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Trusted recipes, revised and updated for a new generation of home bakers.

Comprehensive in scope, authoritative in style, and offering clear, practical, and encouraging instruction, The King Arthur Baking Company's All-Purpose Baker’s Companion is the one book you’ll turn to every time you bake. The experts from King Arthur lead home bakers through hundreds of easy and foolproof recipes from yeast breads and sourdoughs to cakes and cookies to quick breads and brownies. Winner of the 2004 Cookbook of the Year Award by the James Beard Foundation, this dependable cookbook has been reinvigorated with new photography, recipes, and revisions to keep it relevant to today’s modern baker.

Decades of research in their famous test kitchen shaped the contents of this book which includes more than 350 recipes, a completely up-to-date overview of ingredients (including gluten-free options), substitutions and variations, and troubleshooting advice. Sidebars share baking secrets and provide clear step-by-step instructions. Techniques are further explained with easy-to-follow illustrations. Now fully revised and updated,The King Arthur Baking Company's All-Purpose Baker’s Companion is an essential kitchen tool.

24 pages of color photos, 150 illustrations

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Over 350 easy, foolproof recipes—from yeast breads and sourdoughs to cakes and cookies to quick breads and brownies

Praise for the King Arthur Baking Company's All-Purpose Baker's Companion

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Countryman Press; Updated edition (March 2, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 592 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1682686175
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1682686171
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.7 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 1.6 x 10.4 inches
Reviewer: Abeguy125
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: My first true cookbook. Tired of the school of YouTube like me?
Review: Just amazing, jazzed up, or just plain classic recipes. Obviously immediately took off the book jacket because this will be used a LOT, just need to find the right protector for it. Very tired of phone scrolling and wanted a tangible object full of no nonsense tested recipes. Huge sections of techniques, what to do when adding certain types of grains, additives and fruits, well, basically everything a beginning to advanced baker needs to know. I am relatively familiar to baking, but I like to start with exact base recipes to the grams, then next time start changing things up. Had the book 24 hours and made brownies (amazing), Basic White loaf 101 (fantastic crumb, just firm enough for sandwiches, toasts perfectly, I mistimed warming my oven and overproofed by about 30 minutes, which created an “uglier” loaf, but that was my fault. Bake when dough is final proofed 1” above top of pan like it says, dumped the ingredients in my bread machine, ran the dough cycle, 1.5 hours later shape/pan/final rise/bake, very easy), and Japanese milk rolls (added a generous brushing of garlic butter and sprinkled seat salt out of the oven, they basically disolve in your mouth) have been using King Arthur’s Pain de Champange for my sourdough recipe for a month now (it’s not in the book but it’s fairly similar, and the proofing times are about perfect for my schedule, and I love it, have to bake 2-3 times a week, but I usually make a batch bread bowls). Easy enough recipes to start moving to much more complicated projects. Which I greatly look forward to, unfortunately couldn’t afford the other two, but ONE day I’m getting the collection!Now, my issues with the book:1. Already tired of hearing “I am gonna get SOOOO fat!”2. Im going to go broke buying ingredients. (I somehow stumbled on 5$ bags of KA bread flower on sale at Walmart… so I bought 30 pounds of flower… something I never saw myself doing.) Will have to either find cheaper alternatives or curb it to 2-3 new things a week unfortunately, but currently having tons of fun developing my passion for this skill.3. That’s about it, if you enjoy learning and baking just buy the book, you will not regret it.Update:Been baking as much as I can, with a combination of this book for techniques/base recipes, and variations of recipes from the site. From milk buns, different types of bread loaves, fudge brownies, cinnamon rolls, eclairs, sourdough to basic naan bread and zephyr pancakes. Going to have to start selling stuff on Facebook so I can buy more ingredients just to keep baking every day. Most of the pics are my first time making the recipe, and every time gets a little better. Hope to get a proper set of pans and the other two books someday. But still having fun a month later and reference the All-Purpose Bakers Companion almost daily.

Reviewer: Educator
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great resource!
Review: Loved the details!

