Baking and Pastry: Mastering the Art and Craft

by The Culinary Institute of America (CIA)

This insightful book presents 350 recipes, along with expert reviews of valuable techniques, for creating mouthwatering breads and desserts. The use of volume and metric measurements suit the needs of large operations, small bakeshops, home kitchens, and classrooms. More experienced bakers can find advanced tips about chocolate, confections, and wedding cakes, as well as the CIA's approach to plating and decorating desserts. Hundreds of full-color photographs introduce the baking ingredients, offer step-by-step guidance through important techniques, and feature finished products.

Genres: Cookbooks, Food, Cooking, Reference, Culinary, Nonfiction, Foodie

880 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 2004

Reviews

[Meryl · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book for baking and pastry fundamentals

I highly recommend this book for anyone dabbling in the professional world of pastries. Developed at the Culinary Institute of America, this book is a great resource which covers a wide range of topics: cookies and quick breads, yeasted breads, laminated pastries, classic cakes, mignardise, chocolate tempering, ice creams, and confections. This book is a must-have for anyone who works in a restaurant or bakery kitchen because it will have a basic recipe for anything you may want to make.

[MiMi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best baking book EVEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeR.

if u ever feel like falling for baking like it happened with me and you wish to learn more this one is indeed for you.

i love learning from scratch so this book was just what the doctor ordered.

this book now has become my baking guide....so keep calm i am the baker and your chocolate cake will be ready in five minutes ;)

[Audrey Grant · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best cookbooks I own and that is saying a lot since I own over two hundred and use them all!

[R.J. Gilmour · Rating 4 out of 5]

Designed as a textbook for the Culinary Institute of America the book is a massive tome at 1116 pages. However, the size ensures that it includes everything that one would want to learn about baking and pastry for a professional kitchen. There are a lot of step by step procedures and recipes to accompany the procedures.

[Dray · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a wonderfully instructive masterpiece book. It is geared to the professional baker as most recipes are in the 5-10 lbs of dough range (making 90+ rolls for example). So some serious calculations to bake at home. Nonetheless, the principles are the same and the book really goes into the scinece. Very worthwhile.

[Landon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good information in this book. Read this for two of my classes.

[Nancy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love baking and this a a must have book in a baker's kitchen shelf.

[محمود سعد الحمري · Rating 5 out of 5]

كتابة مراجعة (اختياري)

[Syahira · Rating 4 out of 5]

Baking and Pastry is one of the book that I read along side Professional Baking. Like Professional Baking, I read this for my culinary classes and it does help me understand some of the content that was included into my lectures. Similar to the other book, the textbook is appropriate for those who seek additional knowledge in the culinary arts. For beginners in culinary arts, this book provided a variety of subjects that might help in understanding the works that involved in baking. There are also additional chapters on confectioneries and cake decorating

However, being a chef is more than just reading from a book. You need to practice with the basics and any culinary text book is not enough for the work needed in the kitchen.

[Flea · Rating 2 out of 5]

pain to use

[Vanessa Opal · Rating 4 out of 5]

All the basics you need to know.

[Carole]

This is the textbook for one of the classes I am currently taking. It is a fascinating book.

[Omer Biaya]

i need get this book

[Sara · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was an excellent book for baking, I obviously have not bake all things in it but the basics it taught was amazing!!

Would recommend it to anyone who wants to start baking.

[Alissa]

you would think that i have already picked this up eh? not yet.