Baking with Julia : based on the PBS series hosted by Julia Child
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Baking with Julia : based on the PBS series hosted by Julia Child
Classmark: Mardon Collection
Creator(s): Greenspan, Dorie
Additional creator(s): Mardon, Gisele (1930-2015) (Former owner); Child, Julia (Other)
Publisher: William Morrow and Company
Publication city: New York
Date(s): [1996]
Language: English
Size and medium: xvii, 481 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/787283
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991021048475005181
Description
Includes index.
Baking basics -- Batters and doughs -- Breads. Daily loaves -- Artisanal breads -- Flatbreads -- Morning pastries and quick breads -- Cakes. Everyday delights -- Cakes for occasions -- A glorious wedding cake -- Cookies -- Pastries. Homey pies and tarts -- Grand pastries -- Savory pastries -- Sweet fillings and savory spreads.
"Baking with Julia is not only a book full of glorious recipes but also one that continues Julia's teaching tradition. Here, basic techniques come alive and are made easily comprehensible in recipes that demonstrate the myriad ways of raising dough, glazing cakes, and decorating crusts. This is the resource you'll turn to again and again for all your baking needs. With Baking with Julia in your cookbook library, you can become a master baker." "With nearly two hundred recipes, and half as many pages of tantalizing full-color photographs, this incomparable kitchen companion goes far beyond what most cookbooks offer. More than fifty pages of illustrated reference sections define basic terms and techniques, and explain the hows and whys of batters and doughs to take you effortlessly through the essential techniques. If you've never made flaky pie crust, your first no-fail experience is at hand. If you've never baked bread, that most satisfying and sensual pleasure awaits the turn of a page. With recipes for breads, pastries, cookies, and cakes - from chocolate to cheesecake, from miniature gems to multi-tiered masterpieces - this cookbook is a total immersion experience in the wonder of home baking."--Jacket.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Provenance
Leeds University Libraries copy at XXX: From the Gisele Mardon Collection, gifted in 2019.