New European Baking: 99 Recipes for Breads, Brioches and Pastries

Laurel Kratochvila

New European Baking: 99 Recipes for Breads, Brioches and Pastries
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Prestel
Country
Germany
Published
1 December 2022
Pages
272
ISBN
9783791388397

New European Baking: 99 Recipes for Breads, Brioches and Pastries

Laurel Kratochvila

From sweet to savory, basic breads to fancy pastry, this elegant and thoroughly modern cookbook distills centuries of European tradition and heritage into mouthwatering recipes that home bakers can create in their own kitchens. Just like many pandemic-driven Americans, Europeans are turning on their ovens and rediscovering their roots through baking. This collection of nearly one hundred recipes is presented with elegant yet friendly flair by Laurel Kratochvila, a Jewish, American-born, boulangerie-trained baker with her own bagel shop in Berlin. Each chapter is dedicated to a certain kind of baked product - breads, brioches and enriched doughs, viennoiseries and laminated pastries, tartes and biscuits - and includes foundational recipes and time-honored techniques for dough-shaping, fermentation, seasoning, and fillings. Sprinkled throughout the book are profiles introducing readers to eleven other European bakers who are turning out delicious pastries and breads that reflect the cultural heritage of their home cities of Paris, Warsaw, Copenhagen, Madrid, London, and Lisbon. Recipes such as Baltic rye bread, toasted sesame challah, elderflower maritozzi, honey and fig tropezienne, lamb and fennel sausage rolls, soft pretzels, and spicy ginger caramel shortbreads combine Old World traditions with twenty-first century flavours. Filled with luscious photography, and suitable for bakers at every level of experience, this sophisticated yet accessible guide to home baking is crammed with centuries of European history. AUTHOR: Trained in France, Laurel Kratochvila is an American baker specializing in Jewish breads and pastries. Brought up in New England, she is now the owner of Fine Bagels book and bagel store in Berlin, Germany. Laurel is a food consultant practising recipe development and food styling (most recently for the hit Netflix show Unorthodox), and has given talks throughout Europe about Jewish foodways and baking history. 220 colour illustrations

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