Description:
Here is the definitive dessert cookbook for the American home cook. Christopher Kimball reviews equipment from mixers to rolling pins and discusses which are the best ingredients regarding types of flour, sugar, baking chocolate and more. He explains basic techniques like beating and folding in egg whites, working with pie dough, and folding flour into batters. The recipes include layer cakes, pies, tarts, cookies, brownies, puddings, mousses, ice cream, sorbets, fruit desserts, sauces and frostings. In addition, Kimball offers a section on favorite restaurant desserts from around the country that can also be made at home. Every recipe has been tested, retested and revised from scratch to ensure that these are truly the ultimate and simplest versions. Christopher Kimball will have his own cooking show on PBS beginning in Fall 2000.
