Baking Style: Art Craft Recipes

528 Pages·2011·9.96 MB·English

by  Lisa Yockelson

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Yockelson, Lisa.
Baking Style / Lisa Yockelson.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-470-43702-5 (cloth)
1. Baking. I. Title.
TX763.Y63145 2011
641.8’15--dc22
2010013160
Printed in China
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
photography by Ben Fink
design by Mucca Design
baking for photography by the author
all of the fabrics, embroidered linens, paper materials, collectibles, china, and glass are from the author’s collection
on-site visual china, glassware, and paper selection by the author
creative exploration by the author with Pamela Chirls, executive editor, culinary arts, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
computer technical support for the author by John George
linen embroidery for the author by Jean-Pierre Jousse of La Broderie Internationale
this baking diary is dedicated to
the life and times of my mother
Irene Ida Understine Yockelson
January 1, 1917—June 13, 1980
for the remarkable buttermilk chocolate cake
recipe, the memory of the meringue gâteau of
many layers cemented to the baking pans, and
the babka that broke the garbage disposal
Contents
withGratitude x mellow 53
bakingStylePrelude xii apple cake, maple butter glaze 55
an introduction to cultivating maple butter glaze 56
your own baking style bright, not perky 57
bakingElements xiv orange and bourbon: cake, saturated 59
clarified butter 1 orange and honey: sunshine rolls, orange glaze 60
vanilla-scented sugar 2 orange glaze 61
intensified vanilla extract 3 revisiting a cookie 62
bakingCraft 4 butter dough, personalized in chocolate 64
bakingProcess 4 sweetly tart 65
the language of Baking Style 12 lemon cake, sublime and divine, lemony
Baking Style terminology 12 sugar wash with glazed lemon threads 67
bakingShapeStructureForm 18 lemony sugar wash with glazed lemon threads 68
basics for preparation, finishing, the lemon cake that won’t go away (updated),
and establishing quantity 19 lemon soaking glaze, lemon pour 69
art of mixing 20 lemon soaking glaze 70
shaping tools 22 lemon pour 70
bakeware that creates form 24 the morning belongs to cinnamon 71
distributing and sweeping 28 butter+cinnamon+sugar=cake 73
a good rest and a thoughtful lift 29 cinnamon buttermilk butter dips 74
craft of decorating 30 zesty, spicy, sweet 75
molasses crinkles 77
bakingStorybook pastperfect
33 78
a baking life 35 a baking memento 79
forever brownies 37 keepsake cookies: “california” mandel breit, lisa’s mandel breit 81
“california” mandel breit 81
lisa’s mandel breit 82
pureflavor biscotti2: languorous afternoon almond cookies
38

for dipping and its going-boldly-into-almond cousin 83
almond essence 39 biscotti #1 83
a noble marzipan cake 41 biscotti #2 84
little almond cakes 42 a holiday ritual, dozen upon dozen 86
marzipan scones 43 roll out those cookies 88
blueberries, melding and melting 44 blushing birthday girl 89
a gentle blueberry buckle 45 vanilla cupcakes, pink frosting 91
special blueberry cakes 46 pink frosting 92
blueberry breakfast cake 48 coconut queen 93
butterluscious 49 an indulgent coconut cake 94
majesticbread: luxury rolls 51 brown sugar-coconut cookies 97
granddaughter’s bread, grandmother’s cake 98 cookies, untamed 154
hot milk bread 100 larger-than-life, chunky-bulky
vanilla milk cake 102 bittersweet chocolate praline cookies 156
learning to knead 103 fudge griddled 157
a 14-year-old’s rolls still tasty cocoa waffles, very bittersweet
after all these years 105 chocolate cream spread 159
motherlove 107 very bittersweet chocolate cream spread 160
the don’t-dispute-your-mother cake 108 lacking restraint 161
favorite chocolate sheet cake, to the memory of alice 110 date bars deluxe, big and crazy chewy 163
date tart-cakes 164
dewy torte 165
plainold-fashioned little muffins, sauced 167
