Tarts and Pies by Maggie Mayhew
This work contains a selection of fantastic sweet and savoury recipes with over 100 beautiful colour photographs. It explores the art of making tarts and pastries and provides all the essential information for making successful pastry. It includes recipes for all types of pastry from shortcrust and puff to choux, filo and strudel, and offers practical advice on preparing fillings, glazes and sauces. It provides illustrated step-by-step instructions for kneading, shaping and trimming techniques. Whether it is a fruit tart, a savoury starter or a homemade game pie, pastry is one of the most versatile and delicious ingredients to cook with. This book explores the many possibilities of pastry cooking, with mouth-watering ideas for fillings and sauces and how to get the most important ingredient - your pastry - just right. As well as easy-to-follow recipes such as simple shortcrust pies, there are also recipes for puff, choux, filo, strudel and hot-water crust and essential information on baking time and temperatures as well as ideas for fillings, sauces and glazes. It includes plenty of tips, ideas and tricks of the trade to ensure that your finished tart, pie or starter turns out just right! A little book full of big ideas, this is a must-have for any budding pastry chef.
Maggie Mayhew is a full-time freelance cookery writer and home economist, contributing to several national women's magazines. Previously she was Cookery Editor of Home Magazine and Deputy Food and Wine Editor of Living magazine. She now lives in the country and spends her spare time tending a large allotment which produces fresh organic fruit and vegetables for use in her recipes all year round. Other published works by Maggie Mayhew include The World Encylcopedia of Fruit and Preserves (both Lorenz Books), Piece of Cake (Barron's), and Whip (Laurel Glen Publishing)
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| ISBN 13 | 9780754816959 |
| ISBN 10 | 0754816958 |
| Title | Tarts and Pies |
| Author | Maggie Mayhew |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Anness Publishing |
| Year published | 2006-06-30 |
| Number of pages | 64 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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