For Cooks who will have to Bake at High Altitudes

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By Madeleine Kamman

Published 1997

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Bakers born in mountainous regions have no difficulty adjusting their recipes, because the women in their families have done it for generations. Such is not the case for the people who move to a mountainous area or the young traveling cook who arrives in Colorado and starts baking biscuits in the middle of the Rockies. These were towering biscuits; the experience was repeated when I forgot completely that the little town in Wyoming I had settled in for vacation sits way up there, around 3,2