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House of the Rising Bun: Baking New Orleans ReviewI assumed from looking at only online pictures this would be a small paperback book, which it is. What I did not expect to get was a book rife with errors -- particularly frustrating for a cookbook. I'm a pretty experienced cook, particularly of Southern cuisine, so I can probably figure out what the author meant to say or forgot to include, but if you've never made some of the stuff in this book you'd be lost.For example, there's a recipe for Banana's Foster Cupcakes which looks great but requires a "Banana mixture already prepared" in the ingredients list. Nowhere in the book does it say exactly what that is. Not sure if it's just a couple of mashed up ripe bananas or what. Likewise, there are several recipes that seem to be incomplete, i.e. some cake recipes have accompanying frosting recipes and some just call for "cream cheese frosting" with no recipe for it. Also, there are numerous grammatical errors (the very first recipe instructs you to "9. ut into 3x9 inch rectangles"...come on, really?), which make it seem like the book was just thrown together and not even proof read.
Another thing - one of the recipies in here appears to be a copy from another book. I just happened to make a Doberge cake for Thanksgiving, so I had been online looking at different recipes. The recipe I used was cited on nola.com as coming from the book "Let's Bake with Beulah Ledner," the lady credited with inventing this cake. I was surprised to see the recipe for "Titillating Doberge Torte" in this book was identical, the author just changed the name of the cake, filling and icings to fit the books wierd bad girl theme. I mean it was word for word except for the names.
As for the good, what I've made so far is not bad. The po-boy bread is very good, but not exactly what I'd call a clone of the New Orleans Po-Boy bread (the crust wasn't flaky). Some New Orleans foods are notoriously difficult to replicate in a home kitchen, so I give this book props for coming close. I also plan to make a few desserts for Christmas. However, because the book was so put together in such a sloppy manner (and who knows how many of these recipes were copied and pasted from online sources), I wouldn't recommend this book to an inexperienced cook.House of the Rising Bun: Baking New Orleans Overview
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