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Title: Huge Disappointment
Review: First off, I've always been a KArthur fan-- even taken one of their courses-- & expected great things from this book based on the reviews & KA's rep. Instead, I've found these recipes disaster-prone (and yes, I'm a good baker). The gingersnap recipe, for example, yielded an impossible batter & disastrous cookies, and the timing on the wheat crackers left me with burned, inedible crackers. I found myself checking Joy of Cooking or Baking with Julia to discover that KArthur had left out steps (like the apparently all-important refrigeration step for gingersnaps; also, the baking time for the crackers is twice that of other cookbooks). Now I make nothing from KArthur w/out double-checking w/another cookbook first-- and really, then, what's the point? Obviously some of the recipes work (re: the other reviewers), but who needs a cookbook this carelessly hit-or-miss?
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