Reviewer: Michael G
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Buy this cookbook! You won't be disappointed!
Review: I ordered this book on a whim. I thought it would be fun to read. Well, it certainly did not disappoint. I have used it several times and every recipe comes out perfectly. I plan to gift a few of these for Christmas.

Reviewer: BC830
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good Solid Baking Reference
Review: I am 70 plus years old and was taught basic bread baking when I was 9.I can't remember buying more than 5 or 6 loaves of bread in the last 4 years.I don't follow many recipes to the letter, but I bought this book to help me gain a better understanding of breads, biscuits, and baked sourdough products. This book has already helped me understand the physical and texture differences between regular yeast bread dough and sourdough bread dough. I have also used it to increase the types of items I make/bake at home.I do like this book.

Reviewer: Shelby Walker
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: AMAZING
Review: Don’t hesitate to buy this. This book has SO MANY amazing recipes! Their trifle recipe is to die for. It’s a labor of love to make, but it is so worth it and the recipe is very easy to understand. I have tons of cook books and this is one of my favorites, hands down.

Reviewer: Gabriela Xavier
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great cook book
Review: One of my fav cookbooks

Reviewer: uberwench
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good reference but with some caveats
Review: Very good reference sections in this book. Ingredient weight chart, and high altitude tips are great. I was stymied by some of the recipes, though. For example, "White Bread 101" requires potato flour, which I could not find at any of the regular grocers and ended up having to order online. (could have substituted instant mashed potatoes for it but I have an aversion to food dust in a box - so the nonfat dry milk requirement didn't make me excited either). The recipe for English muffins in this book is different than the KA recipe online - results were similar though. And don't ever substitute flour for Instant ClearJel unless you want the biggest runny fruity mess you've ever had in your kitchen.Take heed at using your kitchen scale to weigh ingredients rather than measure - if for no other reason than the teeny tiny fractions are really hard to see sometimes without a magnifying glass.

Reviewer: t chiesa
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great recipes
Review: Loved everything about this product.

Reviewer: Frank Stonehouse
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Me gusta que hay varias recetas, pero no me gusta que 50 páginas estaban dañados.

Reviewer: BN
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: This cookbook has come in very handy for me. It contains hundreds of classic American baked goods, just what I was looking for. I love that the ingredients are shown in grams and the conversion charts on the first few pages are incredibly useful as well for someone like me who is adapting to the metric system. Keep in mind that there are not a ton of pictures in this book, so if that’s something you need this is not the book for you.

Reviewer: Let Me Say This:
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: My first triumphant bread was "The Easiest Loaf of Bread You'll Ever Bake," a King Arthur Flour recipe I found through Google.I immediately loved the simplicity of the ingredients, the friendly way the recipe was written, and all the tips and tricks that helped me bake this successful loaf.Thank you so much, King Arthur Flour company!!!Being 40+, I've realized that I can bake.After more than a year of starting to bake, I still in awe of myself.Without hesitation, I bought the new King Arthur Flour All-Purpose Baker's Companion on the day I saw it on Amazon.I've already baked 101 Bread, Carrot cake and Lemon Zucchini muffins.The recipes in the book, just like the recipes on the website, are written in an easy-to-understand, friendly-explained and supportive way.The book contains not only the recipes but practical information about baking ingredients and tools.There are some photos in the book, but not how modern cooking boos present them.All images are gathered together separately from the recipes they belong to.I'm so happy that I have this book.I feel so encouraged after every successfully baked recipe.I wish that King Arthur Flour's online store could ship to Canada or sell their products on Amazon Canada.

Reviewer: Doxiemum
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: An excellent, comprehensive book for all your baking needs. Well written, with clear, easy to follow directions and terrific information on flour types, equipment, techniques, etc. . I have tried quite a few recipes in the book and have yet to be disappointed. It has become a favourite baking book of mine, and I've almost memorized the Classic 100% Whole Wheat Bread and the Golden Focaccia recipes because I make them so often.

Reviewer: Robert H.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: The recipes assume a certain level of experience. It's not a beginners book.