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Taste of Home Baking, All NEW Edition: 725+ Recipes & Variations from Classics to Best Loved ReviewI received my Taste of Home baking book and couldn't wait to start baking from it- see my picture under customer images for the Beautiful Swiss beer bread I made, it was delicious. The recipes include both sweet and savory, everything from two ingredients (palmier) to a bit more complicated like the apricot filled bread that needs to be started the night before, everything in between, and all baking levels.
Some very good and helpful parts of the cookbook are the equivalent chart, substitutions chart, and the first chapter on baking basics. Baking basics needs to be read first, so you know what flour, salt, etc they use, and what they mean by different words like the difference between stiff peaks and soft peaks.
With taste of home one isn't getting recipes that take four days to make, fifteen pages of techniques, and a bunch of one use only baking equipment. The ingredients are easy to find, most people will have 75% in their fridge and pantry already and the rest can easily be picked up in almost any market.
The book is pretty to look out, has a ton of pictures showing the end results, there are tips galore, at the beginning, end, and scattered throughout the recipes.
I usually don't like spiral books but with over 700 recipes it almost needs to be, or trying to lay the book out would cause spine damage. One very slick feature (shown on my video) are the page protectors included. Seriously, this is brilliant and should set the standard for all notebook type cookbooks.
Included is a year's subscription to Taste of Home magazine.
But it's all about how the food turns out. I try never to post a cookbook review until I've made several recipes, because books can look great and then I find out the directions are actually confusing or their are editing mistakes or the food just doesn't taste good. I spent two days baking (next thing I'm ordering from Amazon is a gel mat!) trying both savory and sweet. The beer cheese bread was delicious. I am usually disappointed in cheese breads because they aren't very cheesy. Taste of Home solves that issue by using a combination of cheese chunks and shredded cheese, so the flavor is all through the bread from the shredded cheese, while bursts of small cheese cubes hit our mouths. Although the recipe calls for swiss I bet this would be great with cheddar.
The walnut bars (page 79) made me laugh because they look so elegant with the glaze and crust, and they were dead easy! Delicious. The Palmier recipe is frozen puff pastry and sugar, but it worked!
I find the timing with my oven at the temperatures they use to be very on point. There do seem to be some gluten free recipes, a chapter on almost homemade that make use of mixes, a lighter chapter that honestly, I'll probably never use. Give me my butter!
Taste of home has produced a very usable and user friendly baking book that would be great for a beginning baker but still has plenty of awesome for more experienced bakers.
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