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Fine French desserts : essential recipes and techniques / Vincent Boué, Hubert Delorme, Didier Stéphan; photographs by Clay McLachlan.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: Paris : Flammarion, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 480 pages : colour illustrations, colour portraits ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9782080201577 (hbk.)
  • 2080201573 (hbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 641.86 BOU
Contents:
Techniques: Doughs and batters -- Sponges, bases, and petits fours -- Creams, mousses, and dessert fillings -- Icings, sauces, and cake and plate decorations -- Confectionery, jams, and candy decorations -- Working with chocolate -- Iced desserts -- Cooking techniques -- Practical guide -- Recipes: Hot desserts -- Cold desserts -- Layered desserts -- Classic pastries -- Loaf cakes and cookies -- Tarts -- Iced desserts.
Summary: This bible of dessert recipes and techniques combines the finely honed skills of master pastry chefs with interactive videos and step-by-step photographs to ensure success at home. This richly illustrated volume details 260 step-by-step recipes with in-depth explanations for kitchen novices that cover all basic techniques and desserts and are grouped by category: hot or cold desserts, entremets, classic pastries, cakes, tarts, and frozen desserts. Expert chefs provide baking tips that will assure success with foolproof dough, creams and mousses, chocolate and candy, sauces, and frozen desserts. Classic and contemporary recipes feature crème brûlée, Black Forest cake, clafoutis, lemon meringue pie, profiteroles, frozen raspberry soufflé, Opéra, tarte tatin, crêpes Suzette, macaroons, gingerbread, strawberry-cherry gazpacho, mango-pineapple carpaccio, fruit taboulé, Christmas log, and sugar decorations. Practical references include visual lexicons of recommended kitchen equipment and common ingredients; decorative piping models; conversion tables; a glossary; descriptions of regional French specialties and fifteen classic French desserts; and an index of recipes and main ingredients. Each recipe is rated for complexity so the home chef can gradually expand his or her baking ability through experience. More than 600 photographs and twenty downloadable videos of complex techniques enhance the learning experience in this essential guide for novice and established cooks alike.-- Publisher\'s description.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This bible of dessert recipes and techniques combines the finely honed skills of master pastry chefs with interactive videos and step-by-step photographs to ensure success at home. This richly illustrated volume details 260 step-by-step recipes with in-depth explanations for kitchen novices that cover all basic techniques and desserts and are grouped by category: hot or cold desserts, entremets, classic pastries, cakes, tarts, and frozen desserts. Expert chefs provide baking tips that will assure success with foolproof dough, creams and mousses, chocolate and candy, sauces, and frozen desserts. Classic and contemporary recipes feature crème brûlée, Black Forest cake, clafoutis, lemon meringue pie, profiteroles, frozen raspberry soufflé, Opéra, tarte tatin, crêpes Suzette, macaroons, gingerbread, strawberry-cherry gazpacho, mango-pineapple carpaccio, fruit taboulé, Christmas log, and sugar decorations. Practical references include visual lexicons of recommended kitchen equipment and common ingredients; decorative piping models; conversion tables; a glossary; descriptions of regional French specialties and fifteen classic French desserts; and an index of recipes and main ingredients. Each recipe is rated for complexity so the home chef can gradually expand his or her baking ability through experience. More than 600 photographs and twenty downloadable videos of complex techniques enhance the learning experience in this essential guide for novice and established cooks alike.

Translated from the French by Carmella Moreau

Includes index.

Techniques: Doughs and batters -- Sponges, bases, and petits fours -- Creams, mousses, and dessert fillings -- Icings, sauces, and cake and plate decorations -- Confectionery, jams, and candy decorations -- Working with chocolate -- Iced desserts -- Cooking techniques -- Practical guide -- Recipes: Hot desserts -- Cold desserts -- Layered desserts -- Classic pastries -- Loaf cakes and cookies -- Tarts -- Iced desserts.

This bible of dessert recipes and techniques combines the finely honed skills of master pastry chefs with interactive videos and step-by-step photographs to ensure success at home. This richly illustrated volume details 260 step-by-step recipes with in-depth explanations for kitchen novices that cover all basic techniques and desserts and are grouped by category: hot or cold desserts, entremets, classic pastries, cakes, tarts, and frozen desserts. Expert chefs provide baking tips that will assure success with foolproof dough, creams and mousses, chocolate and candy, sauces, and frozen desserts. Classic and contemporary recipes feature crème brûlée, Black Forest cake, clafoutis, lemon meringue pie, profiteroles, frozen raspberry soufflé, Opéra, tarte tatin, crêpes Suzette, macaroons, gingerbread, strawberry-cherry gazpacho, mango-pineapple carpaccio, fruit taboulé, Christmas log, and sugar decorations. Practical references include visual lexicons of recommended kitchen equipment and common ingredients; decorative piping models; conversion tables; a glossary; descriptions of regional French specialties and fifteen classic French desserts; and an index of recipes and main ingredients. Each recipe is rated for complexity so the home chef can gradually expand his or her baking ability through experience. More than 600 photographs and twenty downloadable videos of complex techniques enhance the learning experience in this essential guide for novice and established cooks alike.-- Publisher\'s description.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Hubert Delorme and Vincent Boué contributed to the award-winning French Cooking (Flammarion, 2010) and teach culinary techniques at catering schools. Didier Stéphan earned the prestigious title Meilleur Ouvrier de France and teaches cooking classes internationally.

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