Name: Bakewise: The Hows and Whys of Successful Baking with Over 200 Magnificent Recipes, Hardcover/Shirley O. Corriher
Brand: Scribner Book Company
Price: 277.99 RON
Availability: InStock

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Great day in the morning, BakeWise is outYou are holding the book that everyone has been waiting for. Sure enough, Shirley did not hold back--it's all here. Lively and fascinating, BakeWise reads like a mystery novel as we follow sleuth Shirley while she solves everything from why cakes and muffins can be dry to genoise deflation and why the cookie crumbles. With her years of experience from big-pot cooking for 140 teenage boys and her classic French culinary training to her work as a research biochemist at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Shirley manages to put two and two together in unique and exciting ways. Some information is straight out of Shirley's wildly connecting brain cells. She describes useful techniques, such as brushing puff pastry with ice water--not just brushing off the flour--making the puff pastry easier to roll. The result? Higher, lighter, and flakier pastry. And you won't find these recipes anywhere else, not even on the Internet. She can help you make moist cakes; flaky pie crusts; shrink-proof perfect meringues that won't leak but still cut like a dream; big, crisp cream puffs; amazing French pastries; light genoise; and crusty, incredibly flavorful, open-textured French breads, such as baguettes and fougasses. There is simply no one like Shirley Corriher. People everywhere recognize her from her TV appearances on the Food Network and ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live , with Snoop Dogg as her fry chef. Restaurant chefs and culinary students know her f