Biscuit, Cookie and Cracker Process and Recipes

Book excerpt: Biscuit, Cookie and Cracker Process and Recipes: A practical reference for a wide range of recipes and production information for crackers, snack crackers, semi-sweet biscuits, short doughs, cookies and sandwich biscuits. These recipes have been developed in Europe, Asia, Australia, North America and South America. Beginning with an explanation of the production process and formulations, this book provides easy-access information for developing new biscuits, cookies and crackers for international markets. All the process details, formulations, technical information are based on the notes and files of the late Glyn Sykes. Glyn gained wide experience over a working lifetime in the biscuit baking industry, working with over fifty biscuit manufacturers world-wide. Glyn Sykes family have made the information available for the new book, which is a valuable reference for professionals in the biscuit baking industry and students in the food technology field. - Includes more than 200 recipes and images to show the process of making crackers, semi-sweet biscuits, short dough biscuits and cookies - Presents practical recipes as the basis for development of products using locally available ingredients and production equipment - Provides insight from long experience in the baking industry world-wide