The New Best of Betterbaking.com

672 Pages·2019·77.895 MB·English

by  Marcy Goldman

The New Best of BetterBaking.com
The New Best of BetterBaking.com

The New Best of BetterBaking.com
More Than 200 Cl a ssic Recipes
from the Beloved Baker’s Website
Marcy Goldman
River Heart Press
Copyright © 2017 by Marcy Goldman
River Heart Press
Goldman, Marcy
The New Best of Betterbaking.com/Marcy Goldman.
First print edition published 2002 in the United States by Ten Speed
Press and Random House Canada. Second print edition, 2009 by
Whitecap Books, Canada. e-Book Edition 2017 River Heart Press.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,
stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means,
electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without
the prior written permission of the publisher, www.RiverHeartPress.com,
a Marcy Goldman imprint. Contact [email protected].
The information in this book is true and complete to the best of the
author’s knowledge. All recommendations are made without guarantee
on the part of the author or River Heart Press. The author and publisher
disclaim any liability in connection with the use of this information.
Interior Design by Five Seventeen
Food Photography by Ryan Szulc
Food and Prop Styling by Marcy Goldman
Prop Styling by Madeleine Johari (except pages 35, 47, 67, 79, 97)
Additional Food Styling, Maren Caruso, Erin Quon
and Kim Konecny, pages 117, 180, and 221
(Photo) Betterbaking.com Custom Made Clock by John Borin www.JohnBorin.com
Books by Marcy Goldman
Marcy Goldman is a cookbook author, master baker and host of
www.Betterbaking.com and www.MarcyGoldman.com. Her publishing imprint is
River Heart Press, Montreal, Canada. In addition, she has published with Random
House U.S. and Canada, Doubleday Books, Ten Speed Press and Oxmoor House.
Inquires may be sent to [email protected] or via www.Betterbaking.com.
Best Biscotti, 2017 River Heart Press
The 10th Anniversary Edition of Treasury of Jewish
Holiday Baking, 2017 River Heart Press
Best Holiday Cookies 2016
The Baker’s Four Seasons 2014, River Heart Press
A Passion for Baking, 2014 River Heart Press
Love and Ordinary Things, 2014 River Heart Press
When Baker Cook, 2013 River Heart Press
A Treasury of Jewish Holiday Baking, 2007
The New Best of Betterbaking.com, 2007 Whitecap Books
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Goldman, Marcy
The New Best of Betterbaking.com/Marcy Goldman.
ISBN 978-1-927936-24-5
1. Baking l. Title.
Dedicated, with much love,
to my three sons, Jonathan,
Gideon, and Benjamin

Contents
Preface to the New Edition | ix
Acknowledgments | xi
Introduction | 1
The BetterBaking.com Test Kitchen | 5
1 The Bread Board,
or Yeast y Tales | 23
2 Small Loaves and Rolls | 61
3 Rustic Pizzas and Flatbreads | 83
4 The Corner Café | 109
5 The Cookie and Biscotti Jar | 139
6 Scone and Muffin Mania | 177
7 The Pastry Shoppe | 213
8 The Cake Walk | 249
Source Guide | 299
Index | 313
Metric Conversions | 323

ix
Preface to the New Edition
DEAR FELLOW BAKERS AND FRIENDS OF the fact that countless agents and editors just said,
BETTERBAKING.COM, “No way,” when I pitched a classic cookbook based
on something as edgy as a web baking magazine. To
Welcome to the Bett erBaking.com test kitchen. If you the naysayers I simply said, “Yes, way!” Th is was long
are new, you’re in for a treat. If you are a returning before the power of positive thinking found its way
baking friend, then I’m delighted to off er you a brand into such books as . I suppose my vision,
Th e Secret
new, photo-packed, recipe-fortifi ed (more than 30 new born in print, transferred to cyberspace and then back
ones!) cookbook. is onto the printed page, was not to be detoured. Never
Th e Best of Bett erBaking.com
back—and it’s bett er than ever. stop a baker on a tear.
What a diff erence a new millennium makes, It’s been over a decade since the launch of my
esp ecially in launching a new edition of a very sp ecial website, and almost that same passage of time since
cookbook—with the words “dot-com” in its title. Th e the original companion cookbook,
Th e Best of
fi rst and original edition of this cookbook had its , was fi rst found in stores and places
Bett erBaking.com
2002 debut during the relative infancy of the Internet. like Amazon.com. As the Internet has evolved and
Years before, in May 1997, my website of the same websites have become beyond commonplace—in
name fi rst appeared online. Th e original name of the fact, most of us rely on the Net for almost any and
website was actually Baker Boulanger; Bett erBaking everything—this glorious new edition,
Th e New Best
.com was its  (or its Internet address). However, , is fi nally right on time, and right
of Bett erBaking.com
in very short time, Bett erBaking.com—or “BB” as at home in what is now the comfortable fusion of
it became aff ectionately known by my visitors and technology and lifestyle. It represents a handcraft ed
subscribers—became both the unoffi cial name of distillation of my own best original recipes I’ve created
my online baking magazine and, later, of my unique for my website since 1997. It includes both my personal
cookbook. favorites and the most popular recipes (the ones with
It’s hard to believe, but the proposal for this the most “hits”).
cookbook had everyone, including many publishers, Of course, both the Internet and the iBaker (me!)
claim that it was too ahead of its time. Not to mention have changed. Today, recipes fl it around
evenfast er