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Baking with Julia

Julia Child / Hardcover / 481 pages / 1996

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. $33.99



Holiday Baking

Jeanne T. Kelley / Hardcover / 108 pages / 1999

With an international collection of kitchen-tested recipes from noted food authority Jeanne Thiel Kelley - each one shown in a full-color photograph - this beautiful, practical book offers a wealth of information and inspiration, even for cooks who have never baked before. All the basics are covered - from equipment to making cakes and breads, from working with chocolate and egg whites to decorating. And an illustrated glossary provides a quick, convenient reference for essential terms. $12.99



The Joy of Cooking:Appetizers, Desserts & Baked Goods

Irma S. Rombauer / Mass Market Paperback / 688 pages / 1998

These revised and enlarged editions are available for the first time ever in mass-market editions, the Joy of Cooking Vol 1: Main Course Dishes and Joy of Cooking Vol 2: Appetizers, Desserts, and Baked Goods feature hundreds of new recipes and cooking tips as well as enduring favorites. For the beginning cook to the seasoned chef, Joy of Cooking shows how to present food correctly and charmingly, from the simplest to the most formal service. $6.49



Best of Irish Breads & Baking, The

Georgina Campbell / Paperback / 144 pages / 1997

The Best of Irish Breads & Baking, seasoned with luscious color photographs, is a must for anyone who yearns for the irresistible aroma of home cooking. An invaluable source book for professional and novice bakers alike, it gathers together the cream of both traditional and modern recipes -- from well-loved old favorites such as Brown Soda Bread and Traditional Spicy Fruit Scones to more unusual temptations such as Ballylickey Yummy Cake, Flower Crepes with Summer Berry Filling and Barbara's Guinness "Yeast" Bread. A fascinating history of the Irish breadmaking tradition, a helpful guide to the storage and use of various ingredients, and a special section on baking for Christmas and other festive occasions are also included. $13.49



Layer Cakes & Sheet Cakes (American Baking Classics Series)

Lisa Yockelson / Hardcover / 128 pages / 1996

The only cookbook that focuses exclusively on layer and sheet cakes, the fourth book in the American Baking Classics Series offers 40 delicious and detailed recipes for these old-time favorites. Distinctively American, tall layer cakes and serve-from-the-pan sheet cakes are festive treats often baked for family gatherings, birthdays, community suppers, and school or charity bake sales. Layer Cakes and Sheet Cakes features these one-,two-, and three-layer wonders that serve up light and downy-textured cakes capped with tasty frostings, icings, and glazes. Sure to please every time, the cake recipes include Banana Cake, Mint Chocolate Chip Cake, Wellesley Fudge Cake, Spiced Pumpkin Cake, Apple Cake with Walnuts and Raisins, and Blueberry and Spice Cake; and the frostings and icings include: Fluffy White Frosting, full of Chocolate Frosting, Creamy Coffee Frosting, Coconut-Pecan Frosting, and Cream Cheese Frosting. Along with these recipes, Lisa Yockelson, author of the three previous books in the series, also provides introductory material and notes on ingredients and equipment. $12.99



Practical Baking

William J. Sultan / Hardcover / 832 pages / 1989

Practical Baking covers the entire field of practical bakery foods production and pastry making, bringing students up to speed on the latest bakery developments, and emphasizing the production of international yeast-raised bakery products and new practices in speed-up production. $74.99



The Old West Baking Book

Lon Walters / Paperback Spiral-Bound / 184 pages / 1996

How did our ancestors bake without fresh ingredients or the thermometers over an open flame? Recipes have been updated and kitchen tested, including sourdough starters, cobblers, cakes, puddings, biscuits, and bread. Historical vignettes tell how chuck wagon chefs, ranch house cooks, and Native Americans did so much with so little. 13 color photos, 13 b&w photos; index. $12.99



Classic 1000 Cakes & Bakes

Wendy Hobson / Paperback / 384 pages / 1998

Even in our time-pressured lives, cooks still love making cakes and breads for special occasions, but and as a everyday source of healthy pleasure. This book features everything from children's treats through quick plain cakes to exotic and unusual international recipes. Plus, there's a whole range of bread recipes from basic loaves to malt and fancy, sweet, savory, and grain creations. $8.49



1001 Low-Fat Desserts

Sue Spitler / Paperback / 756 pages / 1999

Easy-to-make recipes for dreamy frosted cakes, deep-dish pies, tangy tarts and heavenly cream puffs--plus the details on convenience desserts and recipes made with artificial sweeteners. $16.99



Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream & Dessert Book

Ben Cohen / Paperback / 128 pages / 1987

Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream & Dessert Book offers fans more than 90 recipes that are easy to make with even an unsophisticated ice-cream maker. The book is spiced with bright, quirky illustrations in full color. $8.49



Aunt Bee's Delightful Desserts

Ken Beck / Spiral / 276 pages / 1996

If The Andy Griffith Show's Aunt Bee is not wringing her handkerchief in worry over some injustice, she's out back in the kitchen whipping up something tasty to eat. And the most popular of her dishes are her desserts. Filled with mroe than 250 recipes, dialogue from the show, photos and trivia, this cookbook will provide good food and good fun for family, friends and fans. $12.99



Desserts from an Herb Garden

Hardcover / 141 pages / 1999

Professional baker, food writer, and cooking instructor Sharon Barrett loves her garden almost as much as her kitchen. She brings the two together in this fresh and inspired cookbook, which collects recipes for desserts made with garden herbs. These are delicious, beautiful desserts that will delight bakers and gardeners (though you needn't grow the herbs yourself), and bring something truly new to the cook's table. Because of its unique subject and excellent quality, this book will stand out on the cookbook shelves. Ranging from simple to sophisticated, the recipes include Lemon-Rosemary Cream Cake -- Chocolate Mint Biscotti -- Berry Thyme Cobbler -- Lemon Blueberry Sorbet -- Chocolate Basil Truffle Rounds -- Apricot-Savory Cookie Cups -- and many more. This dazzling collection by a smart, successful young baker will bring renewed joy to those who love to bake. $21.49

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