Product Description

Tired of complicated baking recipes that call for expensive equipment, complicated techniques, and hard-to-find ingredients? Baking, Unplugged comes to the rescue with a collection of simple, back-to-basics recipes for everything from muffins and breakfast pastries to cookies, pies, cakes, and puddings. These are baked goods just like grandma used to make, made from scratch with basic ingredients and standard kitchen equipment. The book includes 114 recipes in all, as well as basic instruction on ingredients, how to read a recipe, and how to set up an "Unplugged Kitchen." Recipe chapters include Treats for the First Half of the Day; Cookies and Bars; Cakes; Fruit Pies, Fruit Tarts, and More; and Creamy Desserts. The recipes include favorites such as Blueberry Muffins, Uncommonly Good Pancakes, Sour Cream Crumb Cake, Peanut Butter Molasses Cookies, Caramel Turtle Bars, Moist Vanilla Pound Cake, Cherry-Berry Pie, Classic Tiramisu, and Anytime Bread Pudding, and many are illustrated in a 16-page full-color insert.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #163704 in Books
• Published on: 2009-01-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00" h x 8.25" w x 9.50" l, 1.79 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 272 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780470149119
• Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
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Customer Reviews

Basic, fun and wonderful
I heard about this book through the Splendid Table and, as usual, Lynne Rossetto Kasper was not wrong. Nicole Rees complies and updates some favorites from her kitchen. As she points out in the introduction, as a professional foodie, she has a million gizmos and gadgets in her kitchen, but it is the simple, no fuss recipes she turns to when she wants comfort foods that make her kitchen whole.

And these recipes provide a lot of comfort!

Already, thanks to Ms. Rees, I have ordered Lyle's Golden Syrup so I can make better ANZAC cookies. For the ones I made from her recipe (pg 99), I substituted Agave Nectar. They were great, but I wonder if the Lyle's will make them even better. Tomorrow, I will find out. I also made her PB&C Brownies today, which define "decadent" in a dessert.

I've used my great-grandmother's spoon to make some of the recipes, and I've used my Kitchenaid mixer on a few. In the short time I have had this book, I have done a lot of baking. With the subzero temperatures we have been experiencing, the baking has been a balm to my soul. My kids are thrilled with the treats, my husband is happy and I am really enjoying myself in the kitchen again. Rees's recipes focus on the simple joys of baking and eating, which is a welcomed break from some of the overly complex cookbooks out there.

I can see Baking Unplugged becoming a well-worn family favorite.

Love it!
I bought this to console myself over my disappointment with the Baked cookbook - I wish I had just bought this in the first place. The recipes are simple yet delicious; nothing extremely fancy or difficult, but many recipes are nice enough that I can serve them to company. I only wish there were pictures to accompany the fabulous recipes.

Baking Unplugged
This book is a joy own, to read and the recipes are certain to melt in your mouth.Baking Unplugged