Baking with Julia: Savor the Joys of Baking with America's Best Bakers

by Dorie Greenspan

Hardcover, 1996

Status

Available

Call number

641.815

Collection

Publication

William Morrow Cookbooks (1996), Edition: 1, 512 pages

Description

"Baking with Julia is not only a book full of glorious recipes but also one that continues Julia's teaching tradition. Here, basic techniques come alive and are made easily comprehensible in recipes that demonstrate the myriad ways of raising dough, glazing cakes, and decorating crusts. This is the resource you'll turn to again and again for all your baking needs. With Baking with Julia in your cookbook library, you can become a master baker." "With nearly two hundred recipes, and half as many pages of tantalizing full-color photographs, this incomparable kitchen companion goes far beyond what most cookbooks offer. More than fifty pages of illustrated reference sections define basic terms and techniques, and explain the hows and whys of batters and doughs to take you effortlessly through the essential techniques. If you've never made flaky pie crust, your first no-fail experience is at hand. If you've never baked bread, that most satisfying and sensual pleasure awaits the turn of a page. With recipes for breads, pastries, cookies, and cakes - from chocolate to cheesecake, from miniature gems to multi-tiered masterpieces - this cookbook is a total immersion experience in the wonder of home baking."--BOOK JACKET.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member wenestvedt
Food pr0n, through and through.

Still, I flip through it to remind me of the stuff I could be making -- sometimes I get inspired to bake (even if from from another book).
LibraryThing member Vercingetorix
These recipes are sophisticated, thorough, and beautifully conceived. A fairly large range of cultures are represented, and the level of difficulty ranges from intermediate to very advanced. Everything I have made has turned out very well. My favorites so far have been "Rustic Potato Loaves" and
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Challah. It also includes directions for making beautiful and pretty rarely found loaves such as epis and Couronnes.
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LibraryThing member msmalnick
Gorgeous book -- the french apple tart is an all-time favorite (for me to make and others to eat).
LibraryThing member auntieknickers
Based on the PBS series hosted by Julia Child and featuring recipes and instructions from many master bakers. Everything from lefse to wedding cake, and photographs too. Excellent.
LibraryThing member kblaas
Hands down my favorite baking cookbook ever. The pages for challah and the potato bread are wrinkled from use and dropped ingredients. I have almost never had a recipe go wrong unless I do something silly, like not reading the directions. This book walks you through all the necessary steps to
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making very good bread and sweets, and even gives you moral support. What other book would tell you not to worry and keep beating, it will turn out in a few minutes? If you are sick of store-bought or machine-made bread, get this book and some yeast, and go forth. I guarantee with a bit of practice and patience, you will be churning out lovely loaves in a week or so.
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LibraryThing member JetJet
Wonderful recipes, easy to follow directions.
LibraryThing member goet0095
I recently made the Semolina Bread recipe from this book--it was fabulous!!

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Language

Original language

English

Physical description

512 p.; 10.88 inches
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