Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Tea Time or Advanced Bread and Pastry

Tea Time: Tradition, Presentation, And Recipes

Author: M Dalton King

An enchanting history of tea drinking customs, offering wonderful recipes and classic serving suggestions for special teas.



Interesting book: Hamburger or Best 50 Crepe Recipes

Advanced Bread and Pastry

Author: Michel Suas

Advanced Bread and Pastry, A Professional Approach is a comprehensive guide to bread, viennoiserie, and pastry that is designed for students, professionals, and enthusiasts. Balancing a respect for tradition with modern approaches to method and technique, Advanced Bread and Pastry unites appealing presentation and indispensable instruction. It is written to help today's baker respond to the recent evolution of ingredients, products, and presentation. The recipes (called formulas) are based on a variety of classica methods and processes. With this strong foundation of knowledge, a baker or pastry chef can develop further skills, experiment with new ideas, and understand any formula.



Table of Contents:

Part 1: Introduction
Chapter 1: About the Craft
Chapter 2: About Hygiene and Sanitation Part 2: Breads

Chapter 3: The Bread Process and Dough Mixing
Chapter 4: Fermentation
Chapter 5: Baking Bread
Chapter 6: Advanced flour technology
Chapter 7: Alternative baking processes
Chapter 8: Bread Formulas Part 3: Viennoiserie
Chapter 9: Viennoiserie Part 4: Pastry
Chapter 10: Cookies
Chapter 11: Quick breads
Chapter 12: Pastry Dough
Chapter 13: Pies & Tarts
Chapter 14: Cake Mixing and Baking
Chapter 15: Syrups, Creams, Custards, Egg Foams, and Icings
Chapter 16: Mousse
Chapter 17: Classic and Modern Cake Assembly
Chapter 18: Petits Fours and Confections
Chapter 19: Frozen Desserts
Chapter 20: Plated Desserts
Chapter 21: Advanced Decoration
Chapter 22: Chocolate and Chocolate Work Glossary Appendices

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