Sweet!: From Agave to Turbinado, Home Baking with Every Kind of Natural Sugar and Sweetener

Sweet!: From Agave to Turbinado, Home Baking with Every Kind of Natural Sugar and Sweetener
by Mani Niall

Sweet!: From Agave to Turbinado, Home Baking with Every Kind of Natural Sugar and Sweetener
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Author: Mani Niall
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-10-07
ISBN: 1600940048
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books

Book Reviews of Sweet!: From Agave to Turbinado, Home Baking with Every Kind of Natural Sugar and Sweetener

Book Review: "Sweet!" is naturally, fabulously, dizzyingly wonderful!
Summary: 5 Stars

As an avid cookbook reader, healthy eater, and baking connoisseur, I confess, I am a cookbook skeptic, especially when it comes to baking. But "Sweet" delivered triplefold with down-to-earth clear recipes, seductive food photography, and the passionate writing of a true foodie and the deft of a sweetener guru. Academics and readerly types will praise the rich context he provides, such as "A Brief History of Sugar", which provides depth and context.

Unwilling to confine his recipes to the natural food sector of the grocery store and by no means keeping things in the white sugar family, the author navigates the entire sweetener spectrum by keenly choosing exactly the right sweetener for the job, whether molasses for a chewier snack or piloncillo for a more Mexican sweet.

Showcasing natural sweeteners and traditional sugars alike, "Sweet!" marries them tastefully, provocatively, and intriguingly while introducing readers to rarer ingredients with recipes like the Sorghum-glazed Sweet Potatoes or Orange and Fig Spelt Muffins. More common American favorite alternative sweeteners like applesauce represent in desserts like Applesauce Caramel Cake while agave nectar, the present day darling of alternative sweeteners figures heavily in recipes such as (dinner party guest fave) Hempseed-crusted Tofu with Agave-Mustard Sauce. My personal favorite? A flavor-hound's dream: Balsamic strawberry ice cream.

As a frequent dinner party hostess and head of a Bay Area cookbook club, I have already recommended this diverse, enchanting, Sweet(!) cookbook to friends and foodies of all eating preferences and levels of cooking talent.


Summary of Sweet!: From Agave to Turbinado, Home Baking with Every Kind of Natural Sugar and Sweetener

Over the last five-plus years, food manufacturers and grocery retailers have helped to make once-obscure sugars and sugar substitutes like muscovado, turbinado, golden syrup, and agave nectar more readily available to U.S. consumers than ever before. Now Sweet! introduces home cooks and bakers to dozens of traditional and cutting-edge sugars and sweeteners that also include jaggery, panela, molasses, cane syrup, and many others. Drawing upon his years of personal and professional experience cooking and baking with these sweeteners, Mani Niall shows home cooks how to take full advantage of the various tastes and textures they provide with more than 100 recipes for cookies and bars, cupcakes and cakes, quickbreads, custards, pies and tarts, candy, and many other treats that showcase each sweetener?s most distinctive qualities.

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