Artistic Sugar Work
and Petit Fours. Maclaren & Sons Ltd., London & Glasgow. "Craft" Series.
FIRST AND SOLE EDITION 1934. Square 8vo. 205x205mm. 1fep. Half title. [1] Title page. [1] 1p Introduction. [1] 1p Section 1. [1] 9-175. 1p Contents. 1fep. With many b/w photographs in text. Full maroon cloth binding. With gilt lettering on the front board and spine. In very good condition with very slight rubbing at the top and bottom of the spine only.
- Paul Laurent was the Chef Patissier and Confectioner for 10 years at the Langham Hotel, London. This is a book dedicated to other professionals. Definitely not something the housewife would browse to find a little table decoration to make for a Saturday evening dinner party. The b/w photographs do not really do justice to this area of gastronomic craftmanship. They still manage to show that when done well, pieces of sugar work can surprise and amaze the uninformed. In the brigades of big professional kitchens, chefs competent and skilled in the difficult art of sugar-pulling and sugar-blowing were/are very rare. Books on sugar-work are rarer still.
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11077