Author: Heatter, Maida
Title: Book of Great Desserts
Publisher: Random House
Place Pub: New York
Date Pub: 1974
Edition: first ed (with the recipe for lemon buttermilk cake)
ISBN: 0394491114
Pages: 442
Binding: Hardback
Condition: VERY GOOD very good dj
Illustrator: Toni Evins
Book Id: MAIN004719I
Details: Introduction, index
Summary: Maida Heatter's first book, the book of great desserts that has become a basic cookery classic.
As creator of prize-winning New York Times recipes, as dessert cook for Miami Beach's Inside restaurant during the years when it was owned by her husband, as winner of notable baking contests, as teacher of her own enormously popular cooking classes, Maida Heatter (she is Gabriel's daughter) has long been admired by the cooking community not only for the marvelous desserts she herself has created and for her mastery of the classic dessert cuisine (both amply represented here) but for her unusual ability to guide and reassure the most timid novice (she will say, for example, "Mixture might look curdled at this point O.K."). Follow her clear, step-by-step directions, and it will come out exactly as she says it will.
Try: "plain" pound cake, Glaceed Strawberries, Black Velvet, Benne Seed Wafers, Raspberry-Strawberry BavarianChocolate-Mocha Mousse-Soufflé, Walnut Fudge Pie a la Mode with Hot Fudge Sauce, Dobosh Torte, Moosehead Gingerbread, Honey Parfait, Scotch Walnut Shortbread, Chocolate Ribbons, etc.