Learn to COOK - The Smart Baking Cookbook: Muffins, Cookies, Biscuits and Breads (Jane Kinderlehrer's Smart Food)
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Manufacturer: Newmarket Press
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 641
EAN: 9781557045225
ISBN: 1557045224
Label: Newmarket Press
Manufacturer: Newmarket Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: 2002-09
Publisher: Newmarket Press
Studio: Newmarket Press
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Editorial Reviews:
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Former Prevention senior editor and nutrition expert Jane Kinderlehrer reveals the secrets to delicious yet healthy baking in these 180 high fiber, lowfat, no sugar recipes. Ideal for today's healthy choice lifestyle—The Smart Baking Cookbook provides readers with over 180 easy recipes for baked goods that are high-fiber and high-flavor, yet sugar-free and low-fat. These delectable vitamin-enriched recipes also contain no white flour, hydrogenated fats, or chemical additives—just natural ingredients like fruit, nuts, honey, and carob. Charmingly illustrated, the book includes an extensive guide to flours, grains, and seeds; helpful nutrient analysis of ingredients; a metric conversion chart; and special chapters for the allergic. Recipes include family and kitchen-tested gems Banana Maple Walnut Muffins, Pizza Muffins, Dark Rye and Cornmeal Bread, Butterfly Ginger Cookies, Cinnamon Twist Coffee Cake, Crunchy Fudgy Brownies, and much more.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great, healthy, easy
Comment: This is a great book. You'll find a variety of good recipes for healthy muffins. You don't need butter or refined sugars to make a good tasty muffin, and the recipes in this book prove that. I don't agree about the reviewer who says that the recipes are not easy or the items obscure. Certainly they are not the very common ones. I have a large taperware in the fridge with the different ingredients the recipes call for, and that's it, I have always the supplies at hand. Then you just mix the ingredients and voila! I recommend a health food store to buy the ingredients you need, one that sells bulk. You'll find there most of the things you need. And certainly the muffins will be still ok if you mix one ingredient or substitute it, not big deal. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Great for Tasty, Healthy Baking
Comment: This book is one of the best out there in helping create healthy (and still very tasty) baking. The instructions are clear and the results are top-notch. Of course, when you are going to bake nutrient-packed muffins or cookies, a trip to the healthful store might be required (duh!), since sadly, at most regular supermarkets, you can only find sugar, sugar and more sugar. Bottom line, if you want to bake yummy treats and keep it healthy at the same time ... this is the book.
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Summary: The healthiest and best tasting
Comment: I've never done this-write a review. But someone gave this book only 2 stars, and that really bothers me. The author's other baking books, now almost impossible to find, were very highly rated, and rightly, and this one is the best of them all-and comprehensive.
Oh, yes, there are a few ingredients you'll need to buy at a health food store. BUT, well worth the trip.
Bake up a batch of her wonderful muffins, and watch your kids devour them as mine did. I made a batch of the apple pecan, by choice, to start my family off on a cross-country trip-they are special.
The cookies are unbelievable. The baked goods too.
There are many ideas for substitutions, and many ideas for those special needs-like diabetes, coronary artery disease, allergies (the wheat-free, egg-free, sugar-free, low-fat, etc.) AND everything not only tastes good, but also is good for you, loaded with nuts, seeds, whole grains, fruits, vegetables....
Easy to follow instructions, flawless recipes. Delicious results, for those of us who don't eat white bread. For those who do, expand your horizons.
Really, this book is a stand out in health-oriented baking-I should know, I've bought them all. I can promise you two things: one, you will not like every recipe, some you won't even try; and two, you will love most of the recipes and find yourself making them again and again.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Healthy, but not easy
Comment: Jane Kinderlehrer has a lot of creative ideas for muffin recipes, but many key ingredients are obscure (lecithin granules) or take extra time to prepare (a special concoction of seeds & granola). Many healthy items are used as additives, put into many of the recipes, rather than with an eye toward creating a uniquely delicious item. I guess if you're looking for how to sneak in lots of nutrients when you bake, this book might be helpful.
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