Bread & Cakes

How to prepare and enjoy delightful desserts when you have diabetes People with diabetes often believe that they cannot enjoy rich, delicious-tasting cooking--such as desserts. Professor, chef, and dietitian Sandy Kapoor proves them wrong, showing those who suffer from diabetes how they can fit desserts into a healthy plan of eating.

Three professional cake designers combine their talents in the 15 cake decoration projects in this book, each of which has variations to reduce the time it takes to make it, and adaptations for creating different designs. For example, a windowbox cake can be adapted into a tropical aquarium cake.

First published in London in 1805, this book provides an entertaining and instructive tour through the whole process of bread-making--from growing and harvesting the wheat to running an effective bakehouse. A variety of recipes for breads made from wheat and other grains and potatoes is included.

In the early 50s, Maria Grammatico and her sister were sent by their impoverished mother to live in a convent in Erice, on the western coast of Sicily. Leaving at 22, Maria had nothing to show for her hard life there except the ability to make the cakes and delicacies she has made her life's work.

From cookbooks and family recipes to novels, poems, songs and cartoons, this book tells the story of puddings and how they developed from early savoury, sausage - like mixtures to today's sweet and sticky confections. It traces the development of puddings and explains how advances in kitchen equipment have changed them over time.

15 animal themed party cakes, from favourite pets to an elephant, fish and hedgehog. Lindy uses sugarpaste, buttercream and clever techniques to create the colours, textures, patterns and shapes that make animal cakes so much fun. Variation design ideas, quick-and-clever cupcakes and delicious cookies continue the theme for a choice of party food

Whether they're glistening with sticky glaze, sandy-sweet with cinnamon and sugar, or oozing with red jelly, nothing encourages us to bow to our sweet-tooth cravings like the donut. Devour tales of donut masters. Learn the secrets of the hole. It's all here in one deliciously engaging nostalgic trip.

Up-to-date, advanced techniques for the professional pastry chef and serious home baker The Advanced Professional Pastry Chef brings up-to-date coverage of the latest baking and pastry techniques to a new generation of pastry chefs and serious home bakers.

"I'm thrilled to see that Liz Clark's wonderful breads are reaching a wide public-now everyone can enjoy them!"-Nick Malgieri, pastry cook, teacher, author of Nick Malgieri's Perfect Pastry, Great Italian Desserts, and How to Bake."Liz was a friend of the great Richard Olney both of whom were born in Iowa."-Reviewer"Liz Clark's keen interest in travel, history, and ability to 'tell a charming story from her childhood' is deliciously expressed in her prose as well as her recipes that are distinct and unmistakably accessible to even the most timid bread baker. Her mouthwatering bread recipes gave rise to an urgent desire for a [Norman Rockwell 'heel' of warm bread slathered with farm-churned butter]."-Janeen Sarlin, lecturer, teacher, author of Food From an American Farm, The New Meatlover's Cookbook, and Everyday Roasting.About the Author:Liz Clark was born and raised on a farm at the juncture of the Des Moines and Mississippi Rivers in Southeast Iowa. The American Institute of Wine and Food featured Liz as one of the "Leading Chef's of the Mid West" in 1989. Besides this book, Liz is the co-author of Apple Companion, contributed to Barbara Grunes's Heartland Food Society Cookbook, Susan Hermann Loomis's The Farmhouse Cookbook, and the James Beard Foundation's The James Beard Celebration, edited by Barbara Kafka. Liz operates a cooking school and a private, by-reservation-only, restaurant in a restored 1847 Italianate Villa-Style house on a bluff above the Mississippi River in Keokuk, Iowa.