Nick Malgieri's Perfect Pastry: Create Fantastic Desserts by Mastering the Basic Techniques
by Nick Malgieri
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Nick Malgieri teaches bakers the hows and whys of pastry through basic techniques, from handling dough to poaching fruit, from piping meringue to caramelizing sugar. After outlining the proper equipment and basic ingredients, the book teaches readers to create a basic cream puff pastry, flaky doughs, sweet doughs, and cookie doughs. Step-by-step instructions are accompanied by photographs or line drawings for added clarity.Among the more than 200 recipes are Triple Orange Cake, Peach and show more Raspberry Cobbler, and Cranberry Pecan Pie, plus fondants, creams, caramels, glazes, syrups, and sauces for finishing and a chapter on decoration. Nick Malgieri's Perfect Pastry is the faithful companion to novice and advanced bakers alike. show lessTags
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Nick Malgieri is the author of Nick Malgieri's Perfect Pastry and Great Italian Desserts. He is the director of the baking program at Peter Kump's Cooking School in New York and is a frequent guest teacher at schools across the United States. Nick Malgieri's recipes and articles have been published in the New York Times, Gourmet, Chocolatier, Food show more and Wine, and Cook's, among many other periodicals. He is the American correspondent for the Italian magazine La Pasticceria Internazionale. show less
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