112
chocolate chip muffinettes, satiny chocolate overlay 169
a chocolate blanket 113 rough and tumble, moist and sensual 171
chocolate comfort cake, creamy chocolate frosting 115 craggy-top sour cream buns, vanilla streusel 173
creamy chocolate frosting 116 vanilla streusel 174
bananarama 117 seductive times two 175
a gentle banana cake 118 edge-of-darkness bars 176
banana tea loaf 119 confection brownies 178
a big banana cake 120 fry happy 179
freckled 122 cake doughnut strips 181
chocolate chip cake 124 glazed risers, vanilla-maple galze 182
more-than-the-kitchen-sink 125 vanilla-maple glaze 184
lady bountiful cookies 127 beignets soufflés 184
peanuts reign 128
navigating the peanut butter cookie 130
quite golden 131 dreamyregal
186
cornbread two ways: muffins, pan 133
muffins 133 a golden ring of cake 187
pan 134 savarin, well-nourished: imbibing syrup,
streaky, moist, and messy 135 apricot glaze, sweetened cream 189
dirty cake 137 imbibing syrup 190
the aroma of plain 138 apricot glaze 191
exquisite cake 140 sweetened cream 191
nutmeg nostalgia: a sentimental butter cake 141 all tucked in 192
sunday bread 142 chocolate babka 194
soft cloverleaf rolls, cozy and warm 144 “brownie” babka 196
cardamom buns that (almost) levitate 146 babka pan twist 198
cinnamon babka morning cake 200
bouffant 202
verynaughty parmesan and gruyère popovers 204
148
cinnamon breakfast popovers 205
chocolate, and a lot of it, in the right place 149 egg whites to the nth degree 206
a nice, untidy torte, #1 151 monster vanilla meringues 208
a nice, untidy torte, #2 152 finally, after all these years 210
stirred custard 153 cheesecake deluxe 213
in the round, fluted 215 a fresh fig and pastry jamboree 272
butter cake bread 217 rustic fig tart 274
undone 219 inflated and cream-filled, inflated in a savory way 276
a relaxed trifle, no construction necessary: vanilla cream clouds with soft vanilla center 278
cake, custard to pour, fruit and cream 221 soft vanilla center 280
cake 221 cheese clouds 281
custard to pour 222 loopy 282
fruit and cream 222 bubble bread 284
jammy 223 soda “pop” 286
sweet sandwiches: apricot-filled nut cookies 224 raisin soda bread, sweetly 288
jam tart 225 lush whole wheat soda bread 289
twisted 290
a yeasty, cinnamon-entwined pastry 292
textureexquisite
228 flat and puffy 295
a flatbread busy with cheese 296
awfully sticky 229
a sugared-up flatbread 298
rich, richer, richest sticky buns 231
crispycrunchycookie 233
riot-of-ingredients breakup 235
intensebold
gritty but good 236 300
corn meal and cherry dipping cookies 238
a delicious crumble 301
corn meal tea cake 239
hint-of-salt shortbread, the restrained version 302
on the side, but maybe not 240
wildly lush hint-of-salt lavender shortbread,
the perfect “side-dish” cookie 242
the unrestrained version 303
seriously seeking chewy and plump 243
bold, buttery, and basic shortbread 306
almond macaroons in an embrace of flavor and texture 245
a rough-hewn cookie 307
so tender 246
cupcakes, gilded 308
vanilla jewels, just like sandies 248
candy-crunched golden cupcakes:
pecan gems 249
golden cupcakes, golden frosting,
chocolate chip sablés 249
golden popcorn croquant 310
irene’s slice-and-bake sugar cookies 250
golden frosting 311
tender is the bread 252
golden popcorn croquant 312
featherbed bread 254
sweet finance 314
simple but good hot rolls 256
financiers 316
cake for breakfast—oh my! 258
rustic almond macaroon buns 318
morning butter slice 260
in the spirit of 320
cookies that vaporize 261
moist and chewy fruit slice 322
almond crescents 263
not dainty 324
ginger buttons 264
coconutextreme: macaroons, with chocolate 326
lemon melties 265
really spicy 327
a cookie dough with history 329
contourfanciful royal icing 331
266
food color powder application for
winter bread 267 decorating royal icing–coated cookies 331
bread for dessert, bread for cheese: fruit bread 268 to the brim 332
