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Honey: Everyday Recipes for Cooking and Baking with Nature's Sweetest Secret Ingredient

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Honey: Everyday Recipes for Cooking and Baking with Nature's Sweetest Secret Ingredient

Contributors:
ISBN:

9781771511087

Publisher:

TouchWood Editions

Imprint:

TouchWood Editions

Publication Date:

11th August 2015

Country:

Canada

Classifications

Readership:

General

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Dewey:

641.68

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

208

Dimensions:

Width 190mm, Height 241mm

Weight:

566g

Description

Honey is a collection of recipes that showcase the sweet, rich, and sunny-colored delight made by natures hardest workerthe bee. You'll be surprised at how versatile honey really is.
Honey is a natural whole food that can be used in many different dishes and enjoyed in a variety of waysthis book introduces you to the countless possibilities of nature's sweetest natural ingredient.
Honey can be used to great effect to add moisture and color to breads and baked goods; enhance the texture and depth of flavor in sauces and preserves; provide balance and an unexpected counterpart to savory side and main dishes such as roasts and seafood; and add its trademark understated sweetness to confections and desserts.
In addition to featuring general guidelines on how to substitute honey for white sugar in all kinds of dishes, Honey also offers a wealth of information about the key ingredient. You'll learn about why bees are so essential to our ecosystem, the most common varietals of honey and their characteristics, and how to use honey to create brines that enhance the savory flavor of meats before roasting, smoking, or barbecuing. And if that's not enough, you'll even learn how to make your own honey throat lozenges.
Written by award-winning chef Angelo ProsperiPorta, many of the recipes in Honey were inspired by the chef's Italian heritage, and his profound respect and admiration for bees.

Reviews

Praise for Flavours of Cooper's Cove Guesthouse: "A feast for the eyes as well as the palate with over 200 recipes and accompanying photos."-Canadian Bookseller Magazine "Two hundred enticing 'real' recipes where the flavour of the food is not masked, but is enhanced with simple ingredients to maintain earthy, honest flavours." -EAT Magazine "I would buy this book just for the baking recipes, which include, among many others, Rosemary, Honey, and Cornmeal Scones, and the ultra yummy Chocolate Crescents." -The Times Colonist

Author Bio

Angelo Prosperi-Porta has worked as a pastry chef at some of Western Canada's best hotels and restaurants, and ran the pastry kitchen at the Delta Mountain Inn in Whistler. In 2001, he and his partner, Ina, opened Angelo's Cooking School in at Cooper's Cove Guesthouse in Victoria, BC.

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