Baking Chefs

Ingredients & Directions 3 oz Almond paste 1/3 c Granulated sugar 1/2 c Butter softened to room -temperature 2 Eggs 3/4 c Hazelnuts; roasted and -ground 1 ts Vanilla 1 Prepared 9 inch tart shell 1/2 c Chocolate; melted 4 Firm-ripe USA Anjou pears; -peeled, cored, and Sliced about 1/4 inch thick 1 Lemon; juiced […]

Ingredients & Directions 4 c Unbleached Flour 2 tb Salt 2 tb Sugar 4 c Lukewarm Potato Water Put all ingredients in a crock or large jar and let stand in a warm place uncovered several days. This is the authors last choice for making a starter, but seems to be in all the cookbooks […]

Ingredients & Directions 1 x Unbleached Flour 1 x Potato Water Boil some potatoes for supper, save the potato water, and use it lukewarm with enough unbleached flour to make a thick batter. without yeast. This is a good way to make it in camp, where you have no yeast available and want fast results. […]

Ingredients & Directions -CRUST- 1 c Toasted whole almonds 1 c Sugar 1 tb All purpose flour 1 ts Instant coffee powder 1 lg Egg white plus 1 tablespoon -egg white 2 ts Vanilla extract -DARK CHOCOLATE FILLING- 5 tb Whipping cream 2 tb Unsalted butter; (1/4 stick) 1 tb Light corn syrup 1 tb […]

Ingredients & Directions 2 c Unbleached Flour 1 x Warm Milk To Make Thick Bat. This starter is the same as starter #2 but uses warm Milk instead of water. Use the same instructions. Yields 1 Servings

Ingredients & Directions FOR THE PASTRY 250 g Plain flour 150 g Chilled diced unsalted -butter 5 tb Icing sugar Finely grated rind of 1 -lemon 1 lg Egg 2 ts Water; (if necessary) FOR THE FILLING 8 tb Lemon juice 1 1/3 c Sugar 8 lg Eggs 1/2 c Marscarpone 3/4 c Heavy or […]

Ingredients & Directions 2 c Unbleached Flour 1 x Water To Make Thick Batter Mix flour and water to make a thick batter. Let stand uncovered for four or five days, or until it begins working. This basic recipe requires a carefully scalded container. Yields 1 Servings

Ingredients & Directions -CRUST- 1 1/4 c Flour 1/4 c Shortening 1/4 c Unsalted butter 1/2 ts Salt 6 tb Cold water FILLING 5 c Seasonal berries; cleaned 1 c Sugar 1 ts Cinnamon 1/2 ts Allspice; nutmeg, and ginger 1 ts Vanilla 1/4 c Flour 1 Lemon; Zest of TOPPING 1/3 c Sugar 1/4 […]

Ingredients & Directions 2 c Flour 2 c Water 1 Yeast 1/4 c Sugar 1 c Milk 1 c Flour SOURDOUGH STARTER Combine flour, yeast and water. Let stand in a warm place at least 12 hours. Add: sugar, milk, and flour. Mix thouroughly. Set in refridgerator until ready to use in recipe. After taking […]

Ingredients & Directions 1 Recipe pate brisee; (recipe -follows) 3/4 Stick unsalted butter; -softened (6 ; tablespoons) 1/2 c Sugar 1 lg Egg 3/4 c Blanched almonds; ground -fine 1 ts Almond extract 1 tb Amaretto 1 tb All-purpose flour 2 c Strawberries; hulled 2 c Raspberries; picked over and ; rinsed 1/4 c Strawberry […]