BakeWise: The Hows and Whys of Successful Baking with Over 200 Magnificent Recipes @ richardeward.com

BakeWise: The Hows and Whys of Successful Baking with Over 200 Magnificent Recipes
by Shirley O. Corriher
from Scribner

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Gail
  Great gift. Got this for Christmas and I love it. I always wanted to know what a particular ingredient did and this book answers those questions. I've baked for years but didn't fully understand some of the "why's" certain things were done.

• A page-turner! Couldn't put it down!
  I got this book for Christmas and spent all New Year's Day reading it. I have never sat and just read a cookbook before. Then I went out, spent a small fortune on a counter-top mixer, and successfully made brioche on the first try. I also made Shirley's biscuit recipe, which was very tasty, though more like a quick bread than what I think of as biscuits. However, it was much better than my previous unguided (and misguided!) efforts, which I now realize suffered from "hard" flour and insufficient moisture.... more info

• Delightful to read, difficult to use
  The text is lots of fun, but the book is very confusingly organized. "Bad" recipes--ones Corriher included as teaching points--should have been designed to make it clear we are meant to learn from them, not try them. The various fonts aren't different enough to make it clear why each is being used. There aren't enough subheads, and the subsections within each recipe's explanation don't seem to have put into any particular order. You feel that Corriher starts to explain one technique, which then leads to... more info

• Know why your baking has gone wrong, and how to fix it!
  The author of Bakewise, Shirley Corriher, is a food scientist probably best known to foodies for her previous book, Cookwise: The Secrets of Cooking Revealed, and her guest appearances on the Food Network show Good Eats with Alton Brown. I have read in other sources that Cookwise is considered a standard text in culinary schools. Cookwise is a combination food science book and cookbook covering nearly the entire range of cooking, and baking was covered in one chapter of that book. Bakewise, however, expands... more info

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