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The King Arthur Baking School: Lessons and Recipes for Every Baker
In its first full-color cookbook, the renowned Baking School at King Arthur shares more than 100 recipes and essential techniques.
Baking is a craft, one that has been celebrated by King Arthur Baking Company for more than two centuries. Their Baking School, an essential part of the King Arthur community, is now a book to cherish. It reflects a curriculum that has been honed and refined over the years, with instructors who are experts not just at baking, but at teaching baking. The recipes, notes, instructive photographs, and thoughtfully organized chapters here reflect this depth of experience. From Yeast Breads to Sourdough, Laminated Pastries to Pies and Tarts, Cookies to Cake, readers gain confidence as they play in the kitchen and build new skills. King Arthur's unique approach is friendly and accessible to all levels, focusing on the "how" and "why." So much of the magic of baking is understanding how the ingredients interact, trusting when bread dough is proofed, appreciating how buttercream comes together. Welcome to Baking School!
200 color photographs
Baking is a craft, one that has been celebrated by King Arthur Baking Company for more than two centuries. Their Baking School, an essential part of the King Arthur community, is now a book to cherish. It reflects a curriculum that has been honed and refined over the years, with instructors who are experts not just at baking, but at teaching baking. The recipes, notes, instructive photographs, and thoughtfully organized chapters here reflect this depth of experience. From Yeast Breads to Sourdough, Laminated Pastries to Pies and Tarts, Cookies to Cake, readers gain confidence as they play in the kitchen and build new skills. King Arthur's unique approach is friendly and accessible to all levels, focusing on the "how" and "why." So much of the magic of baking is understanding how the ingredients interact, trusting when bread dough is proofed, appreciating how buttercream comes together. Welcome to Baking School!
200 color photographs
Editorial Reviews
"For years I've wanted to take classes at the King Arthur Baking School. Now, all I've got to do is walk into my kitchen: everything that the school teaches so famously well is in this remarkable book. Each recipe builds on what you've learned, each chapter takes you a little further, each Master Class ensures that you've got the skills. It's brilliant...delicious fun."
― Doris Greenspan, author of Baking with Dorie and Everyday Dorie
"King Arthur Baking School is where bakers, of all skills, will turn to for guidance. From cookies to laminated doughs and yeasted bread, their team of experts shows you how to bake with confidence and success. You can go straight to the trusted recipes or move through the book like going to culinary school. This cookbook is the companion every kitchen will have on its shelf! "
― Zoe Francois, author of Zoe Bakes Cakes and Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day
"The regal grain brand is back with another resource for flour fans in this thorough guide to the hows, whys, science, and art of baking. Commonly asked questions, such as how to tell when a sourdough starter is "ripe," and pro tip callouts simulate the classroom experience of the baking classes King Arthur offers (and which are attended by 10,000 bakers annually), with pointers such as using weight over volume in measurements, adding eggs one at a time to a batter (for better emulsification), or including a touch of cake flour in a puff pastry recipe (for enhanced moisture absorption)....This is a compendium that bakers who want to get better and better will refer to over and over. "
― Publisher's Weekly, Starred Review
"When it comes to high-quality ingredients and savvy baking how-to's, nothing beats King Arthur Baking Company. The Vermont-based brand has been educating bakers since 1790, and their most recent book celebrates both baking and learning. Made for newbies and baking-pros alike, Baking School has over 100 recipes from easy bakes to daunting projects. Baking School offers clear instructions that have been honed over the company's tenure for trickier projects like laminating pastry dough. The title of the book is so fitting: following King Arthur's carefully tested recipes, reading their detailed explanations, and looking at their gorgeous and informative photography will quickly hone your baking skills. Baking School is truly the essential guide to baking."
― Food & Wine
"King Arthur has a new book, Baking School, coming out in October, and it truly is the most gorgeous, distinctive, and mo...
