Baking with Julia
Julia Child and her guests demonstrate recipes, techniques and tricks of the trade that teach viewers how to make great breads, pies, cobblers, cookies, cakes and pastries, both sweet and savory.
Upcoming Broadcasts:
David Blom (#212)
Duration:
25:29 CC Stereo TVG
David Blom, pastry chef at Chef Allen's Restaurant in North Miami, shows Julia Child how to bake traditional Polish cakes known as babas and savarin. He uses a single recipe to create the spongy dough, which is baked and sweetened further by soaking in a sugar syrup. He then flavors them with a variety of liqueurs, including rum, kirsch, and champagne. The cakes are garnished with fresh fruits, whipped cream, and a homemade custard flavored with vanilla bean.
Channels and Airdates:
Norman Love (#213)
Duration:
25:29 CC Stereo TVG
Norman Love, executive pastry chef at the Ritz-Carlton in Naples, Florida shows chef Julia Child how to make savory puffs and eclairs. The dough is flavored with cucumber and red onion juice, and is one of the only pastries that is cooked twice: once in a saucepan, and again in the oven. The puffs are filled with a salmon mousse, while the eclairs are split and filled with a mascarpone cheese and vegetable medley.
Channels and Airdates:
Martha Stewart, Part 1 of 2 (#301)
Duration:
25:23 CC Stereo TVG
Martha Stewart, a magazine editor, star of her own television show and author of the popular "Weddings" book joins Julia to bake one grand and glorious three-tiered wedding cake. Martha prepares the batter and bakes each layer in graduated diamond-shaped cake forms. While the cake bakes, and then chills, Martha creates a variety of delicately realistic and delicious marzipan fruits, right down to the little stems and leaves. She also makes and chills enough vanilla rum buttercream to ice the entire cake.
Channels and Airdates:
Martha Stewart, Part 2 of 2 (#302)
Duration:
24:59 CC Stereo TVG
Guest Martha Stewart returns to complete her three-tiered wedding cake decorated with yellow buttercream icing and handmade marzipan fruit in this second of a two-part episode. Steward puts together the individual cakes that serve as the building blocks of this dessert, inserting a baked crunchy almond and egg white wafer and apricot jam between individual layers and decorating with the icing and candy fruit garnish.
Channels and Airdates:
Nancy Silverton (#303)
Duration:
25:24 CC Stereo TVG
Chef Julia Child observes Nancy Silverton, owner of La Brea Bakery in Los Angeles, as she bakes a fresh creme fraiche custard brioche tarte with fresh fruit poached white wine sauce.






