Carle, Megan & Jill. Teens cook dessert.CARLE, Megan & Jill. Teens cook dessert. Ten Speed Press. 157p. illus. index. c2006. 1-58008-752-3. $19.95. JS Megan and Jill have been helping out in the kitchen since they were three and they really know how to demystify de·mys·ti·fy tr.v. de·mys·ti·fied, de·mys·ti·fy·ing, de·mys·ti·fies To make less mysterious; clarify: an autobiography that demystified the career of an eminent physician. recipes for the novice cook. This step-by-step guide provides wonderful detailed recipes that teens will be tempted to create on their own. Each recipe includes a personal anecdote that will inspire the reader to read this book as a story. Megan and Jill compiled family recipes as well as others they created just for this book. Kitchen shortcut tips, vocabulary sidebars, and numerous color illustrations provide additional information that enables even the novice baker to be successful. The recipes include Triple Chocolate Biscotti Biscotti (plural of Italian biscotto, roughly meaning "twice baked") are crisp Italian cookies often containing nuts or flavored with anise. Traditionally, biscotti are made by baking cookie dough in two long slabs, cutting these into slices, and reheating them to dry , Peach Clafouti cla·fou·ti or cla·fou·tis n. A baked dessert composed of a layer of fresh fruit topped with a thick batter. [French clafoutis, from Old French : claufir, to attach with nails , Peppermint Ice Cream Sandwiches, Chocolate Eclairs, Fresh Berry Pie, Banana Spring Rolls with Cinnamon-Caramel Sauce, and many more mouthwatering mouth·wa·ter·ing or mouth-wa·ter·ing adj. Appealing to the sense of taste; appetizing: the mouthwatering aroma of a baking pie. treats. This book is a sequel to Teens Cook." How to Cook What You Want to Eat. Jill and Megan are the daughters of Judi Carle, who has collaborated on more than 20 cookbooks and who has obviously inspired her daughters. This is a great book for beginning cooks. Shirley Beis, IMC (Internet Mail Consortium, Santa Cruz, CA, www.imc.org) An industry trade association founded in 1996 by Paul Hoffman and Dave Crocker that promotes Internet e-mail standards and features. Dir., Wilson Elem. Sch., WI J--Recommended for junior high school students. The contents are of particular interest to young adolescents and their teachers. S--Recommended for senior high school students. |
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