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Baking and Pastry Mastering the Art and Craft
We found 8 Reddit comments about Baking and Pastry: Mastering the Art and Craft. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
Baking and Pastry: Mastering the Art and Craft, from the CIA. Packed full of tons of recipes, from standard plain dough recipes and sauces, to a chapter with full desserts made from the foundational components from other chapters. The recipes are scaled for very large batches though, so you’ll probably have to scale down (some have baker’s % though).
Ahhhh, my condolences, how tragic!
I'm something of a cookbook minimalist, and keep my personal collection pretty concise; I'm quick to give away books if they've been on my shelf too long without much use. I used to be a cookbook hoarder, but I don't have the space for it anymore, lol.
The cookbooks I have on the shelf rn are Season, The Palestinian Table, Arabesque, Afro-Vegan, Donabe, and several Japanese-language cookbooks.
For dessert-related things, I have Baking and Pastry: Mastering the Art and Craft, Chocolates and Confections: Formula, Theory, and Technique, SUQAR, and the Flavor Thesaurus.
Start with a textbook, like this one:
https://www.amazon.com/Baking-Pastry-Mastering-Art-Craft/dp/0470928654/
Of course, the primarily British products and British-named products won't be listed.
The CIA baking might be a good place to start. CIA Baking and Pastry
Textbook croissant.
I have a cookbook obsession, I have roughly 500 that are somewhat organized so I feel like I can be of great use here. I will break it down by type to make it easier.
Bibles
Bread
Caramels/Candys/Ice Cream
Jack of all trades
Pastry/Pies
Textbooks
I'm sure I am leaving out a bunch of great ones but if I had to suggest just 1 to anyone it would DEFINITELY be The Art of French Pastry. Best for somebody who has done basics already and looking to try a little more. Even as a professional baker I find myself coming back and just reading the little spots like how he burned himself on his caramel. Great, great book!
For what it's worth, this is the textbook almost all of my pastry arts courses are using: https://www.amazon.com/Baking-Pastry-Mastering-Art-Craft/dp/0470928654/
There's a new edition out this year: Baking and Pastry: Mastering the Art and Craft
It's by the Culinary Institute of America and has a lot of photos!