cook book suggestions?

Question

My sister in law is a major baker, I would like to buy her a baking cook book for christmas, any suggestions?

Great suggestions, I need to add, they live in Korea, so seeing what she does have is a little difficult. I could ask her husband, on the sly.

Answer 1

depends on what she likes to bake. I've worked in professional kitchens for 10 years and have come across too many books to name. However, "the pie and pastry bible" by Rose Levy Beranbaum is something that most of us own

Answer 2

You might want to first find out what cook book's she already has. It would be terrible if you went through all the trouble of finding the right cook book, only to find out she already has it. Maybe you could sneak a peak?? Or find out from her husband? Mother?? Etc. Then I would say, one of the best baking cookbooks I have is called "Cookies, Pies, Breads, & Tarts" published by Hermes House. You can probably find it on Amazon.com. It is a really big book and contains over 400 easy to follow recipes, and lots of color photos. Very inspiring. It is definitely a good one and the size of it alone will be pretty impressive!! :) Hope this helps!!

Answer 3

I nonetheless propose the excitement of Cooking for beginners. It has each thing from the thank you to boil an egg or make a sandwich or salad or cook dinner rice, to dishes that are very complicated. What it additionally does is clarify cooking concepts, how nutrition behaves whilst it gets cooked, and a remarkable style of different issues which you would be able to desire to acknowledge to strengthen right into a respectable cook dinner. on the initiating of the muffins section, working example, certainly one of my copies has 8 pages on each thing to do with making muffins in the previous it even gets to any recipes. Measuring, mixing, storing, pan sizes, etc. It tells 5 diverse procedures of cooking a yam, in the previous the recipes come. reading those issues facilitates you realize why you're doing what you're doing that's significant to being a sturdy cook dinner. The recipes are set out in an exceedingly orderly vogue, interior the order you're meant to each thing. does not have pictures yet does have some drawings to describe some concepts. maximum sturdy thorough cookbooks are very mild on pictures. No room. the excitement is around 900 pages with out pictures. With them, it may be the dimensions of a yellow pages. there are a number of variations of the excitement. the maximum recent one is severe high quality, yet one from the Nineteen Seventies would be superb too. won't say plenty approximately microwaves, yet they are not complicated to apply. in case you purchase a style of you would be cooking from it for the subsequent 40 years, as I even have been with the only I have been given in 1970.

Answer 4

Any of the Silver Palate cookbooks. They aren't strictly baking, but are wonderful collections of all kinds of foods, with serving suggestions and tips.

Answer 5

This is a really good site from Old Recipe to New:
www.donnagrayson.com/recipes/bakingcookbooks.html

Answer 6

I used to like watching this guy on PBS.. he did nothing but make bread from all over the world.

http://www.amazon.com/Breaking-Bread-Father-Dominic-Garramone/dp/0967465206

Answer 7

This is gonna sound gay, but any cookin book from Martha Stewart