Featuring more than 700 kitchen-tested recipes, 800 step-by-step photos, opinionated product ratings, and at-a-glance tutorials, "The America's Tes...
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Nov 10, 2010
Donna
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There's a great variety of recipes here, with a lot of helpful pictures. Measurements are given for both volume and weight. Like all the America's Test Kitchen stuff, there are helpful tips and warnings about common problems that people run into.
My biggest quibble is that the recipe instructions geared towards stand mixers. They give timings and mixer speeds for various dough recipes, but no similar guidance for bakers who will be doing the recipes without one. In a way this makes se More...
My biggest quibble is that the recipe instructions geared towards stand mixers. They give timings and mixer speeds for various dough recipes, but no similar guidance for bakers who will be doing the recipes without one. In a way this makes se More...
Feb 18, 2010
Megan
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Except perhaps for the peanut butter cookies (too crunchy), everything I've made out of this book is stellar. Yummiest Pecan Sandies of my life. Best Apricot Almond Muffins ever. Most scrumptious blackberry scones to date. I think I have this book (and my ma, for giving it to me) to thank for my new found love of jogging.
Dec 17, 2008
Tia
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My husband recently bought this for me and I love it. I have baking for years, and this year for all my holiday baking I have been using these recipes. Truly, I have yet to find a recipe that is lacking. I highly recommend this and all the America's Test Kitchen books. Fool proof!
Jan 04, 2012
Kathy
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This is a good book for the beginning baker and those who like to bake. the instructions are clear and the notes are helpful. If you own any of ATK's other books, you may see some repetition, but there wasn't enough of it to dissuade me from buying the book.
Apr 26, 2010
C
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The usual detail oriented style of the Test Kitchen folks. 3 ring binder style binding is handy, tabbed sections even handier. Great instruction, pictures, step by step illustration.
Looking forward to going through and trying a few things in here... learned a few things just perusing. A steal for 2$ used from the library.
Culinary Skill Level: perfect for beginner to moderate.
Looking forward to going through and trying a few things in here... learned a few things just perusing. A steal for 2$ used from the library.
Culinary Skill Level: perfect for beginner to moderate.
Jun 05, 2011
Liz
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Why do I bother getting these from the library, when I inevitably end up bookmarking a third of the recipes and wanting to buy the book? Oh, America's Test Kitchen, how you do tempt me ...
Apr 28, 2011
I love this cookbook!!! The layer cakes are my favorite (just made the lemon layer cake for Easter), but there are lots of yummy recipes in every section.
Jul 15, 2009
Camille
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Awesome! Baking is my favorite type of cooking and this book gave me some great pointers. Once again, lots of side notes explaining the science behind baking...which is even more precise than in stove top cooking.
The recipes I've made have turned out beautifully and were delicious. I like that they are for small batches and have detailed instructions with plenty of step by step pictures.
If you like to bake, or want to learn to bake, this is a great book. And the measurem More...
The recipes I've made have turned out beautifully and were delicious. I like that they are for small batches and have detailed instructions with plenty of step by step pictures.
If you like to bake, or want to learn to bake, this is a great book. And the measurem More...
Mar 03, 2010
Lisita
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I'm a baker at heart and I can't live without this book. Fun to sit and read through. Wonderful tips and recipes!!
Oct 19, 2011
David
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This is another must-have for every home. My wife makes lots of great baked goods from this book.
Jan 16, 2010
Gina
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In the past couple of days I have made the Spice Cake and the Zucchini Bread...delicious!
Oct 16, 2008
Elizabeth
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Fully illustrated and tabbed, this cookbook hearkens back to the original Betty Crocker cookbook, only resplendent with color photos throughout and updated to include newfangled accessories like food processors and microwaves. This book covers all the homey basics, from biscuits to baklava, flatbread to phyllo, sourdough to souffle. Indeed, just as its
Eisehower-administration ancestor, the Test Kitchen cookbook includes charts of measurements and substitutions, plus an equipment guide o More...
Eisehower-administration ancestor, the Test Kitchen cookbook includes charts of measurements and substitutions, plus an equipment guide o More...
Apr 03, 2009
I would like to make everything in this book starting on page 1. I hope the people at work are hungry!
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