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The King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion: The Essential Cookie Cookbook
by King Arthur Flour
ISBN-10: 0881506591
ISBN-13: 9780881506594
ISBN-13: 9780881506594
Region: USA
Publisher: Countryman
Publication Date: November, 2004
Publishers Information
About The King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion: The Essential Cookie Cookbook
Publisher Web Link: http://www.countrymanpress.com/
Drawing on the same commitment to the home-baking community that has earned them hundreds of thousands of dedicated followers, the bakers at King Arthur Flour guide you through hundreds of recipes, revealing the secrets to making your own mouthwatering cookies for any occasion.
The bakers begin by singling out the “Nine Essential Cookies” and variations that reflect a variety of tastes, textures, and ingredients:
• brownies
• sugar cookies
• chocolate chip cookies
• shortbread
• oatmeal cookies
• peanut butter cookies
• molasses-ginger cookies
• biscotti
• decorated cookies
From whoopie pies to ladyfingers, it’s all here in one place. The King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion includes full chapters on drop cookies, roll-out cookies, shaped cookies, batter cookies, no-bake cookies, and bars and squares.
You’ll find complete instructions for making cookie icings, fillings, and dips. You’ll find a thorough overview of the essential ingredients of cookie baking, explaining the chemistry of flours and grains, leavens, sweeteners, fats, dairy products, flavorings, and the science of how these ingredients work together. You’ll also learn tips on substitutions and variations; measuring and weighing ingredients; even advice on high-altitude baking. Recipes are enhanced with sidebars providing hints, shortcuts, troubleshooting advice, and recipe lore. And each recipe is accompanied by a complete nutritional analysis. Illustrations throughout the book provide clear step-by-step instructions that take the mystery out of such baking terms as “creaming,” “soft-ball stage,” and “folding.” Finally, a comprehensive illustrated chapter describes the essential baking tools you’ll want to have on hand.
King Arthur Flour is the largest single educator of bakers in the world. Employee owned since 1996, the company conducts a yearly national baking class tour that has provided free baking classes to many thousands of bakers across the U.S. The company also publishes a newsletter of recipes and baking information, The Baking Sheet. The Baker’s Catalogue, a wholly owned subsidiary, sponsors an online baking forum, The Baking Circle, on its parent company’s Web site, www.kingarthurflour.com. The company’s 2003 release, The King Arthur Flour Baker’s Companion, was selected as one of the best cookbooks of the year by Food & Wine, People, and many other national publications. All the bakers at King Arthur Flour work from their 12-sided post-and-beam headquarters in Norwich, Vermont.
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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