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Recipes and Blueprints for Twelve Classic American Homes
Clarkson Potter
November 2008
On Sale: October 21, 2008
144 pages ISBN: 0307406784 EAN: 9780307406781 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
What happens when an architect who is also an avid baker
gets together with a house-obsessed pastry chef? Twelve
classic American homes rendered in gingerbread. Are you dreaming of a colonial Christmas? Here’s your chance
to build a traditional Cape Cod house in freshly baked
gingerbread, complete with breath-mint pinnacles, Twizzler
shingles, and a brick-red fruit-leather chimney. Prefer
nineteenth-century New York elegance? Why not whip up an
urban brownstone, embellished with crushed butterscotch
windows, Tootsie Roll staircase posts, and a front courtyard
tiled in mini Chiclets. Is the Santa Fe look more your
style? Try a gingerbread pueblo, landscaped with rock-candy
cacti and turbinado-sugar sand. Here to guide you through every step of building your
gingerbread dream house is The Gingerbread Architect,
created by New York— and London-based architect Susan
Matheson and professional baker Lauren Chattman. Featuring
detailed blueprints and elevations of the houses alongside
baking directions and essential construction notes, this
modern guide to the traditional holiday craft of creating
gingerbread houses has projects for bakers of all levels,
from novice to advanced. For each house, Matheson and Chattman provide historical
context and descriptions of prominent architectural
features, demonstrating how to execute those characteristics
in gingerbread and candy. Detailed instructions cover
everything from baking and assembling the walls to piping
icing and landscaping the yard. And to help match
gingerbread houses to bakers–and their little helpers–each
house has a difficulty rating, ranging from one gingerbread
man to four. With full-color photographs of the finished houses, tips on
the construction schedule, baking and candy resource guides,
a glossary of architectural terms, and instructions for
lighting the houses from within, The Gingerbread Architect
is the complete guide to the ultimate family holiday baking
project–for anyone with a keen eye and a sweet tooth.
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