Professional Baking by Wayne Gisslen

This is the write up of the above book.

Wayne Gisslen's Professional Cooking and Professional Baking textbooks have educated hundreds of thousands of students and professional chefs. This new 5th edition of Professional Baking continues to provide comprehensive coverage of the basics—bread making and cake mixing—and provides enhanced coverage of higher level techniques—pastry, chocolate, sugar work. The formulas were developed to help you learn, then polish, your baking and pastry skills. This new edition also features a new software package through which you can create your own formulas and modify those in the text. Presenting professional techniques, formulas, ideas, and inspiration from renowned chef educators, Gisslen's Professional Baking is the essential kitchen tool for those who want to take their baking and pastry skills to the next level. Explore this website to discover additional baking and pastry resources to enhance your experience in the classroom or the professional kitchen.





New to this Edition:

• New chapter on Baking for Special Diets, including low-fat, low-sugar, gluten-free, and dairy-free diets.

• This edition is packaged with new laminated method cards featuring step-by-step instructions of the key methods used in creating yeast doughs, quick breads, cakes and cookies.

• Close to 900 formulas – 24 are completely new to this edition and dozens more have been revised and improved.

• Includes new sidebars explaining the history and cultural background of various bakery products, as well as details concerning specialty equipment, ingredients, nutrition, and other topics of interest.

• More than 100 new photographs of finished dishes, techniques and product identification.

• New recipe and formula management software package, Wiley CulinarE-Companion™, features user-friendly navigation, flexibility, and robust content.

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Peter Greweling's "Chocolate & Confections At Home'

Salam semua,

Kalau ada yg berminat akan buku tersebut, sila email kak ainee.

Harga MPH : RM123.

Kak Ainee dah dapat harga yg special ...  RM 105 (tidak termasuk harga penghantaran). Ini pun kerana sokongan yg diberi oleh member2  dari homechoc group... terima kasih kepada semua yg telah order..

Below is the write up on the book. Nanti kalau boleh, akan saya minta tolong Dr Rahimah untuk review the book.

Write- up:-

Chocolates and Confections at Home with The Culinary Institute of America



Peter P. Greweling, The Culinary Institute of America (CIA)

The home candy maker's guide to creating stunning chocolates and confections


Chocolates and Confections at Home offers detailed expertise for anyone who wants to make truly amazing homemade confections and candies. The Culinary Institute of America and baking and pastry arts professor Peter Greweling provide recipes and step-by-step techniques that make even the most ambitious treats simple for any home cook.



In addition, Chocolates and Confections at Home includes ingredient and equipment information, packaging and storage practices, and troubleshooting tips for common preparation issues.



Richly illustrated with more than 150 full-color photos that illustrate key techniques as well as finished confections

Covers chocolates, truffles, toffees and taffies, fudge and pralines, marshmallows, jellies, nuts, and much more

Author Peter Greweling is a professor of baking and pastry arts at the CIA, as well as a Certified Master Baker and Certified Hospitality Educator

Chocolates and Confections at Home is the ideal resource for anyone who wants to graduate from chocolate chip cookies to create impressively decadent delights.

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My First Cartoon Character Cake -- Spongebob

Sarah Ilyana , my second niece, turned ten in January but I could only give her her cake in Feb. After discussing with her mother, it was agreed that I would TRY and make a Spongebob cake. As always, reality always hit me after I agree to something... this time, I went "YIKES..... I dont even like that cartoon...and I have NEVER made a cartoon character cake out of fondant before...

But make the cake I must, especially after I have given her sister, Farah, those fantastic minicakes (thanks, Adlina again).. and so I tried. But first, my husband helped me by cutting the cake to size. I just needed to cover it in fondant in the appropriate colours and design.

Surprisingly, as I figured my way around the cake, I got more and more excited.. especially as I put the face together... the character seemed to jump out and say 'HI, its me.. Spongebob'. Actually got nods of approvals from the men and boys in the family.... my husband, my sons and newly adopted employee-turned-son.