bread for soup: favorite grainy pan rolls 269 luxury cake, sparkly and nutty 334
one way or the other 335 coconut butter balls 387
a delightful brunch cake, two ways: aroma-of-cinnamon minties 388
cake, take one; aroma-of-cinnamon cake, take two 336 not a bowl of hot oatmeal 389
aroma-of-cinnamon cake, take one 336 “oatmeal raisin cookie” scones 390
aroma-of-cinnamon cake, take two 337 “oatmeal raisin cookie” morning rolls 391
tipping the scale on chocolate 340 vanilla icing 392
dark shadows 342 sticks, rounds, and hearts 394
waffle batons and hearts 396
pancake rounds, griddled 397
polishedsophisticated
344 thin and jam-packed 398
crêpes, slathered 400
cookies that cast a butter spell 345
zoom! 401
butter and sugar cookies 347
gossamer potato rolls 403
a cake for twenty-four hours 349
butter-striated potato rolls 405
oily cake 351
blond, beautiful (of texture), and brown sugary 407
candied orange peel 353
blondie cake 409
sweet bread tart 354
alluring 410
a regal breakfast bread 356
a very vanilla bread 412
chocolate dressed for autumn 358
pumpkin cake, with chips 360
cultured 361
lushexuberant
all-praise-the-virtues-of-sour-cream cake 363 414
the butter cake challenge 364
a liberal use of toffee 415
center stage butter cake 366
brown sugar toffee cake 417
cake with maximum heft—and the delicacy of cardamom 367
formula for excess 418
syrupy red wine prunes 368
sweet-surplus-of-chocolate cookies 420
the royal treatment 369
high-volume chocolate 421
two kinds of madeleines: lemon soakers,
a what-you-can-do-with-a-pound-of-
chocolate dunkers, and liquid chocolate 370
good-chocolate cake, chocolate darkness 423
lemon soakers 370
chocolate darkness 424
chocolate dunkers 371
hundreds of cookies later 425
liquid chocolate 372
twice as good cookies, #1 sugar and #2 sugar 427
whirly and twirly 374
#1 sugar 427
an aristocratic raisin bread 376
#2 sugar 428
rolled and folded 429
comfycozy sugar love knots 431
378
stand tall 434
a sweet soaking 379 fruit bread, ginger preserve glaze 436
rose water babas, rose water syrup 381 a savory nibble 438
rose water syrup 382 appetizer bread 440
fresh-ahead 383
a quartet of cookie doughs that survives cold storage:
oatmeal cookies—bundled up; toffee, dried cherry, and downhome
442
bittersweet chocolate gems; coconut butter balls; minties 385
oatmeal cookies—bundled up 385 nothing fancy 443
toffee, dried cherry, and bittersweet chocolate gems 386 the cinnamon-raisin buns of my childhood, #1 445
the cinnamon-raisin buns of my childhood, #2 447 melty, lush: empowered-with-
a simple sweet roll icing 448 bittersweet-chocolate 476
biscuits without apology 449 wild ones 477
thistledown biscuits 451 just for fun 478
enduring buttermilk biscuits 452 sweet vanilla pretzel ties 480
enduring pan biscuits 453 flavored, dropped 482
biscuits and a pile of fruit: summer shortcakes— corn meal and cranberry drop biscuits 484
as in rich cream dough, buttered peaches, drop biscuits, spice cake–style 485
blueberry compote, vanilla cream topping 454 buttery cream drop biscuits 486
buttered peaches 455 miniature cream drop biscuit muffinettes 487
blueberry compote 455 establishing a tradition 488
vanilla cream topping 456 “roasted chicken” rolls, #1 490
ginger, front and center 457 “roasted chicken” rolls, #2 491
a snuggly gingerbread tea cake,
lemon butter, gingered cream 459
lemon butter 460 bakingStorybookEpilogue
493
gingered cream 461
gingered pumpkin squares for the breadbasket 462 every last crumb 494
streusel overload 463 a snazzy bittersweet chocolate tea bread 497
scones-to-the-max 464
a decadent streusel coffee cake 467
friendship baking 468 bakingDiary 499
a gift of bread 470 scrapbooking your baking memories 499
bundles of joy 472 bakingSelectedSources 500
melting for chocolate chip cookies 474 bakingBibliography 503
when chocolate chip cookies go butterscotch 475 bakingStyleIndex 506
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