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Baking With Julia

Together with the country's most outstanding pastry chefs and bakers, Julia Child shares indispensable techniques, time-honored tips, and meticulously tested recipes that make home baking successful and satisfying.

Raspberry-Fig Crostata with Flo Braker and Leslie Mackie

23m 59s

Flo Braker, San Francisco Bay Area baker, author and cooking teacher, turns out two wonderfully crunchy butter galettes, one that's as a sweet treat with fresh berries and whipped cream, and another with tomatoes and savory herbs. Leslie Mackie, ownerof Seattle's Macrina Bakery, demonstrates a raspberry-fig crostata.

Episodes

  • Raspberry-Fig Crostata with Flo Braker and Leslie Mackie: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Raspberry-Fig Crostata with Flo Braker and Leslie Mackie

    S3 E13 - 23m 59s

    Flo Braker, San Francisco Bay Area baker, author and cooking teacher, turns out two wonderfully crunchy butter galettes, one that's as a sweet treat with fresh berries and whipped cream, and another with tomatoes and savory herbs. Leslie Mackie, ownerof Seattle's Macrina Bakery, demonstrates a raspberry-fig crostata.

  • Chocolate Tuiles & Gingersnaps with Gale Gand and David Blom: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Chocolate Tuiles & Gingersnaps with Gale Gand and David Blom

    S3 E12 - 23m 59s

    This episode of BAKING WITH JULIA features Gail Gand, pastry chef and owner of Chicago's Vanilla Bean Bakery and Florida baker David Blom. Gail shows Julia and viewers how to create a " not your usual" lemon meringue pie-for-one, while David Blom makes cookies: delicately curved tuiles and tasty gingersnaps.

  • Naan with Beatrice Ojakangas: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Naan with Beatrice Ojakangas

    S3 E11 - 23m 59s

    Toronto bakers, Jeffrey Alfor and Naomi Duguid, and cookbook author Beatrice Ojakangas visit this week's episode of BAKING WITH JULIA to make naan and swedish hardtack, types of flat breads.

  • Poppyseed Torte with Markus Farbinger: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Poppyseed Torte with Markus Farbinger

    S3 E10 - 23m 59s

    Master chef at The Culinary Institute of America, NY, Markus Farbinger teaches Julia Child how to create a special Viennese pastry treat, a poppy seed torte.

  • Vanilla Chiffon Chocolate Mousse Cake with Mary Bergin: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Vanilla Chiffon Chocolate Mousse Cake with Mary Bergin

    S3 E9 - 23m 59s

    Mary Bergin of Las Vegas, Nevada, head pastry chef for Wolfgang Puck's Spago Restaurant, demonstrates how to make a vanilla chiffon cake with a twist -- a full vanilla flavor and a thin, flexible shape, ideal for rolling with chocolate-laced walnut mousse.

  • Savory Pizza Rustica with Nick Malgieri: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Savory Pizza Rustica with Nick Malgieri

    S3 E8 - 23m 59s

    Nick Malgieri, master teacher at Peter Kump's New York Cooking School and author of several award-winning books on baking, demonstrates authentic Sicilian specialities like savory pizza rustica and fig-filled treats called "X" cookies.

  • Chocolate Mint Nightcaps with Marcel Desaulniers: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Chocolate Mint Nightcaps with Marcel Desaulniers

    S3 E7 - 23m 57s

    Marcel Desaulniers, chef and owner of the Trellis Restaurant in historic Williamsburg, Virginia, as well as the author and host of the television show "Death by Chocolate," teases the palate with oven-roasted plum cakes with chocolate sauce and chocolate-mint nightcaps.

  • Johnnycake Cobblers with Johanne Killeen: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Johnnycake Cobblers with Johanne Killeen

    S3 E6 - 23m 59s

    Johanne Killeen, chef and co-owner of Al Forno Restaurant in Providence, Rhode Island, bakes two American classics: gingerbread baby cake and Johnnycake cobblers.

  • Puff Pastry with Michel Richard: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Puff Pastry with Michel Richard

    S3 E4 - 23m 58s

    Master chef Michel Richard works his magic with puff pastry, making mini-pizzas and then deep-fried parmesan cheese twists. Master teacher Alice Medrich bakes vanilla hazelnut biscotti.

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