Nicole Hampton (1)

Like the author, I also live at 5000 feet elevation in Colorado. I really appreciate the detailed instructions on how to modify any recipe for elevation. Also, the recipes presented in this book are very detailed in their instructions, leaving no room for doubt. So far, I've only made the banana bread, but it came out absolutely perfect, and is my new go to recipe. Highly recommended for bakers at elevation.

[Note: the publisher provided me with a copy of this book for review through LibraryThing's early reviewers.]… (mehr)

I’m a transplant living at 5,600 feet, so baking can sometimes be a challenge. I have mostly managed to figure out what adjustments I need to make to not have cookies spread out like flattened pancakes on the baking sheet and have managed to just stay away from yeast baking altogether. This is a very handsome, high-altitude cookbook, with lots of photographs and some great looking recipes. And it’s always nice to have some new options and also some baking hints and suggestions on hand. I tried the cinnamon coffee cake and the apple-oat muffins and both recipes were easy to follow and the results were yummy. Some of the recipes tend to build on other recipes in the book, for instance, there’s a recipe for banana-chocolate toast which basically calls for toasted chocolate chunk cranberry bread (page 29) spread with Nutella and topped with bananas slices and served. It hardly warranted an entire recipe page for what is essentially a serving suggestion. But hey, now I need to try the recipe for chocolate chunk cranberry bread!… (mehr)

I remember when I was a kid my mom tried to bake chocolate chip cookies at our family's vacation cabin (elevation approximately 9000 feet). When she could never get them to come out right, she called the Hershey help line, and this is probably apocryphal but the way she always told it, they were bemused at the thought of her trying to bake in an unpressurized aircraft.

So my favorite part of this book is the general instructions for how to adapt any recipe to high altitude. Mom would have loved that too. The basic recipes for things like pie crust and pizza dough are super useful, and I naturally gravitated to the bakery treats section for the orange pound cake. Highly recommended, this is a book I will use often; thanks to the publisher and LibraryThing for the copy I received through the Early Reviewers giveaway.… (mehr)