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Best Cookie Baking

Betty Crocker's Cooky Book
Here's the classic treasury of cookie baking that so many people grew up with: the beloved 1963 edition of Betty Crocker's Cooky Book, now in a brand-new, authentic facsimile of the original book. If you grew up baking with Betty Crocker, then you probably had this book, filled with all your favorites-from Chewy Molasses Cookies to Chocolate Crinkles to Toffee Squares and many more! Turn to Betty Crocker's Cooky Book to find: * An authentic facsimile of the classic 1963 edition packed with all your favorite cookie recipes. * Over 450 recipes, dozens of nostalgic color photographs and charming how-to sketches. * Scrumptious recipes for Holiday Cookies (dozens of Christmas specialties), Family Favorites (for lunchtime, snacktime, anytime), Company Best Cookies (fancy enough for company) and much more.
Reviews
"I LOVE the peanut butter cookie recipe."
"This is a great cookbook which has really stood the test of time."
"SO many lost recipes in here!"
"Cute cute cute vintage cookie book with all the old favorites."
"This is a pretty comprehensive collection of classic cookie recipes--they even have Danish and German cookie recipes thrown in there. I was most thrilled to find several cookie recipes I can use with my cookie press."
"Biggest downside: The binding makes it hard to turn the pages because it is bound so tightly."
"The peanut butter cookies and the Snickerdoodles were my kids very favorite and they are all grown and have families of their own now, but those unforgettable recipes continue on."
"I made sure all the cookies were included before we got rid of the batter splattered, page splitting, old copy."
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Mary Berry's Baking Bible: Over 250 Classic Recipes
Full-color photographs and illustrations that detail trickier steps are accompanied by easy-to-follow instructions and handy tips, making this an ideal resource for kitchen novices and more experienced cooks alike. Mary Berry is the author of more than 30 cookbooks, including Cook Now, Eat Later ; Mary Berry’s Complete Cookbook ; Mary Berry's Stress-Free Kitchen ; Mary Berry’s Ultimate Cake Book ; and Real Food—Fast .
Reviews
"Here is a list of the recipes included in this book (from Sooz on Amazon UK site)."
"Wonderful recipes, but a bit of a challenge from the US side of the pond."
"Careful of product substitutions like british icing sugar - it is not the same as confectionare sugar, has no corn starch or clumping agents."
"Great recipes, great tips!"
"Perfect for my Grand daughter - who loves baking and Mary Berry !"
"Exactly what I wanted."
"Present arrived on time while recipient was overseas."
"Great service - love this book!"
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Sally's Cookie Addiction: Irresistible Cookies, Cookie Bars, Shortbread, and More from the Creator of Sally's Baking Addiction
Featuring a mouthwatering selection of cookies , cookie bars , cookie dough dips , slice-and-bakes , no-bakes , and more, Sally's Cookie Addiction features dozens of exciting flavors, including chocolate, butterscotch, peanut butter, sugar, coconut, lemon, s’more, and oatmeal, oh my! Complete with tips on how to bake the perfect cookie and gorgeous photography , Sally's Cookie Addiction is the only cookie book you need on your shelf. No one knows sweet like Sally!
Reviews
"Our family has been very happy trying out the recipes and we have had great results so far."
"I love love the cookie book-she gives great cookies receipes-what supplys you need-make ahead tips-lots of bookmarks on cookies I want to bake."
"The pictures are just beautiful and every recipe is a tried and true recipe!"
"I especially recommend the gingerbread, buttery shortbread, shortbread bars, and the oatmeal raisin cookies."
"Sally's recipes are always a hit."
"This book has the best recipes for baking cookies!"
"Love the photos for each cookie!"
"I count down the days til the weekend when I can try another great recipe from this cookbook."
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Best Cake Baking

