Puff pastry is the royalty of pastries--crisp, flaky, and especially light, it literally rises to any occasion. And although preparing homemade puff pastry is a labor-intensive process, Puff Pastry Perfection shows that a package of frozen puff pastry sheets makes the magnificence of puff pastry accessible to home cooks everywhere. Puff Pastry Perfection has eliminated the guesswork. At a cost of less than four dollars, one 17.3-ounce package from a grocer's freezer section delivers two perfect puff pastry sheets, prerolled and ready to use in recipes ranging from the first course to the last. Oh, the enchanting creations that await! Frozen puff pastry can be used to quickly and easily render classics such as napoleons, cream puffs, strudels, turnovers, palmiers, mille-feuille, and French tarts. It can be twisted into appetizer sticks, cut into tartlet shapes, used as a quick pie or quiche crust, folded over savory appetizer fillings, molded over casserole fillings to create one-step pot pie "lids," or rolled and sliced into elegant, but oh-so-easy recipes. Puff Pastry Perfection is more than just another collection of baked goods. It is a burst of extraordinary flavors that surprise and delight, along with foolproof instructions to make home cooks into baking heroes. The result? How about portobello napoleons, wasabi shrimp puffs, dried cherry and almond baked brie, or spicy cumin cheese straws for starters? For supper consider chile relleno quiche, puff pastry po' boys, pizza bianco with prosciutto, arugula and parmesan or chipotle and cheese beef pot pie. Next, the sweets: miniatures such as ginger-lime sugar twists, southern pecan crisps, fresh mango napoleons, and puff pastry cinnamon rolls, all perfect for teatime or an anytime nibble. And finally the grand desserts: from lemon-blackberry cobbler to chocolate-walnut strudel to caramel apple dumplings, there's a sweet treat for every taste and occasion.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Beautiful!:
This is already one of my favorite cookbooks! It is wonderful and beautifully made, too.
It will look like you slaved all day in the kitchen - but you wouldn't:
Reviewed by Cherie Fisher for Reader Views (2/07) "Puff Pastry Perfection" is a dream come true for those people who love the taste and feel of puff pastry without the complicated recipes. The book starts with a description and history of Puff Pastry and also adds many valuable tips for working with it successfully. The recipes are based on the store-bought, very affordable, prepackaged Pepperidge Farms brand that can be found in any grocery frozen food section. One advantage to the Pepperidge Farms... more info
Great lessons for puff pastry:
I bought this book with the hope of learning more about working with puff pastry in general. Every time I tried to use it, I seemed to end up with tough, flat-ish results. The author provides an excellent how-to section at the front that I have used for recipes in the book as well as recipes that I already have. For example, I followed the advice of keeping a baggie full of ice water nearby now to keep my hands from getting too warm as I am working with the dough. I also used to have trouble rolling... more info
Just A Kid Learning How to Bake:
My cousin got this for me as a gift. I do not know how to bake as I am doing it for the first time. The book has many recipes for me to try, but I cannot imagine how it will look like once its done? Because, there are no picture illustrations, so I am lost! I would probably need my Cousin or My Mom to help me. Thanks!
