Baker's Manual (5th Edition)

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Summary: A MUST for any baking Enthusiast!
Review: As a student currently enrolled in a Professional Baking and Pastry Program, I can say this book is a MUST. It provides information for both the recreational and professional baker.

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Summary: Every baker NEEDS this book.
Review: I started a bakery/deli in 1993 using a professional baker and this book as my foundation. In time I also learned to use advice from my customers and from other pros. Still, the whole lot of the experts, save one, gave less useful information than did this classic by Joseph Amendola.

Theories of dough fermentation and the like are of especial importance for any new baker. When something goes wrong, too, this book has a good trouble-shooting section.

I heartily recommend this book to any baker, commercial or men and women trying to please their loved ones.

Other books you should add to the shelf are Professional Baking and Quantity Cooking.

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Summary: Bread can be exciting!!!
Review: The Baker's Manual is a book that anyone who is serious about baking should have! It has all the foundational information that you could need and then some. If I could only have one book about baking, this would be my choice!!!

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Summary: A must have!
Review: The Baker's Manual is a book that anyone who is serious about baking should have! It has all the foundational information that you could need and then some. If I could only have one book about baking, this would be my choice!!!

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Summary: Bread can be exciting!!!
Review: This book truly makes bread and the hows and whys of baking exciting. It offers information covering the scope of baking: from simple to complex. It provides formulas and oh so many recipes. Definitely a keeper.