Mary Berry's Baking Bible: Over 250 Classic Recipes
Full-color photographs and illustrations that detail trickier steps are accompanied by easy-to-follow instructions and handy tips, making this an ideal resource for kitchen novices and more experienced cooks alike. Mary Berry is the author of more than 30 cookbooks, including Cook Now, Eat Later ; Mary Berry’s Complete Cookbook ; Mary Berry's Stress-Free Kitchen ; Mary Berry’s Ultimate Cake Book ; and Real Food—Fast .
Reviews
"Here is a list of the recipes included in this book (from Sooz on Amazon UK site)."
"Wonderful recipes, but a bit of a challenge from the US side of the pond."
"Great recipes, great tips!"
"Perfect for my Grand daughter - who loves baking and Mary Berry !"
"Exactly what I wanted."
"Present arrived on time while recipient was overseas."
"I love to bake and now I have found the most fabulous book in Mary Berry's Baking Bible."
"Great service - love this book!"
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Best Baking

Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza
Whether you’re a total beginner or a serious baker, Flour Water Salt Yeas t has a recipe that suits your skill level and time constraints: Start with a straight dough and have fresh bread ready by supper time, or explore pre-ferments with a bread that uses biga or poolish. Featuring a tutorial on baker’s percentages, advice for manipulating ingredients ratios to create custom doughs, tips for adapting bread baking schedules to fit your day-to-day life, and an entire chapter that demystifies the levain-making process, Flour Water Salt Yeast is an indispensable resource for bakers who want to make their daily bread exceptional bread. Winner, IACP Awards 2013 - Baking: Savory or Sweet. Winner, James Beard Foundation Award 2013 - Baking and Dessert “If books full of stunning bread porn — all craggy crusts, yeasty bubbles and floured work surfaces — are your thing, here's Flour Water Salt Yeast by Ken Forkish.” —Eater National. "Legendary Portland baker Ken Forkish (of the watershed Ken's Artisan Bakery and much-loved Ken's Artisan Pizza) has joined the ranks of the lauded letterers with his mammoth new cookbook Water Flour Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza. "Divided into four sections (“The Principles of Artisan Bread,” “Basic Bread Recipes,” “Levain Bread Recipes,” and “Pizza Recipes”), with recipes broken down by breads made with store-bought yeast, breads made with long-fermented simple doughs, and doughs made with pre-ferments, the book presents recipes accessible to novices, while providing a different approach for making dough to experienced bakers. The man abandoned his past, courageously stepped off the cliff and followed his passion, and the result has been a gift to all of us: great breads, fabulous pizzas, and now this beautiful book— Flour Water Salt Yeast —in which he reveals all.” —Peter Reinhart, author of Artisan Breads Every Day and The Joy of Gluten-Free, Sugar-Free Baking “Ken nails it, end of story, when it comes to the best levain bread or the thinnest, most perfect pizza crust you’ve ever had.
Reviews
"First off, if you are looking for a book of great, simple recipes that you can throw in the breadmaker real quick once you get home, this is NOT the book for you. You will learn how to literally use temperature and times as ingredients and how these can make bread made with the very same ingredients VERY different. The recipes are for lean dough, non-enriched breads, made straight, with delayed fermentation, and finally as pure sourdough. This book is a fantastic stepping stone for more varied texts (Bread Bible, Bread Baker's Apprentice, and the all but sacred bread text "The Taste of Bread" by Raymond Calvel)."
"But what Ken Forkish has done here is not simply to give you recipes, but to teach you to think with the flexibility that bread baking demands, and to also demand creativity out of you to go past what's in the book. There's a fantastic section on how to make recipes your own, whether it be about flour choices (and the different hydration requirements that some flours require), rearranging schedules to make your bread revolve around your life, the various options you have with levains, how to document your experimentation so that you can reproduce the results the next time."
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Best Cookbooks, Food & Wine in Arabic

الطبخ بالأواني الفخارية السهلة التحضير (Arabic Edition)
يعتبر الطبخ في الأواني الفخارية صحياً جداً ولا يشكل خطراً كما هي الحال مع طناجر ضغط البخار إذا اتَبعتي سيدتي خطواتنا بحذافيرها.
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Best Confectionary Desserts

