Professional baking / Wayne Gisslen ; photography by J. Gerard Smith ; with a foreword by Andre J. Cointreau.

Contents: The baking profession --Basic professional skills : bakeshop math and sanitation --Baking and pastry equipment --Ingredients --Basic baking principles --Understanding yeast doughs --Understanding artisan breads --Lean yeast doughs --Rich yeast doughs --Quick breads --Doughnuts, fritters, pancakes, and waffles --Basic syrups, creams, and sauces --Pies --Pastry basics --Tarts and special pastries --Cake mixing and baking --Assembling and decorating cakes --Specialty cakes, gateaux, and torten --Cookies --Custards, puddings, mousses, and souffles --Frozen desserts --Fruit desserts --Dessert presentation --Chocolate --Marzipan, nougatine, and pastillage --Sugar techniques --Baking for special diets. Appendices: Large-quantity measurement --Metric conversion factors --Decimal equivalents of common fractions --Approximate volume equivalents of dry foods --Temperature calculations for yeast doughs --Eggs and safety.

Provides step-by-step instructions for professional baking techniques; covers baking principles, equipment, and ingredients; and includes more than nine hundred recipes as well as tips on baking for special diets.