Family Secrets -The Recipes: Part 1 1876 -2019

Following on from the worldwide successes of The Art of Lamination, The Global Master Bakers Cookbook and El Arte del Laminado, Jimmy's fourth book presents history, culture and amazing recipes in one book. Family secrets are revealed, you can unlock these secrets from this very book. Jimmy's family recipes, many over 143 years old; of favourite traditional breads, scones, confections, desserts, pastries, pizzas and more have been scaled down from large bakery size, so they can now be made in the home for you to enjoy. With simple language and detailed step by step instructions, you can enjoy Jimmy Griffin's favourites every time you take this book out to read. Whether its the chocolate castle, Baileys cheesecake, raspberry scones or an old favourite, the Princess Fingers.This book is organized into eleven sections. Section 1 includes some basic information about baking that likely will help less experienced bakers successfully navigate the recipes in this book, and here are the basic stages required for most bread-making techniques. The other sections follows: Section 2, Fermented Favourites; Section 3, Soda Breads; Section 4, Pastries; Section 5, Desserts and Treats; Section 6, Other Stuff, such as base mixes to be used in the recipes; Section 7, Christmas Section; Section 8, The Conger Loaf; Section 9, Dutch Oven Baking; Section 10 Croissants; Section 11, Pizza Baking and Section 12 is a complete on-line resource to links of my many tutorial videos which are to be found on my You Tube channel. Appendix A discusses different flour types from around the world Read more