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The Essential Baking Cookbook (Essential Cookbook) Hardcover – August, 2003

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The Essential Baking Cookbook offers hints and notes on unusual ingredients, while step-by-step photographs guide the reader through many tricky culinary techniques. Included is a comprehensive pictorial guide to essential equipment with detailed instructions on the best ways to use and maintain them. Preparation pages with step-by-step photographs and easy-to-follow instructions explain different methods that make this book perfect for bakers of all ages and abilities. Beautifully photographed glossaries show unusual ingredients and food varieties with their common and not-so-common names. Snippets of history related to the dishes add interest while colorful double-page features provide a wealth of information on buying, storing and preparing some of the more unusual ingredients. Over 500 full-color photographs are featured.

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Series: Essential Cookbook
Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Thunder Bay Press (CA) (August 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1592230024
ISBN-13: 978-1592230020
Product Dimensions: 11.4 x 8.7 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 3.3 pounds
Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,714,834 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1132 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Baking > Bread

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Best baking book ever!!

Bygoodon April 12, 2008

I love to bake breads, cakes, cookies, but most especially pastry and this book is wonderful for all of these. Not only does it have great recipes, but it also provides pictures of right and wrong results and hints as to how to fix it. Each section begins with basics and ten moves on to recipes that build on those basics. I've never had a bad recipe out of this book.

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Good book, but some apparent errors

ByAntonioon December 27, 2010

This is a reasonable baking cookbook that has fairly complete coverage of the types of slices, cakes, pies etc that are popular in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. The book's publisher is a UK / Australian publisher that has traditionally specialized in cookbooks. Not sure if the recipes will be as familiar to American audiences.

I've made a few of the recipes from this book, and they have usually turned out reasonably well, however I have also found at least one apparent error. For example the recipe for the Chocolate Swiss Roll has as ingredients for the cake part: 3 eggs,1/3 cup caster sugar, 1/4 cup plain flour, 2 tablespoons cocoa powder. However there is no raising agent, so the cake doesn't rise ! The other roll recipes specify self-raising flour, so I'm guessing that this one should have too !

Also although it might not matter for some recipes, the measurements in this book use 20ml Tablespoons (typical in Australia) as opposed to around 15ml Tablespoons which are usual in most other countries such as the US, Canada, UK, Japan, New Zealand etc.

I might revise my review after making some more recipes.

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Comprehensive Baking Book

ByMeg Gon July 26, 2010

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The Essential Baking Cookboook is exactly what it says. This book begins with a history of baking, then continues with a glossary of baking terms so that a newcomer to baking can understand what recipes are talking about.This necessary information is followed by a few pages of color photographs and a list of baking utensils ranging from the good old wooden spoon to specialty baking tins. The recipes cover many recipes from bread and savory pies to the fanciest of cakes. The recipes are easy to follow and use everyday ingredients.

This is the first cookbook I have seen that has What Went Wrong? sections.These show photographs of what the finished products should look like along with photographs of what the products look like when the baker has made a mistake somewhere. And, yes, the mistakes are identified and additional tips help both novice and experienced baker to improve their skills.

Photographs are excellent and just beg the reader to get going!

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great cakes

ByGraham Badrockon March 19, 2010

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I have found this book to be very good and easy to follow, each section has photos of how things should look as well as how they look if things go wrong very helpful if you are are not sure.
I have cooked serveral recipes so far with out a problem my favorite is the mandelines.
I am going to try some of the bread recipes next and I am sure they will be great!
My son and I are opening a cafe in Bright and will be using some of these reicpies the Orange and Poppy seed cake with cream cheese frosting will be one I am sure.

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Five Stars

ByAmazon Customeron May 11, 2016

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The best baking book ever 3rd time we bought it

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