Southern Biscuits

Description

Filled with beautiful photography, including dozens of how-to photos showing how to mix, stir, fold, roll, and knead, "Southern Biscuits" is the definitive biscuit-baking book featuring recipes and baking secrets for every flavor and style imaginable. Southern Biscuits features recipes and baking secrets for every biscuit imaginable, including hassle-free easy biscuits to embellished biscuits laced with silky goat butter, crunchy pecans, or tangy pimento cheese. The traditional biscuits in this book encompass a number of types, from beaten biscuits of the Old South and England, to Angel Biscuits-a yeast biscuit sturdy enough to split and fill but light enough to melt in your mouth. Filled with beautiful photography, including dozens of how-to photos showing how to mix, stir, fold, roll, and knead, Southern Biscuits is the definitive biscuit baking book.

Nathalie Dupree has written or coauthored many cookbooks, including the James Beard award winner Nathalie Dupree's Southern Memories and Shrimp and Grits. Cynthia Stevens Graubart is an author and former television producer who began her culinary television production career with New Southern Cooking with Nathalie Dupree in 1985. She is the author of The One-Armed Cook, called the culinary version of What to Expect When You're Expecting. Cynthia and her husband, Cliff, live in Atlanta, Georgia.

by Nathalie Dupree and Cynthia Graubart (Gibbs-Smith, $21.99). We can't think of a better or more definitive source for such a worthy undertaking. --Bonnie S Benwick "Washington Post.com" (12/13/2011 12:00:00 AM)