{"id":21721,"date":"2014-02-14T08:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T14:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=21721"},"modified":"2014-02-06T14:46:28","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T20:46:28","slug":"the-art-of-french-pastry-by-jacquy-pfeiffer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/the-art-of-french-pastry-by-jacquy-pfeiffer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of French Pastry by Jacquy Pfeiffer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"art<\/a>What does it take to perfect a flawless \u00e9clair? A delicate yet buttery croissant? To pipe dozens of macarons? The answer is: an intimate knowledge of the fundamentals of pastry.<\/p>\n

In The Art of French Pastry<\/strong><\/em><\/a> award-winning pastry chef Jacquy Pfeiffer, cofounder of the renowned French Pastry School in Chicago, gives you just that. By teaching you how to make everything from p\u00e2te \u00e0 choux to pastry cream, Pfeiffer builds on the basics until you have an understanding of the science behind the ingredients used, how they interact with one another, and what your hands have to do to transform them into pastry. This yields glorious results! Expect to master these techniques and then indulge in exquisite recipes, such as: \u00b7 brioche \u00b7 napol\u00e9ons \/ Mille-Feuilles \u00b7 cream puffs \u00b7 Alsatian cinnamon rolls \/ chinois \u00b7 lemon cream tart with meringue teardrops \u00b7 elephant ears \/ palmiers \u00b7 black forest cake \u00b7 beignets as well as some traditional Alsatian savory treats, including: \u00b7 Pretzels \u00b7 Kougelhof \u00b7 Tarte Flamb\u00e9e \u00b7 Warm Alsatian Meat Pie.<\/p>\n

Pastry is all about precision, so Pfeiffer presents us with an amazing wealth of information–lists of necessary equipment, charts on how ingredients react in different environments, and the precise weight of ingredients in grams, with a look at their equivalent in U.S. units–which will help you in all aspects of your cooking. But in order to properly enjoy your “just desserts,” so to speak; you will also learn where these delicacies originated. Jacquy Pfeiffer comes from a long line of pastry chefs and has been making these recipes since he was a child working in his father’s bakery in Alsace. Sprinkled with funny, charming memories from a lifetime in pastry, this book will have you fully appreciating the hundreds of years of tradition that shaped these recipes into the classics that we know and love, and can now serve to our friends and families over and over again.<\/p>\n

The Art of French Pastry<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, full of gorgeous photography and Pfeiffer’s accompanying illustrations, is a master class in pastry from a master teacher. (description from publisher)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What does it take to perfect a flawless \u00e9clair? A delicate yet buttery croissant? To pipe dozens of macarons? The answer is: an intimate knowledge of the fundamentals of pastry. In The Art of French Pastry award-winning pastry chef Jacquy Pfeiffer, cofounder of the renowned French Pastry School in Chicago,[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[158,2460,2572,359],"class_list":["post-21721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-baking","tag-french-cooking","tag-pastry","tag-recipes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-5El","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21723,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21721\/revisions\/21723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}