[.ca] Walnut Cookbook (ISBN 0898159482)

Enjoyable, but...:
Though delightful to read, and beautifully produced, the first recipe I tried turned out a disaster. Since I'm not inexperienced as a baker, I fault the imprecision of the directions--the sort of thing that, many years ago, Julia Child set herself to do away with once and for all in French cooking recipes. In any case, the walnut chocolate tart, with its delicious ingredients, turned out to be uncooked inside after the 20 minutes that were the only signal for doneness provided by the author and editors, and naturally fell apart upon removal from the pan. It's only one recipe, but I'll confess that I'm now hesitant to try the rest.