Desserts by the Yard
From Brooklyn to Beverly Hills : Recipes From the Sweetest Life Ever
Book - 2007
Houghton
Baker & Taylor
A dazzling array of incredible desserts by Spago's pastry chef to the stars presents an array of tempting recipes for the author's signature take on crème brûlée, chocolate caramel tart, oatmeal raisin cookies, souffléed crème fraîche pancakes with strawberry sauce, and many more, accompanied by handy baking techniques, tricks, and personal anecdotes.
Baker
& Taylor
Spago's pastry chef's recipes for such desserts as cráeme brãulâee, chocolate caramel tart, oatmeal raisin cookies, and soufflâeed cráeme fraãiche pancakes with strawberry sauce are accompanied by handy baking techniques, tricks, and personal anecdotes.
Spago’s pastry chef to the stars and author of the James Beard Award-winning Secrets of Baking shares the recipes that propelled her to the top of her profession
Night after night at Spago in Beverly Hills, Sherry Yard dazzles the powerful, rich, and famous with incredible desserts. Her marvelous confections have won over patrons from Madonna to Frank Sinatra. Now the country’s premier pastry chef reveals the recipes that have made her a star in her own right and won her two coveted James Beard Awards.
Desserts by the Yard begins with inspirations from Yard’s childhood, such as My Favorite White Birthday Cake with Chocolate and Butter Fudge Frosting, and culminates in the spectacular creations she makes every year for the Academy Awards. Included here are some of Yard’s most famous recipes: the slinky crcme brulée she perfected when she worked at New York’s Rainbow Room, the coffeecake that made Campton Place Hotel San Francisco’s most popular breakfast spot, and the souffléed crcme fraîche pancakes with strawberry sauce she learned in Vienna. Don’t miss the chocolate caramel tart that Hugh Grant loves, former President Clinton’s favorite oatmeal raisin cookies, or the treat that made actress Suzanne Pleshette exclaim, “Bitch! You’re gonna make me fat!”
Desserts don’t get easier than Yard’s No-Bake Cheesecake, more decadent than Chocolate Bread Pudding with Butterscotch Gelato, or more holiday-perfect than Triple Silken Pumpkin Pie. In sidebars to each recipe, Yard shares tricks and techniques along with hilarious anecdotes that show her pluck, determination, and generosity.
Night after night at Spago in Beverly Hills, Sherry Yard dazzles the powerful, rich, and famous with incredible desserts. Her marvelous confections have won over patrons from Madonna to Frank Sinatra. Now the country’s premier pastry chef reveals the recipes that have made her a star in her own right and won her two coveted James Beard Awards.
Desserts by the Yard begins with inspirations from Yard’s childhood, such as My Favorite White Birthday Cake with Chocolate and Butter Fudge Frosting, and culminates in the spectacular creations she makes every year for the Academy Awards. Included here are some of Yard’s most famous recipes: the slinky crcme brulée she perfected when she worked at New York’s Rainbow Room, the coffeecake that made Campton Place Hotel San Francisco’s most popular breakfast spot, and the souffléed crcme fraîche pancakes with strawberry sauce she learned in Vienna. Don’t miss the chocolate caramel tart that Hugh Grant loves, former President Clinton’s favorite oatmeal raisin cookies, or the treat that made actress Suzanne Pleshette exclaim, “Bitch! You’re gonna make me fat!”
Desserts don’t get easier than Yard’s No-Bake Cheesecake, more decadent than Chocolate Bread Pudding with Butterscotch Gelato, or more holiday-perfect than Triple Silken Pumpkin Pie. In sidebars to each recipe, Yard shares tricks and techniques along with hilarious anecdotes that show her pluck, determination, and generosity.
Baker & Taylor
A dazzling array of incredible desserts by Spago's pastry chef to the stars presents an array of tempting recipes for the author's signature take on crème brûlée, chocolate caramel tart, oatmeal raisin cookies, souffléed crème fraîche pancakes with strawberry sauce, and many more, accompanied by handy baking techniques, tricks, and personal anecdotes.
Baker
& Taylor
Spago's pastry chef's recipes for such desserts as cráeme brãulâee, chocolate caramel tart, oatmeal raisin cookies, and soufflâeed cráeme fraãiche pancakes with strawberry sauce are accompanied by handy baking techniques, tricks, and personal anecdotes.
Publisher:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2007
ISBN:
0618515224
9780618515226
9780618515226
Branch Call Number:
641.86 YAR
Characteristics:
xii, 400 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm
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