| | |  | Cutters | Home » » » Puff Pastry Perfection: More Than 175 Recipes for Appetizers, Entrees and Sweets Made with Refrigerated Puff Pastry Dough | | | | | | | Description: | | Puff pastry is the royalty of pastries—crisp, flaky, and especially light, it literally rises to any occasion. And although preparing homemade puff pastry is a labor-intensive process, Puff Pastry Perfection shows that a package of frozen puff pastry sheets makes the magnificence of puff pastry accessible to home cooks everywhere.
Puff Pastry Perfection has eliminated the guesswork. At a cost of less than four dollars, one 17.3-ounce package from a grocer's freezer section delivers two perfect puff pastry sheets, prerolled and ready to use in recipes ranging from the first course to the last.
Oh, the enchanting creations that await! Frozen puff pastry can be used to quickly and easily render classics such as napoleons, cream puffs, strudels, turnovers, palmiers, mille-feuille, and French tarts. It can be twisted into appetizer sticks, cut into tartlet shapes, used as a quick pie or quiche crust, folded over savory appetizer fillings, molded over casserole fillings to create one-step pot pie "lids," or rolled and sliced into elegant, but oh-so-easy recipes.
Puff Pastry Perfection is more than just another collection of baked goods. It is a burst of extraordinary flavors that surprise and delight, along with foolproof instructions to make home cooks into baking heroes.
The result? How about portobello napoleons, wasabi shrimp puffs, dried cherry and almond baked brie, or spicy cumin cheese straws for starters? For supper consider chile relleno quiche, puff pastry po' boys, pizza bianco with prosciutto, arugula and parmesan or chipotle and cheese beef pot pie. Next, the sweets: miniatures such as ginger-lime sugar twists, southern pecan crisps, fresh mango napoleons, and puff pastry cinnamon rolls, all perfect for teatime or an anytime nibble. And finally the grand desserts: from lemon-blackberry cobbler to chocolate-walnut strudel to caramel apple dumplings, there's a sweet treat for every taste and occasion. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Camilla V. Saulsbury | | Paperback:
| 240 pages | | Publisher:
| Cumberland House Publishing | | Publication Date:
| November 01, 2006 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 1581825420 | | Package Length:
| 9.1 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.3 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.0 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.8 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 10 reviews |
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2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Perfect Ways to Use Puff PastryOct 19, 2009
I have had my copy of Puff Pastry Perfection for about 2 years now, and am finally getting around to reviewing it.
I got my copy as a gift and wasn't really familiar with puff pastry. Now? I use it all the time. This is a gem of a cookbook, one I really use. I have made the puff pastry pizzas more time than I can count, and use the cookie ideas for last minute cookie trays at Christmas and year-round.
As for the photos (the lack of which has bothered other reviewers here): I guess I have two categories for cookbooks. I love a gorgeous coffee table cookbook, for dreaming and perusing. I want such books to have the very best photos and styling throughout. But then there are my go-to books, the ones I use all the time to really cook and bake from. This book falls into the latter category. Would I have liked some photos included? Sure. Does it make a difference towards how much I use and love the recipe here? Not a bit.
In terms of usability, writing, and fabulous recipes, this really is perfection.
Sophisticated simplicitySep 05, 2009
This is a wonderful "go to" pastry book. I love the front end material as much as the recipes. Wealth of recipes for every occasion. I was expecting more of an appetizer book, and while there are plenty of stellar options for those, I turn to this book for quick dinners (e.g., puff pastry pizzas) and desserts every bit as often.
1 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 These recipes are not readable on the KindleJun 20, 2009
I can't speak to how the recipes in this book are since they are not readable on the Kindle. The font is very odd and has spaces in it so the letters are incomplete even when the font size in increased. But the big problem is that the font size can't be increased for the ingredient list. You can increase the font size for the instruction part of the recipe but the ingredient list stays at about a 6 point font and can't be increased. So between the odd "holey" font that can be increased but is still hard to read and the ingredient list which can't be increased at all, this book is not usable by anyone with less than 20/20 vision. Also there is an index but it isn't linked and isn't readable. All in all a very poor job of migrating this to the Kindle.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Beautiful!Jun 28, 2008
This is already one of my favorite cookbooks! It is wonderful and beautifully made, too.
8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
It will look like you slaved all day in the kitchen - but you wouldn'tMar 30, 2007
Reviewed by Cherie Fisher for Reader Views (2/07)
"Puff Pastry Perfection" is a dream come true for those people who love the taste and feel of puff pastry without the complicated recipes. The book starts with a description and history of Puff Pastry and also adds many valuable tips for working with it successfully. The recipes are based on the store-bought, very affordable, prepackaged Pepperidge Farms brand that can be found in any grocery frozen food section. One advantage to the Pepperidge Farms brand is that it contains partially hydrogenated vegetable shortening instead of butter, so you don't have to worry about serving it to people who are kosher, vegan and lactose intolerant. I was very interested to read about the more expensive and harder to find all butter brand made by Dufour Pastry Kitchens and may try it to compare the difference in taste.
Puff Pastry is very versatile and can be used in appetizers, entrees and desserts, but most cooks do not use it because they are afraid that it is too complicated to work with. This book debunks those myths through over 175 recipes. My biggest problem with the book is where to start with the recipes - I want to try them all! I plan to use the recipes for hosting parties and when attending potluck dinners. I may have to try out the pizzas and Chicken Pot Pie before that though. Who could turn down recipes such as Parmesan Sage Twists, Italian Sausage Rolls, Dried Cherry and Almond Baked Brie, Wild Mushroom-Sausage Pizza, Puff Pastry Po' Boys, Banana Puffed Pie with Chocolate Rum Sauce, fruit tarts and Bittersweet Chocolate Torte, just to name a few?
While this is a great cookbook, I would caution the more inexperienced cook who relies on photos to keep an open mind. I found the instructions to be very simple and easy to follow without photos, but if I were a novice in the kitchen I might be intimidated by the lack of photos. All in all, I found "Puff Pastry Perfection" to be a great book and am looking forward to trying these wonderful recipes!
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