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King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion: The Essential Cookie Cookbook

King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion: The Essential Cookie Cookbook

by KingArthur (Author)

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    Hardcover 2004

    $27.85
Synopsis

The bakers begin by singling out the Nine Essential Cookies and variations that reflect a variety of tastes, textures, and ingredients:

  • brownies
  • sugar cookies
  • chocolate chip cookies
  • shortbread
  • oatmeal cookies
  • peanut butter cookies
  • molasses-ginger cookies
  • biscotti
  • decorated cookies here in one place.

The King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion includes full chapters on drop cookies, roll-out cookies, shaped cookies, batter cookies, no-bake cookies, and bars and find a thorough overview of the essential ingredients of cookie baking, explaining the chemistry of flours and grains, leavens, sweeteners, fats, dairy products, flavorings, and the science of how these ingredients work and variations; measuring and weighing ingredients; even advice on high-altitude baking. Recipes are enhanced with sidebars providing hints, shortcuts, troubleshooting advice, and recipe lore. And each recipe is accompanied by a complete nutritional analysis. Illustrations throughout the book provide clear step-by-step instructions that take the mystery out of such baking terms as creaming, soft-ball stage, and folding. Finally, a comprehensive illustrated chapter describes the essential line black & white illustrations.

$27.85

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 536
 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
Published: 02 Nov 2004
ISBN 10: 0881506591
ISBN 13: 9780881506594

Media Reviews
[...] The King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion offers 400-plus recipes for almost every cookie under the sun--from traditional favorites like oatmeal and chocolate chip cookies (13 recipes including the soft and crisp kinds, plus 11 variations, such a Orange-Pistachio Milk Chocolate Chippers); to global treats like shortbread, tuiles, springerle, and biscotti; to all kinds of bars and soft bites such as brownies, Whoopie Pies, and Hot and Sweet Ginger Squares.

The Cookie Companion is in the King Arthur tradition, which means that tips, pointers, lore, and other compelling information. -- Amazon.com
The King Arthur Flour Company, the largest educator of bakers in the world, has provided a thorough how-to on cookies that will appeal to beginners and advanced bakers alike. -- Publishers Weekly
Author Bio
King Arthur Flour is the largest single educator of bakers in the world. Employee owned since 1996, the company conducts a yearly national baking class tour that has provided free baking classes to many thousands of bakers across the U.S. The company also publishes The Baking Sheet, a newsletter of recipes and baking information. The Baker's Catalogue, a wholly owned subsidiary, sponsors an online baking forum, The Baking Circle, on its parent company's Web site. The company's 2003 release, The King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion, was selected as one of the best cookbooks of the year by Food & Wine, People, and many other national publications. Other books by King Arthur Flour include The Original King Arthur Flour Cookbook, The King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion, and King Arthur Flour Whole Grain Baking. All the bakers at King Arthur Flour work from their 12-sided post-and-beam headquarters in Norwich , Vermont.