Chocolates and confections

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• Vindicis · Oct 1, 2018 · Recommends

  …baking: The Professional Pastry Chef: Fundamentals of Baking and Pastry by Bo Friesberg or Baking And Pastry: Mastering The Art And Craft from The Culinary Institute of America. Either or. Confections: Chocolates and Confections by Peter Greweling. Bread: Either Jeffrey Hamelman Bread: A Baker's book of techniques and recipes or Peter Reinhart The Bread Baker's Apprentice. Reference: Dictionary Of Flavors. Literally a Dictionary…

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• Glant · Oct 17, 2023 · Recommends

  Chocolates & Confections by Peter P. Greweling. It's full of recipes, but more importantly there are large sections of information about how the cooking process actually works, how each ingredient effects the end result, why things like excess humidity can cause things to not set, etc.

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• joshvm · Jan 6, 2025 · Recommends

  …supplemented by some genuine research. In practice, I feel like getting better pourover is 90% about finding beans that you like, buying a quality grinder and using them while fresh. For confectionery, Chocolates and Confections (Greweling, Culinary Institute of America), 2013, ISBN 978-1-118-76467-1 is a fun book. It's quite pricey but you can pick up used copies now and again. It's a technical book and requires a lot of equipment…

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• kayson · Mar 18, 2021 · Mentions

  …eloquently describes the experience I had when searching for an Iranian cookbook. We ended up settling on the Batmanglij, which really is as much a textbook as it is a cookbook. It reminds me of something like Chocolates and Confections (Greweling & Culinary Institute of America), which focuses on fundamentals in addition to recipes. I found that Batmanglij exhaustively covered the meals we had as a first-generation immigrant family…

  on “The Savor of Memory – A Review Essay on Iranian Cookbooks” ↗