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Professional Cooking: 10th Edition

By Wayne Gisslen

Published 2025

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Spices are discussed in detail in Chapter 6. The most important spices in the bakeshop are cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, cloves, ginger, caraway, cardamom, allspice, anise, and poppy seed.

Because spices are used in small quantities, it is not much more expensive to use the best quality, and the results are superior.
Spices should be measured by weight unless the quantity is so small that measuring spoons are necessary.