Maida Heatter's Book of Great Cookies
by Maida Heatter
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Carefully worked-out recipes promise every kind of cookie, and a few surprise delicacies, the cookie lover could wish for, providing for a great variety of drop, bar, icebox, rolled, and hand-formed confections.Tags
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Maida is very specific in her directions, to the point of nitpickiness, but if you can get past that, the recipes are first class. Every one I've tried has turned out delicious. Everyone loves the mint brownies (Chocolate Mint Sticks, not listed as brownies in the index), with the layer of mint frosting under a thin chocolate glaze. My copy is embarrassingly coated with splatters of all sorts from being on the counter when I cooked.
A compendium of COOKIES: drop, bar, icebox, rolled and hand-formed. Written in the days before microwaves (for melting chocolate), it also has many ingredients verboten today: butter and eggs, for example. The instructions are not only clear, but complete. A real treasure.
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Maida Heatter is a cookbook author who began her career as a fashion illustrator and jewelry designer before she opened a cafe, the Inside, in Miami Beach in the 1960s. She drew the attention of Times food editor Craig Claiborne, who wrote in 1968: "She is hands down the foremost food authority in Florida." The Times began featuring her recipes. show more In 1974, she published Maida Heatter's Book of Great Desserts, the first of many titles that included Happiness Is Baking: Favorite Desserts From the Queen of Cake, published two months ago. Among her other books are Maida Heatter's Book of Great Chocolate Desserts (1980) and Maida Heatter's Cookies (1997). She won three James Beard Awards and was inducted to the foundation's Cookbook Hall of Fame in 1980 and again in 1998. Maida Heatter passed away on June 6, 2019 at the age of 102. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1977
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- Genres
- Food & Cooking, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 641.8654 — Applied Science & Technology Home economics & family management Food, Cooking & Recipes / Meals, Picnics Cooking specific kinds of dishes and preparing beverages Desserts Baking Cookies
- LCC
- TX772 .H4 — Technology Home economics Home economics Cooking
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 1
- ASINs
- 4
