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I Love Macarons by Hisako Ogita7/4/2023 ![]() The buttercream recipe was fine, and the cookies tasted great, though they looked like rejects thrown in the back dumpster of Pierre Herme. Having made my first batch, it wasn't a total loss. In fact, for my own oven, I found 15 min at 375 degrees far too long and/or high. I'm sure that baking in a larger American-style oven, which may be gas-powered, would require different baking instructions. Also, you'll notice in the macaron-baking section, our home pastry chef slides her baking pan in a Japanese-style oven the size of a big toaster oven. ![]() The ingredients section call for cornstarch-free powdered sugar I found this difficult to locate, and I live in San Francisco. More importantly, I don't think the recipes were tested with what's available in American stores and prepared in American kitchens. Some of the errors are just misplaced punctuation, but others are incorrect measurement conversions. However, on a practical level, its loaded with mistakes. As a fan of well-designed books and good food photography, I would buy it and keep it for this reason alone. ![]()
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