The Pastry Chef’s Apprentice

Learn how to make perfect delicious pastry at home with expert help from the pros. Get insider’s access to chefs’ recipes, kitchen wisdom, and top-notch expertise in this beautifully illustrated handbook. Includes interview with 17 expert pastry chefs that share trade secrets, tutorials on pastry techniques such as proper dough mixing, shaping crusts, testing sugar syrups all with 22 completely illustrated professional recipes for pastry creams, tart crusts, puff pastry, mousse, macaroons and more. Plus an in-depth guide to all the ingredients you’ll need. No where else can you find this wealth of information - except culinary school! Mitch Stamm, durable softcover, color photos, 176 pages, ©2011.