Sally's Cookie Addiction: Irresistible Cookies, Cookie Bars, Shortbread, and More from the Creator of Sally's Baking Addiction
Featuring a mouthwatering selection of cookies , cookie bars , cookie dough dips , slice-and-bakes , no-bakes , and more, Sally's Cookie Addiction features dozens of exciting flavors, including chocolate, butterscotch, peanut butter, sugar, coconut, lemon, s’more, and oatmeal, oh my! Complete with tips on how to bake the perfect cookie and gorgeous photography , Sally's Cookie Addiction is the only cookie book you need on your shelf. No one knows sweet like Sally!
Reviews
"Our family has been very happy trying out the recipes and we have had great results so far."
"I love love the cookie book-she gives great cookies receipes-what supplys you need-make ahead tips-lots of bookmarks on cookies I want to bake."
"The pictures are just beautiful and every recipe is a tried and true recipe!"
"I especially recommend the gingerbread, buttery shortbread, shortbread bars, and the oatmeal raisin cookies."
"Sally's recipes are always a hit."
"This book has the best recipes for baking cookies!"
"Love the photos for each cookie!"
"I count down the days til the weekend when I can try another great recipe from this cookbook."
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Best 45-Minute Cookbook, Food & Wine Short Reads

Anthony Bourdain: The Kindle Singles Interview (Kindle Single)
He was previously a writer and editor at The New York Times Magazine, and a contributing editor at New York and Esquire magazines.
Reviews
"Bourdain obviously, and wisely, thinks about all these kind of questions beforehand, even so it has some of the no nonsense off the cuff remarks he is famous for."
"Perfect follow-up/bookend if your only real experience with Bourdain was "Kitchen Confidential.""
"Love Anthony Bourdain, so this was a great interview."
"Delightful person...totally upfront and "out there" ....prompted me to read his book "Kitchen Confidential"...which I am totally enjoying."
"Anthony Bourdain's book is a "no holds barred" expose of what happens in the kitchen without the customers' knowledge."
"It may be a bit ironic to write a review about this interview considering its content, but the restaurant world - the world in general - would be a better place if more people listened to Anthony Bourdain."
"I am glad I have read this interview, my husband is a Chef, and, it is almost an unbelievable difficult job, mainly if you want to do it the right way...thanks God we are over it, raised two wonderful boys, one is a successful hotelier who with two partners, they created a successful concept in Miami, and the other works for a Hotel Corp. Mister Bourdain, I could not sometimes understand your boldness projected through your programs, sometimes bordering the line of arrogance, yet, after reading and understanding you better, I do take my hat off!."
"It was a very short read."
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Best Pie Baking

Art of the Pie: A Practical Guide to Homemade Crusts, Fillings, and Life
One of 2016’s. BEST COOKBOOKS. *, THE Pie-Baking Bible. **, an. INSTANT CLASSIC. ***, with raves from NPR, Oprah.com, USA Today, Bon Appetit, Cosmopolitan, Outlander Kitchen, and more. With pioneer spirit she throws the textbook out the window and comes up with absolutely perfect crust filled with fruit that actually sings to you, telling you when it’s ready to be removed from the oven.”. - Ruth Reichl, Former editor of Gourmet, Author of Tender at the Bone and Comfort Me with Apples among other titles. Kate’s recipes are logical and easy to follow, her hints and tricks helpful to even the most experienced pie baker. What really blew our mind was her recipe for a gluten-free nutty no-bake crust that we want to eat with a gooey chocolate filling at the next pie opportunity. More importantly, however, she exudes the passion and joy we all hope to see in our mentors―the obvious reason that her pie camps and workshops regularly sell out. “McDermott, a self-taught baker whose workshops have taught hundreds how to make a proper pie, shares that knowledge in one of the best books written on the topic. Those expecting a quick preamble followed by hundreds of pie recipes will be sorely disappointed―basic instructions take up a third of the book―but readers interested in the hows and whys of pie-making will find McDermott’s tutelage invaluable…McDermott excels, giving readers an informative guide they will be referring to for years to come.”. - Publisher’s Weekly, *STARRED REVIEW*.
Reviews
"I made her all-butter crust and topped it with her recipe for lemon meringue."
"Possibly my favorite cookbook of all time."
"This book is now my pie Bible!"
"The Triple Berry pie is our favorite fruit pie recipe."
"I've purchased 4 of these; one for myself, the others are Christmas gifts for daughters and grand daughters."
"The crust recipes and directions are easy to follow and the results are superb."
"An excellent book for those persons who are in to baking pies."
"I love to bake and needed a few hints since many of my recipe books give little info on pies."
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Best Pizza Baking

Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza
Whether you’re a total beginner or a serious baker, Flour Water Salt Yeas t has a recipe that suits your skill level and time constraints: Start with a straight dough and have fresh bread ready by supper time, or explore pre-ferments with a bread that uses biga or poolish. Featuring a tutorial on baker’s percentages, advice for manipulating ingredients ratios to create custom doughs, tips for adapting bread baking schedules to fit your day-to-day life, and an entire chapter that demystifies the levain-making process, Flour Water Salt Yeast is an indispensable resource for bakers who want to make their daily bread exceptional bread. Winner, IACP Awards 2013 - Baking: Savory or Sweet. Winner, James Beard Foundation Award 2013 - Baking and Dessert “If books full of stunning bread porn — all craggy crusts, yeasty bubbles and floured work surfaces — are your thing, here's Flour Water Salt Yeast by Ken Forkish.” —Eater National. "Legendary Portland baker Ken Forkish (of the watershed Ken's Artisan Bakery and much-loved Ken's Artisan Pizza) has joined the ranks of the lauded letterers with his mammoth new cookbook Water Flour Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza. "Divided into four sections (“The Principles of Artisan Bread,” “Basic Bread Recipes,” “Levain Bread Recipes,” and “Pizza Recipes”), with recipes broken down by breads made with store-bought yeast, breads made with long-fermented simple doughs, and doughs made with pre-ferments, the book presents recipes accessible to novices, while providing a different approach for making dough to experienced bakers. The man abandoned his past, courageously stepped off the cliff and followed his passion, and the result has been a gift to all of us: great breads, fabulous pizzas, and now this beautiful book— Flour Water Salt Yeast —in which he reveals all.” —Peter Reinhart, author of Artisan Breads Every Day and The Joy of Gluten-Free, Sugar-Free Baking “Ken nails it, end of story, when it comes to the best levain bread or the thinnest, most perfect pizza crust you’ve ever had.
Reviews
"First off, if you are looking for a book of great, simple recipes that you can throw in the breadmaker real quick once you get home, this is NOT the book for you. You will learn how to literally use temperature and times as ingredients and how these can make bread made with the very same ingredients VERY different. The recipes are for lean dough, non-enriched breads, made straight, with delayed fermentation, and finally as pure sourdough. This book is a fantastic stepping stone for more varied texts (Bread Bible, Bread Baker's Apprentice, and the all but sacred bread text "The Taste of Bread" by Raymond Calvel)."
"But what Ken Forkish has done here is not simply to give you recipes, but to teach you to think with the flexibility that bread baking demands, and to also demand creativity out of you to go past what's in the book. There's a fantastic section on how to make recipes your own, whether it be about flour choices (and the different hydration requirements that some flours require), rearranging schedules to make your bread revolve around your life, the various options you have with levains, how to document your experimentation so that you can reproduce the results the next time."
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Best Bread Baking

Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza
Whether you’re a total beginner or a serious baker, Flour Water Salt Yeas t has a recipe that suits your skill level and time constraints: Start with a straight dough and have fresh bread ready by supper time, or explore pre-ferments with a bread that uses biga or poolish. Featuring a tutorial on baker’s percentages, advice for manipulating ingredients ratios to create custom doughs, tips for adapting bread baking schedules to fit your day-to-day life, and an entire chapter that demystifies the levain-making process, Flour Water Salt Yeast is an indispensable resource for bakers who want to make their daily bread exceptional bread. Winner, IACP Awards 2013 - Baking: Savory or Sweet. Winner, James Beard Foundation Award 2013 - Baking and Dessert “If books full of stunning bread porn — all craggy crusts, yeasty bubbles and floured work surfaces — are your thing, here's Flour Water Salt Yeast by Ken Forkish.” —Eater National. "Legendary Portland baker Ken Forkish (of the watershed Ken's Artisan Bakery and much-loved Ken's Artisan Pizza) has joined the ranks of the lauded letterers with his mammoth new cookbook Water Flour Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza. "Divided into four sections (“The Principles of Artisan Bread,” “Basic Bread Recipes,” “Levain Bread Recipes,” and “Pizza Recipes”), with recipes broken down by breads made with store-bought yeast, breads made with long-fermented simple doughs, and doughs made with pre-ferments, the book presents recipes accessible to novices, while providing a different approach for making dough to experienced bakers. The man abandoned his past, courageously stepped off the cliff and followed his passion, and the result has been a gift to all of us: great breads, fabulous pizzas, and now this beautiful book— Flour Water Salt Yeast —in which he reveals all.” —Peter Reinhart, author of Artisan Breads Every Day and The Joy of Gluten-Free, Sugar-Free Baking “Ken nails it, end of story, when it comes to the best levain bread or the thinnest, most perfect pizza crust you’ve ever had.
Reviews
"First off, if you are looking for a book of great, simple recipes that you can throw in the breadmaker real quick once you get home, this is NOT the book for you. You will learn how to literally use temperature and times as ingredients and how these can make bread made with the very same ingredients VERY different. The recipes are for lean dough, non-enriched breads, made straight, with delayed fermentation, and finally as pure sourdough. This book is a fantastic stepping stone for more varied texts (Bread Bible, Bread Baker's Apprentice, and the all but sacred bread text "The Taste of Bread" by Raymond Calvel)."
"But what Ken Forkish has done here is not simply to give you recipes, but to teach you to think with the flexibility that bread baking demands, and to also demand creativity out of you to go past what's in the book. There's a fantastic section on how to make recipes your own, whether it be about flour choices (and the different hydration requirements that some flours require), rearranging schedules to make your bread revolve around your life, the various options you have with levains, how to document your experimentation so that you can reproduce the results the next time."
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Best Pastry Baking

Martha Stewart's Baking Handbook
Covering a delectable array of topics from simple to sophisticated, including biscuits, muffins, scones, cookies, layer cakes, specialty cakes, sweet and savory pies and tarts, and pastries and breads, she provides a dazzlingly delicious yet crystal-clear, vividly illustrated repertoire of recipes. There are cakes that are elegant enough for formal occasions, such as showers, weddings, and dinner parties, and basic favorites meant to be enjoyed every day and then passed down through the generations. “Here, you will find the recipes and how-tos for the popovers you dream about, and for the simple crumb cake that you always want to whip up on Sunday morning, and for the double-chocolate brownie cookies that will make you a bigger hero with the after-school crowd, and for the citrus bars that you could only find in that little bakery that’s no longer under the same management. Martha Stewart's Baking Handbook presents the doyenne of the Better Way in tip-top form.
Reviews
"I love Martha's cook books, this is no exception."
"Perfection."
"What can you say about Martha."
"This is a good book for any baker."
"Arrived promptly, but the book was not as helpful as it might have been."
"Great Baking Book, I have a couple of different baking books but this one tops the it's full of a lot good recipes I really like it."
"This book has many great ideas."
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Best Biscuit, Muffin & Scone Baking

The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook: A Master Baker's 300 Favorite Recipes for Perfect-Every-Time Bread-From Every Kind of Machine
-Whole Wheat Bread. -Gluten Free Bread. -Sourdough Bread. -Nut Bread. -Cheese Bread. -Pizza and Focaccia. -Coffee Cakes and Sweet Roll. -Chocolate Bread. However, the newer generation of machines turns out excellent bread, and after being bombarded with know-how by this James Beard Award-winning writer, even the most reluctant may be inspired to give it a go. There are recipes for pizza and flatbreads, as well as selections from a variety of traditions, from Alsatian kugelhopf to Zuni Indian bread. (Aug.). Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Reviews
"I have had his bread machine cook book for years."
"I have never made homemade bread before."
"I highly recommend this to any bake at home person, especially ones with a bread machine that came with a limited recipe book."
"I was reading up on the sourdough recipes and it explains in detail how to make the starter also gives a brief history of its origins."
"Unfortunately, medical issues have removed bread from my diet, but I still cook for family, and this is my long-time favorite collection of bread recipes."
"What is awesome about this book it is it does not include just recipes, but HOW they differ, what works, what doesn't, history, tips, etc."
"I've tried multiple recipes from this book with tasty results and look forward to trying more of them."
"Lots of good recipes in this book but if you don't want recipes with "complicated" ingredients then don't buy it."
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