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A Baker's Field Guide to Doughnuts: More Than 60 Warm and Fresh Homemade Treats Paperback – September 18, 2012
- Print length176 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHarvard Common Press
- Publication dateSeptember 18, 2012
- Dimensions6.5 x 0.5 x 10.13 inches
- ISBN-101558327886
- ISBN-13978-1558327887
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"Bakers everywhere will be just as excited as I am to have the best of Dede Wilson all in one place. From gift-worthy Christmas candies to nearly a hundred varieties of chocolate chip cookies –plus plenty more, every baker should have The Baker’s Field Guide series in the kitchen, which they’ll refer to again and again."
–David Lebovitz, author of Ready for Dessert and The Perfect Scoop
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A Baker's Field Guide to Doughnuts
More than 60 Warm and Fresh Homemade TreatsBy Dede WilsonHarvard Common Press
Copyright © 2012 Dede WilsonAll right reserved.
ISBN: 9781558327887
Introduction
Doughnuts or donuts, however you spell this sweet treat—the mere word elicits a passionate response from devotees. A Baker’s Field Guide to Doughnuts brings you the recipes and information you need to make airy, yeast-risen doughnuts as well as cakelike baking powder doughnuts in flavors sure to please both kids and adults, whether you’re looking for a classic or something new. You will also find doughnuts’ brethren, such as fritters, churros, and beignets, in all sorts of flavors, shapes, and sizes.
Doughnut history is murky: Some say they were brought to North America by Dutch settlers, while others point to the fact that archaeologists have found remnants of fried ring-shaped cakes in the southwestern United States, suggesting that they were made by early Native Americans. Regardless of their origin, by the 1920s doughnuts were being mass-produced in the United States and had become a standard American treat. The popularity of doughnuts was firmly cemented with the opening of large chains such as Krispy Kreme and Dunkin’ Donuts in the ’40s and ’50s—in fact, most people have only ever bought their doughnuts, never made them at home.
I hope to change that in A Baker’s Field Guide to Doughnuts, as making your own doughnuts requires mastering just a few techniques and will reward you with incredible flavor and texture that you simply won’t find in store-bought doughnuts.
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Product details
- Publisher : Harvard Common Press (September 18, 2012)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 176 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1558327886
- ISBN-13 : 978-1558327887
- Item Weight : 1.12 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.5 x 0.5 x 10.13 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,619,769 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,219 in Pastry Baking (Books)
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About the author

Dédé Wilson is a popular food writer, former Bon Appetit Contributing Editor and television personality. Her current focus is on the low-FODMAP diet and building FODMAPeveryday.com, where you can learn to THRIVE on the low FODMAP diet. Her most recent book is The Low-FODMAP Diet Step by Step. Kate Scarlata RDN wrote the introductory chapters on the diet and then there over 130 professionally tested recipes for you to enjoy!
Dédé hosted two public television series, Seasonings with Dédé Wilson, in wide distribution throughout the U.S. and Canada, and The Holiday Table. Wilson has been a spokesperson for KitchenAid, making frequent live and televised appearances around the country for KitchenAid products as well as for other national food, lifestyle and housewares brands. Wilson has appeared on all the major TV networks and has been invited frequently to appear on shows including Today, The View, CBS's The early Show, Dr. Oz among others. She has also appeared on QVC to sell her cookbooks, has been featured on Bon Appetit podcasts, four of her desserts have graced the magazine cover and she has made personal appearances at Bon Appetit events around the country and represented the brand on HSN.
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Customers find the recipes good and inventive.
"...She has some inventive recipes, without getting too much into the rose and lavender territory. I also want to try the hard glaze recipe...." Read more
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Customers find the color quality of the book amazing. They also mention that every doughnut has a very good color picture.
"...It's also exceptionally nice that every doughnut has a very good color picture so that you know exactly what it looks like, although of course you..." Read more
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The book has symbols to guide you: classic, quick to make, fun to make with kids and extra fancy. Just again, know that unless the kids are old enough to handle cooking with hot oil, these definitely need adult supervision. There are good general instructions on ingredients, proofing yeast, the equipment, the time, the frying.
Interesting variations include mashed potato doughnuts Krispy Kreme Kopycat doughnuts and browned butter-brown sugar sour cream doughnuts.
There are pictures of the final product, but none of an instructional nature, which would be an asset. . These are products which do not have a long lifespan, both in freshness and staying around because usually anyone near will want to eat them. There are measurement equivalents and an index.
This is an interesting and specialized cookbook to add to your cookbook collection.

