BakeWise: The Hows and Whys of Successful Baking with Over by Shirley O. Corriher

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By Shirley O. Corriher

For years, nutrition editors and writers have stored CookWise right through their desktops. Now that spot they've been maintaining for BakeWise may be filled.

With her years of expertise from big-pot cooking for a hundred and forty teenage boys and her vintage French culinary education to her paintings as a examine biochemist at Vanderbilt college university of drugs, Shirley Corriher manages to place and jointly in particular and intriguing methods. She describes beneficial ideas, resembling brushing puff pastry with ice water—not simply disregarding the flour—making the puff pastry more uncomplicated to roll. the end result? better, lighter, and flakier pastry. and also you won't locate those recipes wherever else, now not even on the net. she will assist you make wet brownies; flaky pie crusts; shrink-proof excellent meringues that won't leak yet nonetheless reduce like a dream; vast, crisp cream puffs; notable French pastries; gentle génoise; and crusty, exceptionally flavorful, open-textured French breads, corresponding to baguettes and fougasses.

BakeWise doesn't have only a unmarried resource of data; Shirley loves studying the works of cooks and different sturdy chefs and stocks their info with you, too. She applies not just her services yet that of the numerous artisans she admires, similar to recognized French pastry cooks Gaston Lenôtre and Chef Roland Mesnier, the White condo govt pastry chef for twenty-five years; Bruce Healy, writer of gaining knowledge of the artwork of French Pastry; and Bonnie Wagner, Shirley's daughter-in-law's mom. Shirley additionally retrieves "lost arts" from specialists of the prior resembling Monroe Boston Strause, the pie grasp of Thirties the USA. For one dish, she can give you strategies from 3 or 4 diverse cooks plus her personal contact of science—"better baking via chemistry." She provides proof in regards to the correct temperature, the precise blending pace, and the best blending time for the completely so much solid egg foam, so that you can create a light-as-air génoise at any time when.

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Spread the filling on the dough, leaving a 1 1/2 -inch border. With moistened fingers, fold the uncovered dough up and over the filling to create pleats. Lightly press the pleats together. Dip a pastry brush into water, moisten the edges of the crust, and sprinkle with the granulated sugar. continued H O L I D AY B A K I N G / 37 / THANKSGIVING Rustic Dried Fruit Tart CRUST 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon salt 6 tablespoons frozen unsalted butter 2 tablespoons frozen vegetable shortening 4 tablespoons or more ice water continued 5.

5. To serve, unmold the cake, remove the parchment paper, and place the cake on a flat serving plate. Using a pastry brush, coat the sides of the cake and a 1-inch rim along the top with the warm marmalade, arranging any bits of peel along the rim. ) Press the almonds onto the sticky top rim. Using a fine sieve, lightly dust the powdered sugar evenly over the top. Serve warm or at room temperature. H O L I D AY B A K I N G / 59 / HANUKKAH This is one of the simplest and best coffee cakes my mother used to bake for the family on Sunday mornings.

Brush the tops and sides of the rugelach with milk and sprinkle with the granulated sugar. Bake until golden brown and lightly puffy, about 30 minutes. Let the cookies firm and cool slightly on the baking sheet before transferring them to a rack to cool completely. Repeat with the remaining 2 rounds of dough. Granulated sugar for sprinkling VA R I AT I O N Rugelach with Marmalade, Sage, and Pine Nuts, To make follow the recipe for the pastry, mixing 1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh sage leaves and 1 teaspoon grated orange zest into the blended butter and cream cheese mixture before adding the flour mixture.

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