Shop Notes:
This book is a classic. While I've yet to visit a professional bakery that doesn't have a well-worn and flour-covered copy of King Arthur's All-Purpose Baker's Companion sitting in hand's reach, this is also an essential book for home bakers who want access to tried and true recipes and quick references on process and method across a wide variety of baking applications. This makes a great gift for beginning bakers as well.
From the Publisher:
Comprehensive in scope, authoritative in style, and offering clear, practical, and encouraging instruction, The King Arthur Baking Company's All-Purpose Baker's Companion is the one book you'll turn to every time you bake. The experts from King Arthur lead home bakers through hundreds of easy and foolproof recipes from yeast breads and sourdoughs to cakes and cookies to quick breads and brownies. Winner of the 2004 Cookbook of the Year Award by the James Beard Foundation, this dependable cookbook has been reinvigorated with new photography, recipes, and revisions to keep it relevant to today's modern baker.
Decades of research in their famous test kitchen shaped the contents of this book which includes more than 350 recipes, a completely up-to-date overview of ingredients (including gluten-free options), substitutions and variations, and troubleshooting advice. Sidebars share baking secrets and provide clear step-by-step instructions. Techniques are further explained with easy-to-follow illustrations. Now fully revised and updated,The King Arthur Baking Company's All-Purpose Baker's Companion is an essential kitchen tool.
24 pages of color photos, 150 illustrations
About the Author:
King Arthur Baking Company has been a baking resource since 1790, when Bostonian Henry Wood began importing flour from England to sell in America. With a long and storied history, King Arthur has set the gold standard for generations in providing expert guidance, inspiration, and premium products and ingredients to bakers. The company became 100% employee-owned in 2004, and a founding B Corp in 2007, solidifying their mission to use baking as a force for social good. They're committed to much more than profit and dedicated to building community and protecting the planet. King Arthur runs a baking school with two campuses (Vermont and Washington State), educates children through its Bake for Good program, and works to spread the joy of baking through workshops, classes, instruction, and conversationboth digitally and in-personto bakers everywhere.
Release Date: November 2021
Condition: New
