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Baking and pastry : mastering the art and craft / the Culinary Institute of America.

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Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., c2016.

9780470928653 :

xx, 1116 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

The professional baker and pastry chef. Career opportunities for baking and pastry professionals -- Ingredient identification -- Equipment identification -- Advanced baking principles -- Food and kitchen safety -- Baking formulas and bakers' percentages -- Yeast-raised breads and rolls. Yeast-raised breads and rolls -- Advanced yeast breads and rolls -- Baking building blocks. Pastry doughs and batters -- Quick breads and cakes -- Cookies -- Custards, creams, mousses, and soufflés -- Icings, glazes, and sauces -- Frozen desserts -- Assembling and finishing. Pies, tarts, and fruit desserts -- Filled and assembled cakes and tortes -- Breakfast pastries -- Individual pastries -- Savory baking -- Plated desserts -- Chocolates and confections -- Décor -- Wedding and specialty cakes -- Appendix A. Elemental recipes -- Appendix B. Décor templates -- Appendix C. Conversions, equivalents, and calculations -- Appendix D. Readings and resources.

The leading learning tool for all levels of baking and pastry ability, newly illustrated and updated. Praised by top pastry chefs and bakers as "an indispensable guide" and "the ultimate baking and pastry reference," the latest edition of Baking and Pastry from The Culinary Institute of America improves upon the last with more than 300 new recipes, photographs, and illustrations, and completely revised and up-to-date information on creating spectacular breads and desserts. Covering the full range of the baking and pastry arts and widely used by professionals and readers who want to bake like professionals, this book offers detailed, accessible instructions on the techniques for everything from yeast breads, pastry doughs, quick breads, breakfast pastries, and savory items to cookies, pies, cakes, frozen desserts, custards, souffles, and chocolates. In addition, this revised edition features new information on sustainability and seasonality along with new material on plated desserts, special-occasion cakes, wedding cakes, decor techniques, savory and breakfast pastries, and volume production, making it the most comprehensive baking and pastry manual on the market. Named "Best Book: Professional Kitchen" at the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) Cookbook Awards. -- Established by its first two editions as a lifelong kitchen reference for professional pastry chefs. -- Includes more than 900 recipes and 645 color photographs and illustrations.

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