| | |  | Pastry bags | Home » » » Fannie Farmer Baking Cookbook | | | | | | | Description: | | A collection of 800 recipes with step-by-step instructions and illustrations. Each section on the different types of baking begins with a summary of relevant cooking techniques, necessary ingredients and equipment, and invaluable tips. 300 line drawings. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Marion Cunningham | | Hardcover:
| 624 pages | | Publisher:
| Knopf | | Publication Date:
| September 12, 1984 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 0394533321 | | Package Length:
| 9.4 inches | | Package Width:
| 6.2 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.8 inches | | Package Weight:
| 2.55 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 35 reviews |
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Exellent Book!May 13, 2010
This book is great for obtaining knowledge of baking and making excellent desserts. These are homemade favorites in my house. I bought this book because I lost my copy.
LOVEFeb 10, 2010
This book is excellent and I use it all the time! Everyone I have given it to loves it as well and just raves about how great the recipes are! My only complaint is that it needs to be a bit more sturdy... maybe it's just that my family uses it all the time and is a bit rough on the poor thing, but we have had trouble with them falling apart after a while. Other than that, it is a gem of a cookbook! :)
Fannie Farmer Baking BookJan 30, 2010
Book arrived quickly and in better condition than expected. My wife wanted this book to replace a very used copy that we already had. Since this great baking book has been out of print for a few years we had to find a used copy. Glad we did because it saved us some cash and we got a book that is hardly used at all.
BEST Baking book everJan 23, 2010
All I can do is echo the rave reviews of others here. Every single recipe I've used has come out perfect. I especially love the old fashioned and little heard recipes for pies and cookies. I always wondered what Shoo-Fly Pie was! I've even made the dog biscuit recipe in the back of the book. Four paws up from my dogs for those! My favorite go-to treat is the Lemon Squares as I have a Myer Lemon tree in the yard that produces a lot of fruit. Better than any bakery or store bought that's for sure. Another surprising treat is the Apple Wine turnovers.
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Almost Perfect!Dec 18, 2009
As a professionally trained chef, I am frequently asked for cookbook recommendations. There are very few that I would ever mention. To me, recommending a cookbook is something that should be done with great consideration. The Fannie Farmer Baking Book, The (old) Joy of Cooking, and The Fannie Farmer Cookbook are the broad general cookbooks that I usually recommend.
I have used the Fannie Farmer Baking Book for years. Marion Cunningham uses a mix of rigorous traditionalism and modern variation, but nothing seems silly or ridiculous. The recipes are extremely well written and easy to follow. Ingredients aren't ridiculously difficult to find. Best of all, I trust that what I bake from this book will turn out well. Baking, unlike cooking, requires precision to achieve good results. A good formula is essential. These recipes are obviously well tested and they have withstood the test of time. I have never had a recipe turn out bad if I follow the instructions as they are written.
I have to rave about the dozens upon dozens of cookie recipes. They are always a huge hit. I just recently baked Lebkuchen, the German Christmas cookie made with honey, spices, and candied citron. Wow! They were delicious. The 8-page treatise called "Basic Master Recipe: American Apple Pie" should be read and studied by any serious American cook.
My only complaint is that many of the recipes call for vegetable shortening which is notoriously bad for the coronary arteries. Occasional consumption is probably okay for most people, but I prefer to replace it with butter or clarified butter in some of the recipes. Butter is more difficult to work with because it has a narrower temperature range of plasticity, but it tastes better and isn't quite as bad for the health as artificially hydrogenated oil. Take caution when deviating from these recipes though because they are so consistently perfect, it's a shame to mess up the result with ill-informed tinkering. I include this paragraph only to make the point that intelligent substitutions can be made if the shortening really turns you off.
Marion Cunningham deserves her spot alongside Julia Child, M.F.K. Fisher, and Alice Waters as one of the great women of American cookery. The Fannie Farmer Baking Book is a national treasure. It should be on the shelf of any serious North American baker. Splurge for the hardcover if you can find one.
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