Download or read book The Perfect Recipe Baking Book written by Murray Jaffe and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary baker distills a lifetime of experience into _ simple, sure-fire, and absolutely delicious recipes that anyone can follow and enjoy.Murray Jaffe knows that there are thousands of recipes for something as simple as apple pie: sour-cream apple pie, deep-dish apple pie, walnut-raisin apple pie, and on and on. And there are just as many recipes for piecrusts, with just as many choices: butter, shortening, or oil? Brown sugar or white? Rolled or pressed? For anyone who finds baking somewhat intimidating, all those choices can be overwhelming.The Perfect Recipe Baking Book contains fifty uncomplicated recipes guaranteed to produce spectacular and satisfying results for everything from apple pie to coffee cake, zucchini bread, peanut butter cookies, and blueberry muffins. Each one has been extensively tested to ensure that not only does it work, but that there is just no better way to bake it.As a professional baker-turned-millionaire, Jaffe is devoted to his craft. He knows what people like to eat and what they want to bake. He has spent his retirement tirelessly testing and perfecting these recipes for the home baker, creating the ideal version he would want to eat for the rest of his life. The results are fabulous.With invaluable tips on equipment, ovens, ingredients and baking principles, The Perfect Recipe Baking Book is, quite simply, the only baking book most of us will ever need.The author deconstructs 50 classic pies, cakes and cookies with paternal and meticulous detail. -- The New York Times