the simple codes behind the craft of everyday cooking /
Michael Ruhlman
1st Scribner hardcover ed
New York, NY :
Scribner,
2009
xxv, 244 p. :
ill. ;
24 cm
The ratios -- What is a ratio, and why is it important? -- The all-important scale -- Using this book -- The truth of cooking -- Doughs and batters -- Stocks and the amazing things they allow you to do -- Farçir : sausage, mousseline, and other meat-related ratios -- Fat-based sauces -- The custard continuum -- The ultimate meaning and usefulness of ratios
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Cooking with ratios will unchain you from recipes and set you free. With thirty-three ratios and suggestions for enticing variations, "Ratio" is the truth ofcooking: basic preparations that teach us how the fundamental ingredients of the kitchen -- water, flour, butter and oils, milk and cream, and eggs -- work. Change the ratio and bread dough becomes pasta dough, cakes become muffins become popovers become crepes