Halloween cookies and "stained glass" Christmas cookies. A variety of tips, glossary of ingredients and a trouble-shooting section are a boon to novices. BOMC and Better Homes and Gardens Cook Book Club selections; author tour.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Sharon Tyler Herbst is the award-winning author of twelve books on food and wine, and the foremost writer of culinary reference books, including the bestselling Food Lover's Companion and Food Lover's Tiptionary.
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My copy is spattered with ingredients from front to back. There is not a loser recipe in the bunch. Illustrations scattered throughout inspire you to try new and old favorites. The recipe format is easy to read and directions are clear and simple. I especially like that there are international recipes included. The Italian wine cookies, the cinnamon bars and Kentucky bourbon bars are always on my Christmas cookie platter. I have many cookbooks and Christmas magazines with recipes but I could chuck them all in favor of this one little gem of a cookbook.
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Sharon Tyler Herbst's Joy of Cookies has just about everything that I look for in a cookbook. The introduction gives a brief history of the cookie and then a detailed description of cookie baking basics, equipment, ingredients, techniques, all accompanied by simple yet clear line drawings. The recipe section itself is organized according to cookie type: bar cookies, drop cookies, etc. The recipes, complete with country of origin and the cookie's name in that language are clear and easy to follow. The book is full of full page color photographs that are clearly labeled. The book is an odd shape and gives the impression that a previous edition may have been larger overall, but that doesn't take away from the book's usefulness. This would make a fine present for a budding baker.
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Excellent, excellent book,
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I can only echo what other reviewers have said: There's not a loser in the bunch. Every recipe I've tried -- and I've tried many -- turns out perfectly. I love the variations provided for most recipes, and since I frequently bake cookies to give as gifts, I find their information on the shelf life and proper storage of each cookie particularly useful.My biggest problem with this book? Deciding which of the wonderful recipes to make! It's really an embarrassment of riches. I'm about to purchase my second copy of this book, as my first (the paperback edition) has seen so much use that it's starting to fall apart!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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Preheating The Oven: Turn the oven to the designated temperature 10 to 15 minutes before beginning to bake. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
decorative cookie stamp, coarse decorating sugar, reroll dough scraps, checkerboard log, light unsulphured molasses, strips one way, salt until light, roll teaspoons, additional granulated sugar, cut chilled dough, scalloped cutter, creamy glaze, vanilla until light, cookie base, beating until egg whites, ground toasted almonds, arrange cutouts, large baking sheets, cut out dough, tablespoons instant coffee powder, egg glaze, silver dragees, combine powdered sugar, chopped maraschino cherries, finely grated zest Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Grand Marnier, Middle Eastern, Basler Brunsli, Crunchy Almond Strips, Pistachio Butter Rings New!
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Preheating The Oven: Turn the oven to the designated temperature 10 to 15 minutes before beginning to bake. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
decorative cookie stamp, coarse decorating sugar, reroll dough scraps, checkerboard log, light unsulphured molasses, strips one way, salt until light, roll teaspoons, additional granulated sugar, cut chilled dough, scalloped cutter, creamy glaze, vanilla until light, cookie base, beating until egg whites, ground toasted almonds, arrange cutouts, large baking sheets, cut out dough, tablespoons instant coffee powder, egg glaze, silver dragees, combine powdered sugar, chopped maraschino cherries, finely grated zest Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Grand Marnier, Middle Eastern, Basler Brunsli, Crunchy Almond Strips, Pistachio Butter Rings New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson on page 55
- Remembrance of Things Past Volumes 1-3 Box Set by Marcel Proust on page 99
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