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ENGLISH BREAD AND YEAST COOKERY, American Edition with Notes By Karen Hess
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ENGLISH BREAD AND YEAST COOKERY, American Edition with Notes By Karen Hess Hardcover - 1980

by DAVID, Elizabeth

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NY: The Viking Press, 1980. (USA) Book club edition. No markings, faint discolorations to leading edge of pages, thus Good in Good dust jacket with a touch of rubbing to edges of the dJ; DJ is in mylar sleeve. Llight tan boards, black spine, illus endpapers, xxxii, 592pp, index. 24 B&W illustrations. David took 5 years of research to write this almost scholarly but emmensely readable book on the history and traditions of bread baking and yeast cookery. There are informative essays on flour types, the merits of various ovens, the miracle of yeast. The 200 or so recipes have American equivalents and range from a six-page discussion of the basic loaf to the complexities of French puff pastry. In addition Karen Hess worked closely with David to prepare this American edition and has provided an introduction in which she praises the wrok as a model of "intellectual integrity". The sources of all the recipes are given and there is a comprehensive bibliography. (3.1 JM HOZ 402/4. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Good/Good. Illus. by JOnes, Wendy. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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  • Title ENGLISH BREAD AND YEAST COOKERY, American Edition with Notes By Karen Hess
  • Author DAVID, Elizabeth
  • Illustrator JOnes, Wendy
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 592
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher The Viking Press, NY
  • Date 1980
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 06696
  • ISBN 9780670296538 / 0670296538
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 78012553
  • Dewey Decimal Code 641.815

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