- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Cookbooks (Sep 21 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0688175104
- ISBN-13: 978-0688175108
- Product Dimensions: 23.3 x 19.3 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 431 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
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#303,254 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #77 in Books > Cooking, Food & Wine > Meals > Sweets > Confectionery
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Product Description
From Library Journal
Weinstein's book, in the same style as his Ultimate Ice Cream Book, offers 100 or so basic recipes for delectable candies plus variations on the themeDmany recipes, in fact, include close to a dozen versions in all. The candies are organized into the three general categories of the subtitle and range from Fudge-in-a-Minute to Turkish Taffy (in grape, peach, and even fig flavors) to Hazelnut Brittle. There's even a recipe for homemade chewing gum. With its abundance of recipes, this is a good companion to Carole Bloom's several less-ambitious candy-making titles (e.g., Truffles, Candies, & Confections, Crossing Pr., 1996).
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
If desserts aren't sweet enough or not ready quickly enough, candy provides instant gratification. Bruce Weinstein's The Ultimate Candy Book rushes to the rescue with recipes for all sorts of favorite homemade candies as well as directions for reproducing favorite commercial candies in the home kitchen. Weinstein makes plain the simple method of combining pecans, caramel, and chocolate into homemade turtles. His chocolate matzo makes the deprivations of the Passover season much more bearable. Some unexpected treats appear here, such as coconut snowballs: crisp coconut coating the outside of balls of contrastingly moist, chewy coconut. What's unusual is that they're served straight from the deep freeze. Brad Hooper
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Blah. Supreme suckage.,
By Thea J. Willgress "www.sweetthea.com" (Surrey BC) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Ultimate Candy Book The (Paperback)
When you see "Ultimate" in a book title, you can usually infer is American, and probably part of a series. Yep, at the bottom of this cover it says that Weinstein is also the author of "The Ultimate Ice Cream Book" and "The Ultimate Party Drink Book".I am trying to think of a nice way to say this, but I can't sugar-coat it - this book sucks. It is a compilation of average recipes, all very sugary, without any great imagination. I made the caramel apples recipe - reluctantly using evaporated milk, as it specified - yuk - it should have called for condensed - anyway the apples tasted like old milk. Phooey. The Crispie Squares recipe you can get off the Rice Crispies box. I don't understand why most American recipes for marshmallows don't use egg whites - seems bizarre to me - but I thought I would give it a try from this book. Blah. Again supreme suckage. I really wonder if maybe the writer was researching the Party Drink book simultaneously, or even bothered to make most of these recipes. Maybe .. just maybe .. if you had a party of undiscerning kids that would be happy just getting over-amped on sugar, this would be useful book. I most certainly do not recommend it, and will never use it again.
1.0 out of 5 stars
inadequate instructions,
By A Customer
This review is from: Ultimate Candy Book The (Paperback)
I haven't tried all the recipes in this book, but I bought it because I was interested in techniques for making fondant and chocolate-covered candy. However the techniques are not well described and simply wrong - for example the method for chocolate tempering leaves out several steps. I only discovered this when I went to another cookbook to find out what I was doing wrong. Now I use this book for ideas, but other methods for technique. This book is not for novices. Very disappointed.
5.0 out of 5 stars
candy's more than dandy,
By A Customer
This review is from: Ultimate Candy Book The (Paperback)
I bought this book because I had others in this series--love that ultimate ice cream and ultimate brownies--and I'm not disappointed. I'm not much of a candy maker, never made any in fact, but I've started with the simple things in here and it's been really fun. I love making these easy treats for my kids and friends. They've been a hit at church pot lucks! So despite what some people have said about this book, it's a great book for a great value--and I just love these guys on the morning show on Comcast!
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