The rewards came in Sarah's expressions... she went 'Eeeeeeee....' and shook her head. That's her typical reaction to great happiness... trust me... the feeling was ''WOW'' for me..

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My Second Class

Second Class…..


Second class had a student coming all the back from Kluang – Anita. She was willing to travel so far just to learn… within a week, she was already making a small business out of selling the fruit tarts I taught her…. The feeling of achievement was great…. Teaching does has its rewards…

In this class, I had to conduct in both BM and Mandarin… there was one lady who didn’t understand BM… surprise…. surprise…

Anyway, ask the students to come up and try for themselves to mould the tart… after a few calls, only one came up…. Then slowly slowly about 5 to 6 of them came up to my table… the rest later came up but tengok tengok saja.

My assistant… my son, Afiq, tested the coconut tarts for doneness. He inserted the tester, turned around and said ok. Then he closed the oven door and left the tarts to continue baking …. Until someone reminded me about them… luckily they were just turning a nice brown and not burnt…. That’s Afiq lah….

Next Class…..

27th Feb 2010…. Puff Pastry --- demo on how to make puff pastry from scratch…
28th Feb 2010…..Durian --- Durian Fudge (guarantee best sekali) dan Durian Mousse.

See you there…..

Note : For now, I am teaching at HOI selayang… will teach at another place soon.. cannot announce yet..

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My First Class

The First Jitters ---- of an Instructor



I finally picked up the courage to start conducting my very first class. Actually, the fear is not from the teaching itself (afterall, I am a trained teacher with 10 years of experience) but more so the fear of having to conduct it in BM. Sad to say, my command of mandarin is better than that of the BM; I went to a convent school while studying in Singapore, took Mandarin as a second language and on top of that, I was often the only Malay girl in the class. Anyway, with lots of encouragement from my husband, sons and lots of newfound friends here and a challenge from an old time friend, Kak Norsini , I finally conducted my very first class. It was a demo class in Handmade Chocolates.

That morning, EVERYBODY got scolded for anything they did esp. my poor hubby….. the poor guy apologized and merely nodded and smiled until he finally dropped me off at the venue of the class. It was only after class that when he congratulated me on a job well done did he finally teased me about my seemingly unseen panic…. “Gara-gara, nak kena mengajar dalam BM, habis semua kena marah... OK pun… kelas… semua faham kan….”

Anyway, I was surprised when 15 people turned up but it made me happy. Everybody enjoyed the class and it went well. Had to get used to people calling me ‘Chef’ … gave up telling them I had never worked in a hotel before… so chef, chef lah….. yang penting apa yang diajar… ikhlas dan murid-murid faham dan dapat buat yang betul. Takut.. oi.. mengajar tak jujur… belakang hari jawab sendiri ohhhhh…

 

 

 

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Farah Farhana turned fifteen....WOW!!!!!!

With the help of my Wilton intrustor turned friend Adlina, my niece got a pleasant surprise for her birthday. I had told her that I would make her a pillow cake for her birthday since sleeping is her perpetual hobby. But then she also obsessed with making up, handphones, shoes, bags..... girl's stuff. So here's her birthday cakes ....all 15 of them...

This is the Birthday Girl.

Birthday girl and family....

Her Obsessions.....

More Obsessions......

Me, my family and the Birthday Girl......

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Ini Prada....Ainee Yang Punya

Ini Prada…..Ainee Yang Punya

Setinggi-tinggi penghargaan dan terima kasih khas buat Kak Jun atas menunaikan permintaan I untuk menghalusi teknik-teknik membuat kek handbag ni. Memang masa agak sibuk bagi Kak Jun, namun dia tak menghampakan I dan terus menyelitkan satu hari untuk I buat kraftangan ni.

Proses membuat kek handbag ni tak lah susah sangat. Cuma perlu kesabaran, ketekunan dan kesungguhan.

Alahai bestnya…..lepas ni bolehlah I bergaya dengan handbag baru I.

Adik ipar I nampak handbag tu…..dia minta I buatkan LV handbag untuk Birthday dia. Insyallah……….

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