Making Dough: Recipes and Ratios for Perfect Pastries

I love making baked goods this has comprehensive recipe index. This book has a Phylo recipe, croissant recipe , it has everything. No books have Phylo. I'm impressed!

As an amateur Baker this book is a godsend. Unlike so many books it explains why you prepare dough instead of just how. The recipes are given in proportions so you can scale up or down as needed.

Great book! What else can I say?

I've now spent quite a bit of time with this book. I wish the recipes were in grams as well as ounces, but it isn't hard to convert them. I have not been thrilled with the actual recipes -- they seem a little uninspired to me, for the most part -- but this book is really about technique and the chemistry/physics behind the various doughs, and it does an excellent job there. It's not the kind of book you buy for recipes, but rather a book to help explain in a more thorough manner the doughs we use. The format can seem a little cumbersome, because he will describe the dough and then later add recipes, so you kind of have to flip back and forth, but he makes it easy, always giving page numbers, and the format he used is really the only solution for what he is trying to accomplish. It would be even more cumbersome to do it any other way. My only real complaint of substance is that he could have gone one step further in his discussion. For example, he could have told his readers what happens if you roll the croissant dough out thinner, what are the symptoms of pate sablee that has been rolled out too many times, that sort of thing. He tells you how to do it either his way or the "right/traditional" way, but he doesn't go into variations and what results from them, and I know he could have done this. But this is a great book for someone who bakes often and wants to expand their repertoire or wants a better understanding of what is going on with dough. If you are a baker, the book is well worth the price and the space it will take up on your shelf. It has improved my baking and I am grateful to the author for perceiving that a book like this was needed, and writing one.

Loved it!!! My girlfriend and I have made several of the rscipes in here including begniets and poptarts and they are abaolutely fantastic!

I love this book, & I’ve owned it less than a week. I actually haven’t baked from it, but with my experience I can easily say that I believe it will be amazing. I have quite a few ‘bucket list’ items to cross off, starting on page 159.

I have only gone thru 1/2 of this book. I love baking and this book has a great outline that works for me. Thanks

I bought this book without and recommendations and thought I'd quickly flip through. I was so surprised to see how absolutely amazing the recipe's rips and photos were. I would highly recommend this book. The price is extremely reasonable for the quality of the content.