February 18, 2013 - 12:30pm
BakeWise by Shirley O. Corriher
She does not have very many bread recipes in her book, because she covers the whole realm of baking: cakes, pies, cookies, BUT she does a great job of explaining the science behind bread. It's a great, very readable how and why book.
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but also the source of one of my biggest bread baking flops ever! It was really quite stunning to have followed the recipe so faithfully and have it come out so badly. I'm sure that I did something less well than I thought I had. At the time, I couldn't begin to guess what, though. Maybe it's time to revisit the book and that bread, just to see if better results can be achieved.
Paul
I thought Cookwise was an excellent book, but Bakewise was a bit of a disaster, organizationally speaking. Sections are repetitive, it is hard to follow, and just not as clear or as concise as her first book.