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The King Arthur Flour Baker’s Companion: The All-Purpose Baking Cookbook
by King Arthur Flour
ISBN-10: 0881505811
ISBN-13: 9780881505818
ISBN-13: 9780881505818
Region: USA
Publisher: Countryman
Publication Date: September, 2003
Publishers Information
About The King Arthur Flour Baker’s Companion: The All-Purpose Baking Cookbook
Publisher Web Link: http://www.countrymanpress.com/
From Christmas cookies and pancakes to chocolate cake and sandwich bread, The King Arthur Flour Baker’s Companion will be there to guide home bakers every step of the way.
Every kitchen comes equipped with a fundamental, dependable cookbook classic such as Joy of Cooking or Better Homes & Gardens New Cookbook. Now bakers have a modern classic of their own. From leavening, mixing, proofing, and kneading, through shaping and baking, the experts at King Arthur Flour lead you through hundreds of easy and foolproof recipes.
With wisdom and humor they help you explore and master every area of baking—from tricky yeast breads and sourdoughs, to trendy flatbreads and crackers, to family favorites such as pancakes and waffles. They also present fried doughs, quick breads, batter breads, biscuits, quiches, cobblers and crisps, cookies, cakes, brownies, pies, tarts, and pastries. These more than 450 recipes are enhanced with sidebars that share baking secrets and provide clear, step-by-step instructions. Techniques are further explained with easy-to-follow sequences of illustrations from culinary illustrator Laura Hartman Maestro. Finally, each recipe is accompanied by a detailed nutritional analysis.
The King Arthur Flour Baker’s Companion is the definitive kitchen resource. It explains just about everything you want to know about baking. You’ll get a complete overview of all of the essential baking ingredients and how and why they behave as they do—flours, sweeteners, leavens, fats, and more. You’ll find information on substitutions and variations, as well as troubleshooting advice from the pros at King Arthur. You’ll also find an extensive photographic guide to all the tools of the trade—from mixing bowls to a Danish dough whisk.
Exhaustive in scope, authoritative in style, and offering clear, practical, and encouraging instruction, The King Arthur Flour Baker’s Companion is the one book you’ll turn to every time you bake. Like your set of measuring cups and favorite wooden spoon, it will become an essential kitchen resource. No kitchen in America should be without a copy.
King Arthur Flour is the largest single educator of bakers in the world. More than one million students have gone through King Arthur’s seminars, hands-on classes, and online courses. Recognized as the home baking authority by nationally recognized food writers, cookbook authors, chefs, food personalities, restaurant owners, and home bakers.
KingArthurFlour.com receives more than 8 million hits each month; more than 77,000 people participate in King Arthur’s online Baking Circle message boards; thousands of consumers subscribe to King Arthur Flour’s newsletter, The Baking Sheet. These recipes have been created by the many experienced bakers at King Arthur Flour in Norwich, Vermont, and are the final result of decades of development and adjustment. Every recipe has been thoughtfully created, then rigorously tested and retested in King Arthur Flour’s kitchens.
Author Information
About King Arthur Flour
Author Web Link: http://www.kingarthurflour.com/
Started in Boston in 1790 and now based in Norwich, Vermont, America’s oldest flour company has grown from a regional staple to a brand known nationwide not only for its high-quality flours, but for our passion in sharing the joy of baking. It’s grown from a small mail-order business with five employees in 1990, to the country’s premier baking resource today, with more than 180 employees; from a family-owned operation for five generations, to a 100 percent employee-owned business. King Arthur Flour offers more than 1,000 professional-grade baking tools and ingredients through its print catalogue; online at kingarthurflour.com/shop, and at kingarthurflour.com, and at The Baker’s Store in Norwich, Vermont. In addition, via its wide array of educational programs, King Arthur has become the largest educator of home bakers in the world.
Through our products, our publications and our educational programs, King Arthur Flour continues to strive toward its mission.
Our mission: We support and seek to expand all aspects of baking by being the highest quality product, information, and education resource for, and inspiration to, bakers worldwide. Our foundation is our good King Arthur flours, and our commitment is to the highest standards of excellence, value, and integrity in everything we do.
King Arthur Flour has published four cookbooks - King Arthur Flour Whole Grain Baking, nominated in 2007 for a James Beard Foundation Award; The King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion, nominated for an International Association of Culinary Professionals award in 2005; The King Arthur Flour Baker’s Companion, named the 2004 KitchenAid Cookbook of the Year by the James Beard Foundation; and The King Arthur Flour 200th Anniversary Cookbook - as well as The Baking Sheet, our award-winning, bi-monthly subscription baking newsletter. We offer educational opportunities for bakers of all levels through our Baking Education Center; around the country through our Traveling Baking Demos program; in middle schools through the Life Skills Bread Baking Program™; and at your convenience online. (http://www.kingarthurflour.com/)
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