The Everyday Baker: Essential Techniques and Recipes for Foolproof Baking: Recipes and Techniques for Foolproof Baking - Hardcover

Abigail Johnson Dodge

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1621138100 ISBN 13: 9781621138105

Publisher: Taunton Press Inc, 2015

Synopsis

More than a collection of recipes, The Everyday Baker is a comprehensive baking reference, featuring 200 step-by-step techniques that every home cook should master. In addition, The Everyday Baker provides 200 recipes that showcase sweet and savoury baked goods, with chapters on cookies, cakes, pies and tarts, flatbreads, pastries, breads and more, all featuring detailed instructions, visual cues for doneness and ingenious tips. As a veteran cookbook author and pastry chef, Abby takes home cooks by the hand, explaining techniques in her friendly, conversational tone, with 650 photos bringing the instructions to life. Throughout the book, practical, in-depth content is highlighted by finding devices that call attention to techniques needed for a recipe, thereby ensuring home cooks learn the fundamentals for successful baking. For each recipe, Abby provides the extras that make her a highly regarded baking expert: make-ahead tips, flavour and size variations, and 'baker's wisdom' gems that will help home cooks become more knowledgeable and confident. The Everyday Baker is packed with authoritative yet approachable information and will remain a staple on the counter as home cooks gain the skills they need to make delicious recipes.

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Review:

"In her tenth cookbook Abby Dodge makes you wish that you could bake every day. She's a pie and tart queen. A pastry prodigy. A cookie genius."

--Robin Doyon-Aitken "Faith Middleton Food Schmooze "

"The Everyday Baker is a masterpiece. Abby's voice domes through loud and clear. The recipes are so well-written, the tips are so detailed. I'm a professional baker, and I think it's one of the best books I own."

--Gail Dosik "One Tough Cookie "

"This made its way to the top of a substantial pile of 2015 baking books because Dodge knows how to write a complete recipe."

--The Washington Post

"The Everyday Baker is part culinary school, part trusted friend, and completely delicious. Abby shares her years of baking wisdom with such grace and ease that everyone from pastry chefs to first time bakers will successfully create fabulous pastries."

--Zoe Francois, pastry chef and cookbook author

"I have been a longtime Abby fan; her approach is solid in technique, her writing is simple, clear, and encouraging, and her talent is obvious."

--Dede Wilson, Bakepedia

"This book will teach you as you go, illustrating the why and how behind the techniques and recipes. It's a comprehensive baking book for anyone who likes to bake."

--The Coastal Table

"This tome dedicated to baking is one that we all need to own. Above average, unusual, and delicious recipes. I have been making Abby's recipes for years and there hasn't been a dud in the bunch. This book will be a workhorse in any baker's kitchen and especially mine."

--The Cookbook Junkies

"I love to cook but don't know how to bake. With Abby's recipes, problem solved!"

--Victoria Hagan, interior designer

"The Everyday Baker is a sensuous book, and therefore eminently successful. To be great, a cookbook needs to seduce you into the kitchen. The Everyday Baker beckons one powerful recipe after another."

--The Huffington Post

"Abby's amazing!"

--Dorie Greenspan, award-winning cookbook author

About the Author:

A former pastry chef, Abby Dodge is a widely respected baking expert as well as a popular food writer and instructor. She studied in Paris at La Varenne and is the author of seven cookbooks. Her recipes and articles have appeared in more than three dozen cookbooks, publications and websites. A contributing editor to Fine Cooking magazine, she's a regular guest on TV and radio and teaches cooking around the America.

About this edition

• Publisher: Taunton Press Inc
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1621138100
• ISBN 13: 9781621138105
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 512