Warm Bread and Honey Cake: Home Baking from Around the World

by Pagrach-Chandra, Gaitri; Courtier, Vanessa

• ISBN13: 9781566567923
• ISBN10: 1566567920
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-01
• Publisher: Interlink Pub Group Inc

Summary

Containing a mix of familiar family favorites and unusual, exotic delicacies, this comprehensive collection is also a well-researched exploration of home-baking techniques and global ethnic history.

Author Biography

Gaitri Pagrach-Chandra has a multi-cultural background—in her own words “a convent-attending Guyanese Hindu of Indian ancestry, who was educated in North America and Europe and subsequently married into a European Jewish family.” A food historian and freelance translator, she received the Sophie Coe Award 2000 for food history, presented by the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery. Her book, Warm Bread and Honey Cake: Home Baking from around the World (Interlink, 2010), won the Guild of Food Writers Award for Cookbook of the Year 2010. She is also the author of Windmills in My Oven (Prospect), Sugar and Spice: Sweets and Treats from around the World (Interlink, 2013) and Het Nederlands Bakboek (Kosmos, 2012), which won the Dutch Cookery Book of the Year Award 2012. She lives in the Netherlands.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 6
Introduction	p. 9
Ingredients & Equipment	p. 12
Flatbreads
Plain and filled, baked and griddled, rolled, coiled, folded and more	p. 40
Yeast Breads, Cakes & Rolls
Pampering your dough for fantastic flavor	p. 62
Cakes & Cake-Making	p. 112
Fruit cakes	p. 118
Spice cakes	p. 130
Chocolate cakes	p. 152
Nut cakes	p. 168
Coconut cakes	p. 188
Other cakes	p. 198
Small Cakes, Pastries & Savories
Tiny treats, sweet and savory, to please every palate and ornament and occasion	p. 218
Leaf & Thread Pastries
Old Ladies' Necks, Palace Rolls and Nightingales' Nests: Baklava and its intriguing relatives	p. 262
Index	p. 312
Bibliography	p. 318
Acknowledgements	p. 320
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