Bake Like a French Pastry Chef addresses the secrets of French pastry including how croissants get their flaky layers, the difference between pastry cream & Bavarian cream, what a Genoise cake is & whether mille-feuilles can be made at home. Created by the Parisian masters Michel et Augustin, this comprehensive guide starts from the batters, doughs & creams that form the building blocks of French pastry &

Includes:: complete recipes from brioche to mousse-filled cakes. Step-by-step instructions & tips give readers the confidence to achieve pastry perfection. For Francophiles & pastry lovers, this charming manual covers the techniques taught in pastry schools worldwide.

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Let award-winning baker Christian Humbs take your baking to the next level with exceptional & exciting cake & dessert recipes from macarons to muffins & beyond. Impress your friends with over 100 classic & innovative cake recipes to create mouth-watering desserts every time. From favourites such as chocolate chip cookies to delicious new trends including cronuts & salted caramel, Bake To Impress is a beautiful guide to inspire your baking creativity. Perfect for hobby bakers seeking new challenges or anyone looking for baking inspiration, Bake To Impress is a true show-stopper. ...

We all know that baked treats can warm our hearts as well as our stomachs, & that everything tastes better when you`ve made it yourself. This collection of delicious recipes is peppered with thoughtful"es & bursting with fail-safe pick-me-ups, from piping-hot pies to sinful double-chocolate muffins. Bake these recipes & be down in the dumplings no more! ...

All day long the baker`s cat toils in the bakery & all night he is expected to catch the mice that run riot in the storeroom. If he doesn`t catch any mice, the beastly baker tells him, he won`t get any food. Too exhausted to chase after the cheeky rodents, the baker`s cat becomes thin & sad & weepy, until the mice take pity on him & together they concoct a clever plan...” Posy Simmonds delights as ever with a subversive story rich in humour & glorious in its bakery details.” Guardian ” Anything by Posy Simmonds is a must for parents as well as children.” (Evening Standard). ...

Military topographic survey mapping with contours. These maps are designed primarily as flying charts for aircraft, but they are useful as general topographical maps where nothing else is available. Contours are shown in feet, with elevation colouring & spot heights. Towns, villages, major roads, railways & airports are shown (but please note that many of the smaller settlements are not named, & the road information is not necessarily up to date). Some air navigation information also appears on the map, such as radio beacons & restricted flying zones. Double-sided sheet. ...

Paul Morley, author, journalist & cultural commentator, tells the story in Earthbound of post-punk, music & changing times
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Bakersfield, Kern County, CA in a series of indexed street plans of US cities from G.M. Johnson & Associates with surrounding insets showing street plans of Shafter, Maricopa, Taft, Mc Farl&, Arvin & Lake Isabella. Other communities covered by this map include Delano & Wasco. On the reverse is a road map of Ken County indicating which areas are shown on street plans. Street plans from G.M. Johnson & Associates are indexed & show longer streets annotated with block numbers for easier identification of addresses. Administrative boundaries are marked but not zip code areas. Colours indicate shopping centres, university areas, parks & adjoining protected areas such as national or state forest, etc. ...

Meet Angel Tungaraza, professional cake-baker, amateur matchmaker, an ear to listen & a shoulder to cry on. A uniquely charming, funny & touching novel of life, life & food set in Rwanda, a country recovers from unimaginable terror & violence. Angel Tungazara has recently moved to Rwanda from her native Tanzania. With her husb&, Pius, & the five orphaned children of their late son & daughter, she is hardly short of things to do. But she still finds time to pursue her hobby & her passion, her small but increasingly successful business, baking individually-designed cakes for the parties & celebrations of her neighbours & their friends. Angel is entirely aware that many of the Rwandans around her have witnessed & survived horrors she can barely imagine. But she also knows that their lives continue, that they also have reasons to celebrate, to be joyous & to be happy. As she gets to know her neighbours & as they tell her their stories, she comes to realise how much each of them has to mourn as well as how much they have to celebrate. &, finally, she comes to accept how much that is true of her too. ...

This attractive planner will soon become an invaluable help in the kitchen. Every keen cook likes to have somewhere to record favourite baking recipes
- from weekend cakes & sweet pies, to celebration cakes & cookies for the kids. With plenty of lined pages to write down or stick in your most treasured recipes, you`ll never again have to search through kitchen drawers for photocopied recipes or scribbled notes.
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Bakony & Somló Mountains Atlas from the Budapest-based Cartographia with detailed, contoured & GPS compatible mapping at 1:25, 000, plus an extensive, Hungarian language guide section providing descriptions of numerous places of interest. The guide has detailed topographic maps at 1:40, 000 with contours at 10m intervals enhanced by relief shading, plus colouring & graphics for different types of vegetation & land use, e.g. vineyards, orchards, meadows, woodlands, etc. An overprint highlights local and/or long-distance hiking trails, indicating their waymarking signage. Also marked are recommended cycling routes. Local roads indicate bus routes & stops, & railway lines are shown with stations. Symbols mark various facilities & places of interests including campsites, hostels & other tourist accommodation, restaurants & cafes, etc. The maps have margin ticks with latitude & longitude at 1’ intervals. Map legend

Includes:: English. Extensive text, illustrated with colour photos, is in Hungarian only – a challenge indeed! – but a lot of useful information, including telephone numbers for tourist offices, can be deciphered with help from a pocket dictionary. To see other titles in this series please click on the series link.

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