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The Pie and Pastry Bible

Rose Levy Beranbaum

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Yotam Ottolenghi loved it
I used this book quite a lot, because she has a fantastic method of pastry-making for the whole range of different pastries. She has great recipes for things like Danish pastries, and basic short crust and shortbread pastry – and she has a very clear voice. She enjoys herself, and you can tell she's having fun. It's not one of these heavy books with centuries of tradition behind it, and that's exactly what I like so much about her style.

on fivebooks.com · 11 Mar 2011

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.