Stephen Mcfarland

Just Desserts Stephen Mcfarland

This book has been developed from my first years as a pastry chef. And while on my travels around the world, creating new recipes & desserts. So Many people ask me were do they start with pastry. My Moto is if you want to learn the real art of pastry, you start from the beginning. Many people think pastry is a science, but it's all about understanding the basics. For me, It's were my passion for pastry first began. As a young kid I'd watch my grandfather making bread every Saturday morning. Then, during the week making pastry for tarts. His pastry was the best pastry I've ever tasted, and it's down to the way the fat was incorporated into the flour. You wouldn't think that a small thing like that would make such a difference, but it does. Follow my recipes in the Basics chapter and you can master the not so difficult tasks of pastry making.