Understanding and applying food science to the bakeshop-now revised and updated How Baking Works, Second Edition thoroughly covers the entire baking process, emphasizing the "whys" at work behind basic techniques. The book takes the user through the major ingredient groups, explaining how sweeteners, fats, milk, leavening agents, and other ingredients affect the appearance, flavor, and texture of the end product. The coverage also includes scaling and measurements, heat transfer, and sensory properties in baking. This ...
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Understanding and applying food science to the bakeshop-now revised and updated How Baking Works, Second Edition thoroughly covers the entire baking process, emphasizing the "whys" at work behind basic techniques. The book takes the user through the major ingredient groups, explaining how sweeteners, fats, milk, leavening agents, and other ingredients affect the appearance, flavor, and texture of the end product. The coverage also includes scaling and measurements, heat transfer, and sensory properties in baking. This revised and updated Second Edition features: * Hands-on exercises and experiments at the end of each chapter, with many involving the sensory evaluation of ingredients * Expanded coverage of sweeteners, variety grains, enzymes, starch structure and gelatinization, and gluten structure * Important coverage of changes to federal laws, such as food allergen labeling * Coverage reflecting consumer awareness of nutrition and health, including information on dietary fiber, trans fats, and trans-free fats in the baking context * More photographs to illustrate the science of baking * End-of-chapter questions that both review content and require readers to apply and synthesize what they've learned How Baking Works, Second Edition offers a dynamic, hands-on learning experience to both practicing and future bakers and pastry chefs.
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Fair. An acceptable and readable copy. All pages are intact, and the spine and cover are also intact. This item may have light highlighting, writing or underlining through out the book, curled corners, missing dust jacket and or stickers.
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Photographs/Charts/Diagrams/Conversions. Near Fine. Paperback. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Former owner's return address label on title page along the upper edge (does NOT affect the text), else textblock very clean and tight; All edges are straight and sound; Small peel to the front bottom edge near the outer corner. 399pp., including bibliography and index.
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