― Doris Greenspan, author of Baking with Dorie and Everyday Dorie
"King Arthur Baking School is where bakers, of all skills, will turn to for guidance. From cookies to laminated doughs and yeasted bread, their team of experts shows you how to bake with confidence and success. You can go straight to the trusted recipes or move through the book like going to culinary school. This cookbook is the companion every kitchen will have on its shelf! "
― Zoe Francois, author of Zoe Bakes Cakes and Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day
"The regal grain brand is back with another resource for flour fans in this thorough guide to the hows, whys, science, and art of baking. Commonly asked questions, such as how to tell when a sourdough starter is "ripe," and pro tip callouts simulate the classroom experience of the baking classes King Arthur offers (and which are attended by 10,000 bakers annually), with pointers such as using weight over volume in measurements, adding eggs one at a time to a batter (for better emulsification), or including a touch of cake flour in a puff pastry recipe (for enhanced moisture absorption)....This is a compendium that bakers who want to get better and better will refer to over and over. "
― Publisher's Weekly, Starred Review
"When it comes to high-quality ingredients and savvy baking how-to's, nothing beats King Arthur Baking Company. The Vermont-based brand has been educating bakers since 1790, and their most recent book celebrates both baking and learning. Made for newbies and baking-pros alike, Baking School has over 100 recipes from easy bakes to daunting projects. Baking School offers clear instructions that have been honed over the company's tenure for trickier projects like laminating pastry dough. The title of the book is so fitting: following King Arthur's carefully tested recipes, reading their detailed explanations, and looking at their gorgeous and informative photography will quickly hone your baking skills. Baking School is truly the essential guide to baking."
― Food & Wine
"King Arthur has a new book, Baking School, coming out in October, and it truly is the most gorgeous, distinctive, and mo...
Readers Top Reviews
Rick
It was only a year and a half ago that King Arthur released their updated and revised version of Baker's Companion. I don't see what this is getting me above and beyond that. My primary focus is bread, and I have a number of reviews of prominent bread books already published on Amazon. When I browse this book, I don't really see much of anything that I'm going to learn from it in that aspect of baking. One of the features of this book is the "Master Class" that comes at the end of the chapters. "These 'Master Classes' build upon each chapter's skills, allowing you to apply what you've just learned to a new idea or baked good. These instructors are bona fide experts in their field and very particular about how they approach their craft" (p. xxiii). The Master Class from the yeast bread chapter is Unkneaded Six-Fold French Bread (Baguette) by Jeffrey Hamelman, a former employee of King Arthur. Many of us already have this recipe from Hamelman's "Bread" 2nd edition (p. 272) and/or 3rd edition (p. 284), and this book has been available through King Arthur for years. This is the third time that I've paid money for a book containing this recipe--which can be found for free on King Arthur's website as of the date of this review! The next chapter on sourdough contains a Master Class recipe from James MacGuire called Miche Pointe-a-Calliere. All three editions of Hamelman's "Bread" contain a recipe of this name by MacGuire, thus making this the fourth time that I've paid for a book containing this recipe. These Master Classes are the culmination of the chapters on bread, so you should be able to see two reasons why I have no enthusiasm for this book. It's going to take some time to assess the rest of this book to determine what exactly was the necessity for it that Baker's Companion cannot provide. If money's tight, then I'd hold off on your purchase until the reviewers have had more time to digest what's here. I'll be happy to update this review if my views change.
Karole LeeRick
What a wonderful format, especially for the beginner baker (like me!). Beautifully illustrated with excellent techniques clearly defined. This isn't a cookbook, it is a text book for bakers of all levels. Really great reference book! And, an enjoyable read.
CMSKarole LeeRick
I saw the King Arthur's book in their catalogue and didn't want to pay the full price of $45. When I saw the book on Amazon $10 less, I bought it. After exploring the book, it seems as though instructions and do's and don'ts are explained well. I am not an avid baker so I need easy to follow instructions. Years ago, I bought a book named Tartine and it was a challenge to work with. I'm hoping Amazon sells King Arthur's products since on the website, the products are pricey and since I don't bake much, I don't want to spend the money.
moniqueCMSKarole
KA products are my family favorite. I have their revised Baker’s Companion cookbook also worth buying. What I like about this company is that they give you tried and tested recipes that will work and they tell you how to make them and what to do in case something goes west. It would have been nice to have it in ebook. I usually buy from google play store my ebooks. But it was almost $50 and to buy it in printed form was $35 on top of that they had a 5 off coupon on Amazon. So $30 lol. But I did see the ebook version but returned it. The printed version is so MUCH NICER! Btw Target sells their flours in store at a great price as does Walmart.
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