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Paperback The Bakers' Manual Book

ISBN: 047128467X

ISBN13: 9780471284673

The Bakers' Manual

Compiled by a veteran instructor at The Culinary Institute of America, this book's tested recipes have been fully updated and reorganized in a new, highly readable format. You'll find concise, authoritative coverage of the whole range of breads, cakes, and pies, puddings, and pastries--all the baked goods you will ever be called upon to make.

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Rated 5 stars
My go-to baking book

As someone who works in a professional pastry kitchen, I have dozens of pastry books. This is without doubt my favorite of them all and my go-to for most basic recipes. All the recipes are clearly laid out in cup measurements for 5-quart mixers and weight measurements for 20-quart mixers. The book covers yeast breads, laminated doughs, cakes, egg based components, pies, tarts and other fruit desserts, cookies, working with...

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All My Baking Questions Answered!

Excellent resource and a must-have reference even for the casual home baker. This book will prevent those baking failures and you'll even learn why things succeed! Contrary to the "Nice Try But it Fails" review, this book does indeed discuss the methods for measuring and weighing flour that the authors used right up front. I find it's important to read those chatty beginning chapters. In this case the authors wasted no words...

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Rated 5 stars
A MUST for any baking Enthusiast!

As a student currently enrolled in a Professional Baking and Pastry Program, I can say this book is a MUST. It provides information for both the recreational and professional baker.

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Every baker NEEDS this book.

I started a bakery/deli in 1993 using a professional baker and this book as my foundation. In time I also learned to use advice from my customers and from other pros. Still, the whole lot of the experts, save one, gave less useful information than did this classic by Joseph Amendola.Theories of dough fermentation and the like are of especial importance for any new baker. When something goes wrong, too, this book has a good...

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Rated 5 stars
A must have!

The Baker's Manual is a book that anyone who is serious about baking should have! It has all the foundational information that you could need and then some. If I could only have one book about baking, this would be my choice!!!

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