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Amazing book - amazing ideas and so thoroughly written I hope to add this to my collection - but for the past year I have been borrowing it for weeks on end from the library.
This is still my go to book for cookie recipes that I know will turn out
The snickerdoodle, ginger molasses, sugar cookies are excellent. Even after 10 years and many many cookbooks later - it is still used often
I owned this book for years - It was recommended to me 20 years ago and I hung on to it forever - carted it to every apartment and house I lived in but was always overwhelmed by the information. I made a rash decision one day to sell it - "knowing" I would never use it. This book appears on James Beard's Essential Bakers Book list - it is ESSENTIAL and I wish I had my copy back. Perhaps at the ripe old age of 50 - I have finally become "ready" to absorb it . . . . .
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marybeth, February 8, 2011
Amazing book - amazing ideas and so thoroughly written I hope to add this to my collection - but for the past year I have been borrowing it for weeks on end from the library.Rosie's Bakery Chocolate-Packed, Jam-Filled, Butter-Rich, No-Holds-Barred Cookie Book by Judy Rosenberg
marybeth, October 19, 2010
This is still my go to book for cookie recipes that I know will turn outThe snickerdoodle, ginger molasses, sugar cookies are excellent. Even after 10 years and many many cookbooks later - it is still used often
The Italian Baker by Carol Field
marybeth, May 18, 2010
I owned this book for years - It was recommended to me 20 years ago and I hung on to it forever - carted it to every apartment and house I lived in but was always overwhelmed by the information. I made a rash decision one day to sell it - "knowing" I would never use it. This book appears on James Beard's Essential Bakers Book list - it is ESSENTIAL and I wish I had my copy back. Perhaps at the ripe old age of 50 - I have finally become "ready" to absorb it . . . . .(0 of 1 readers found this comment helpful)