The King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion: The All-Purpose Baking Cookbook

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The trusted companion of scores of home bakers is finally available in
paperback!Originally Published ten years ago – and shortly thereafter honored
as the James Beard Foundation’s Cookbook of the Year (2003) – this cookbook is
today every bit as relevant as it was then. And now the modern classic is in
easy to use Flexibound Paperback, with its hundreds of easy and foolproof
recipes, from yeast breads and sourdoughs to trendy flatbreads and crackers to
family favorites such as pancakes and waffles. Leading you through the steps
of leavening, mixing, proofing, and kneading through shaping and baking, the
experts at King Arthur Flour also include their best fried doughs, quick
breads, batter breads, biscuits, quiches, cobblers and crisps, cookies, cakes,
brownies, pies, tarts, and pastries.For more than 200 years King Arthur Flour
has been in the business of making the highest quality key ingredient in all
of baking: flour. They’ve done decades of experimentation and research in
their famous test kitchens on how the various ingredients in baked goods
behave and why. The Baker’s Companion, a kind of culmination of generations of
loving work, brings you more than 350 recipes that teach you which ingredients
work together as well as which don’t and why. It is this knowledge that will
allow you to unleash your own creativity and to experiment in the
kitchen.You’ll get a complete overview of ingredients in chapters on flours,
sweeteners, leaveners, fats, and more. You’ll find information on
substitutions and variations, as well as troubleshooting advice from pros at
King Arthur Four. Two 8 Page Color Inserts. Illustrations throughout Read more

Features:

Product Details:

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Countryman Press; 1st edition (October 15, 2012)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Flexibound ‏ : ‎ 656 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 158157178X
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 83
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.98 pounds
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 1.9 x 10.2 inches
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