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Learn to COOK - Making Great Gingerbread Houses: Delicious Designs from Cabins to Castles, from Lighthouses to Tree Houses
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List Price: $14.95
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Manufacturer: Lark Books
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 641
EAN: 9781579902681
ISBN: 1579902685
Label: Lark Books
Manufacturer: Lark Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: 2001-12
Publisher: Lark Books
Studio: Lark Books
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With a five-star inn's executive pastry chef as your personal trainer, you'll become a pastry artist, an architect, and the talk of the party when you bake one of these remarkable yet doable gingerbread houses: Victorian mansion, Coventry cottage, or lighthouse-keeper's wintry home. The basic recipes, patterns, and instructions are simple to follow, inspiring you to make them for your own table and welcomed hostess gifts.
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Summary: Encourages risks
Comment: Most gingerbread houses are though of as a few pieces of flat cookie glued together with a miracle morter, and decorated to suit the Christmas holiday only to last as long as the oooh!s and aaaah!s. You might have a few Hansel or Gretel types who dare to pick a small chunk off for tasting which inevitable tarnishes the entire effect that you worked so hard to acchieve.This book pushes the ideas beyond the four walls and wheat chex roof to a area that allow imagination to swell. Dare to be different! Add a windowbox, a corn flake tree or a pretzel fence. Go from hoping to get past beginner stage and start assembling like a pro and decorating like a designer. It'll be too pretty and fabulous to nibble on!
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Summary: I'll keep it but only as a supplement to better books
Comment: This book has pictures of some really cool ideas, and pictures of some less-cool ideas. It also has several basic recipes and some general building information, but it isn't very detailed. Most frustrating are the pictures of houses that have only one or two pictures and little or no information about some of the most interesting design details!
If I hadn't purchased this book from an independent bookseller, I'd probably return it. It is useful to a beginner like me, but only marginally.
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Summary: Really disappointing
Comment: If you are seeking the inside secrets to gingerbread artistry, don't expect much from this book. This book doesn't even begin to cover the many gingerbread/food techniques currently available -- and that home builders can use -- which mimic real-life or fantasy -- building structures and contents. I thought that many of the instructions shown were too simple and general -- the reader deserved to read more details, more inside information on how to work with food items to create effects -- especially since the author is a pastry chef! The book's description also promises photos of the Grove Park Inn's gingerbread competition entries. But if you expect to see the competition's top of the line entries featuring incredible details, don't. I looked forward to receiving this book. I'm sorry I bought it.
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Summary: Artistic, Excellent Photography, Good Variety!
Comment: Highly recommend for your baking library! Lots of great ideas, good instructions, basic templates but lots of room for your own personal taste.Worth the buy!
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Summary: Wonderful Baking Must Have
Comment: This is an excellent book with simple, clear and easy to follow instructions with plenty of room for individuality.Photography is crisp, clear and uncluttered. Highly recommend just for viewing pleasure if not for anything else!
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