The gingerbread house is fun! Lots of photographs take you step-by-step through the process of making and decorating a gingerbread house. There are recipes for the gingerbread and royal icing, a footprint to copy to cut the components of the house out and then the fun part-decorating!
One would not know there were so many cute ways with candy, cookies and frosting to decorate a house. There are even different themes to decorate for, such as, Easter houses and birthday houses. Who knew!
Mastering Sauces is altogether a more serious book. At 425 pages, this is the definitive book for sauces. Not only are there fundaments of sauce making, the author goes into making stocks, broths, reductions and turning whole foods into sauces. Library Journal Review says "Volland is a trained chef who served as an editorial assistant for the six-book masterwork Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking. Here she provides thoughtful and in-depth coverage of modern sauce-making fundamentals, teaching readers to maximize flavor, season confidently, and navigate cooking vocabulary (they'll know when their sauce is mucilaginous). Discussing cooking temperatures, reduction times, thickening agents, and troubleshooting tips, Volland expertly answers the technical and scientific questions most readers will have." So get your balloon whisks out and go. M.L.
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