Synopses & Reviews
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Baking by Flavor begins with an extraordinary exhortation to maximize flavor and follows through with an extravagant collection of carefully crafted and precisely detailed recipes to remind us that what matters most is the architecture of taste."
—Bruce Healy, author, The French Cookie Book and The Art of the Cake
Flavor is the very essence of fine baking, the source of wonderful tastes, textures, and aromas that delight the senses. In the award-winning Baking by Flavor, Lisa Yockelson shares exciting new ideas for building flavor in baked goods that can make virtually any recipe burst with new vigor and freshness.
Chapter by chapter, Baking by Flavor reveals techniques for creating luscious sweets in eighteen flavors-including chocolate, vanilla, lemon, almond, and buttercrunch. These techniques can be used to add depth and definition to all desserts, both classic and contemporary.
The book features 260 carefully created recipes, which include many inspiring ideas for bringing new life to favorite recipes. See how a pound cake springs to life when sugar is scented with vanilla, butter is creamed with vanilla bean scrapings, and egg yolks are beaten with a double-strength vanilla extract. Discover how dark chocolate brownies become richly sensuous when chopped nuts, lightly coated with cocoa powder and confectioners' sugar, are added to a creamy batter. From Cocoa-Chocolate Chip Pillows and Buttercrunch Melt-a-Ways to Apricot Oatmeal Breakfast Scones and Spice Ripple Keeping Cake, each delectable dessert sings with flavor.
Throughout, Yockelson's clearly written, easy-to-follow instructions make this book a joy to read and to use in the kitchen, while dozens of photographs beautifully illustrate select ingredients, equipment, and finished presentations.
With a host of exciting new ways to make flavor-rich cakes, cookies, muffins, tea breads, scones, sweet rolls, and more, Baking by Flavor will forever revolutionize every cook's approach to baking-with impressive results.
Review
“…an inspirational cook book full of written content Baking by Flavor will revolutionise every cooks approach to baking…”(Cake Craft & Decoration, July 2003)
Synopsis
Lisa Yockelson's classic guide to baking—finally in paperback Flavor is the essence of fine baking, the source of wonderful tastes and aromas that tempt the palate and delight the senses. In Baking by Flavor, Lisa Yockelson shares flavor-boosting secrets that can make virtually any recipe burst with new vigor and freshness. She reveals concepts and techniques for using 18 basic ingredients, including chocolate, vanilla, apricot, and lemon—in order to stack flavors layer by delicious layer.
Home bakers will learn to bring excite to old classics as the author enlivens a dormant pound cake by scenting its sugar with vanilla, creams the butter with vanilla scrapings, and beats egg yolks with a double-strength vanilla extract. Chocolate brownies become richly sensuous with the addition of chopped nuts coated with cocoa powder and confectioner's sugar.
- Includes 260 recipes that will inspire home bakers to bring old favorites into new delights
- Beautifully illustrated with 118 color photographs
- Presents recipes in clearly written, easy-to-follow instructions that are accessible for cooks of every level
For home bakers who are tired of the same-old same-old, Baking by Flavor offers new ways to bring excitement to the every day.
Synopsis
"An astonishing compilation of confectionery information, inspiration, and delectation."
—Marcel Desaulniers, Chef and Owner of The Trellis, Williamsburg, Virginia, and author of Death by Chocolate
"A must have for anyone who loves to bake. Lisa Yockelson celebrates all of my favorite flavors ... I'm in baker's heaven!"
—David Lebovitz, author of Room for Dessert
"Lisa Yockelson is an artist, transforming old-fashioned favorites to reach new levels of taste intensity."
—Susan Purdy, author of Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too, The Perfect Cake, and The Perfect Pie
"Baking by Flavor takes us in a new direction by spotlighting not only the ingredient itself, but the essence of that ingredient. It is destined to be a classic."
—Flo Braker, author of The Simple Art of Perfect Baking and Sweet Miniatures
"A must for your culinary library. Lisa Yockelson's recipes hit just the right buttons–they are creative, appetizing, and approachable."
—Carole Walter, author of Great Cakes and Great Pies and Tarts
About the Author
A graduate of the London Cordon Bleu, Lisa Yockelson is a cookbook author whose articles, essays, and recipes have appeared in national publications such as the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, and Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture. As a baking journalist and recipe developer who concentrates on classic and contemporary American as well as European regional baking specialties, Lisa has spent many professional years establishing methods and techniques for flavor-building and texture-polishing baked goods—two compelling areas that have become a hallmark of her research and form the groundwork for this book as well as for ChocolateChocolate, both IACP award—winners. Baking Style: Art, Craft, Recipes, her latest and most personal baking cookbook, combines the genre of the culinary essay with recipes, their corresponding methods, and illustrative images, revealing the author's uniquely intimate expression of the baking process. Join Lisa at her website and blog, www.bakingstylediary.com, where bakers of all stripes can read about new cookbooks, baking equipment and recipes, ask questions, and discover new recipes and essays.
Table of Contents
Foreword.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
PART I: THE ART OF BAKING BY FLAVOR.
1. The Way to Bake by Flavor.
2. An Inventory of Baking Equipment.
3. Creating a Baking Pantry.
4. Craft and Technique.
PART II: THE FLAVORS.
5. Almond.
6. Apricot.
7. Banana.
8. Blueberry.
9. Butter.
10. Buttercrunch.
11. Caramel and Butterscotch.
12. Chocolate.
13. Cinnamon.
14. Coconut.
15. Coffee and Mocha.
16. Ginger.
17. Lemon.
18. Peanut and Peanut Butter.
19. Rum.
20. Spice.
21. Sweet Cheese.
22. Vanilla.
23. About Freezing Baked Goods.
Selected Sources for Equipment and Supplies.
Bibliography.
Index.