Pillsbury Editors - Pillsbury baking hacks: fun and inventive recipes with refrigerated dough

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Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Pillsbury Company.

Title: Pillsbury baking hacks: fun and inventive recipes with refrigerated dough / [Pillsbury editors].

Description: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017058456 (print) | LCCN 2018003381 (ebook) | ISBN 9781328503817 (ebook) | ISBN 9781328497857 (trade paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Baking. | Cooking (Bread) | Dough. | Cooking, American. | LCGFT: Cookbooks.

Classification: LCC TX765 (ebook) | LCC TX765 .P51933 2018 (print) | DDC 641.8 / dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017058456

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Global Business Solutions Director: Heather Polen

Global Business Solutions Manager: Maja Qamar

Executive Editor: Cathy Swanson Wheaton

Photography: General Mills Photography Studios and Image Library

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Editor-in-Chief: Deb Brody

Executive Editor: Anne Ficklen

Editorial Associate: Sarah Kwak

Managing Editor: Marina Padakis

Production Editor: Helen Seachrist

Cover Design: Tai Blanche

Interior Design and Layout: Tai Blanche

Senior Production Coordinator: Kimberly Kiefer

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Dear Baker,

We know family comes first at your houseyou want to feed your bunch well and enjoy eating together. But like us, you dont always have a lot of time to spend in the kitchen. Let us help! Pillsbury Baking Hacks gives you great ways to get meals on the table, which both you and your family will love.

This book is loaded with hackstricks weve learned to cut prep time, leaving you with more time for family fun! Making meals at home is easy with these clever recipes. (We challenge you to find anyone that can their resist their yumminess!)

Be inspired with the customizability you can have with Pillsbury dough! Scrumptious sweet breads to wake the sleepyheads, crazy-simple weeknight dinners to help you survive those impossibly busy nights, as well as appetizers and desserts that bring on the wows! Look for the features that each highlight one type of recipewith 3 completely different variations. Youll also love the ingenious, no-fuss food ideas to make your own creations with Pillsbury dough products.

Make it easy, make it fun with Pillsbury!

The PillsburyTM Editors

Features

WHAT IS A HACK?

Feeding your busy family, whipping up a party appetizer thats sure to be a hit or bringing the perfect dessert to a potluck can be daunting. What you need are some terrific shortcuts in your cooking arsenal. Hacks are just thatclever shortcuts. Pillsbury dough products are great hacks in and of themselves. They get you to hot, homemade deliciousness faster than starting from flour.

WEVE LAYERED THE HACKS

At first glance, you might think this is just an ordinary cookbook, but its not! Pillsbury biscuits arent the only thing with a lot of layers. Weve loaded up the layers of hacks for you in this book to help you solve all those times when you need to whip up something fast. Look at all the help youre getting in the kitchen:

Traditional hacks All the recipes are hacks because they start with a Pillsbury refrigerated dough product, saving you time in the kitchen.

Recipe Hacks These features show you twists on a specific type of Pillsbury dough recipe. The clever variations give you options and inspiration to create your own recipes using what you have on hand or your favorite ingredients!

Product Hacks Focus on a Pillsbury dough product and see the possibilities! Well show you easy and creative ways to use it. (We were thinking outside the can for these!)

Kitchen Hacks These are our favorite cooking hacks from the test kitchens, which we love to share. They save time and make your kitchen experiences a breeze. Look for these sprinkled throughout the book.

WEVE KEPT IT SIMPLE

We know youre looking for ways to get food on the table without spending all day in the kitchen. Look for the recipes with these icons: 3-Ingredient , 5-Ingredient and quick prep . These super-simple recipes are surprisingly perfect for your family or to serve to company, and youll love how fast they come together!

When counting ingredients to see if they make the mark, we didnt include regular salt, pepper, water, cooking spray if used to grease a pan, or flour if used just to dust the work surface. Most likely, you have these on hand and wont need to make a special trip to the store for them, as you might for other ingredients.

Recipes that need only 20 minutes or less of prep time make for easy work in the kitchen. Prep time is active preparation, where you need to be working with or paying close attention to the food (not things like baking or refrigerating, where you can walk away and do something else).

DOUGH DOS

Working with refrigerated dough is a snap when you know these tips:

Store dough on a shelf in the refrigerator. Temperatures in the door or a crisper may be too warm or cool to store the dough properly.

Keep dough refrigerated and in the package or can until you are ready to open and use it. Dont allow it to sit at room temperature very long or it can become warm and sticky, making it harder to work with.

Keep your dough products in the refrigeratordont freeze them. When frozen, the leavening will be inactivated, causing the dough not to rise. Cookie dough and pie crust are exceptions. Look on the package for directions on how to freeze these products.

Always use dough by the expiration date on the end of the can or on the package. Exceptions are cookie dough and pie crust, which can be refrigerated up to 2 months.

For the dough to bake correctly, always preheat the oven and bake on the middle rack of your oven unless the recipe indicates otherwise.

Serve refrigerated dough products warm from the oven unless the recipe indicates otherwise.

Dough products should not be cooked in the microwave oven as they will not rise or bake properly or brown.

EMERGENCY SUBSTITUTIONS

Sometimes you just dont have the right ingredient or time to run to the store. Look here for substitutions to use in a pinch: