Babette's Bread - Babette Kourelos

Babette's Bread

Stories, Recipes, and the Fundamental Techniques of Artisan Bread
Buch | Hardcover
288 Seiten
2024
Touchwood Editions (Verlag)
978-1-77151-410-1 (ISBN)
31,15 inkl. MwSt
"This primer on bread from Babette Frances Kourelos is for new bakers and pros alike." —Town and Country Magazine

From crusty baguettes to bubbly focaccias and robust sourdoughs, Babette’s Bread is a comprehensive and unpretentious guide to bread-making, with useful advice on how to make fresh homemade bread fit into even the busiest of schedules.

For Babette Kourelos, the happenstance baking of a humble cottage loaf completely changed the trajectory of her life, leading her away from a career in law to answer a different calling: bread. Before long she’d begun to fill orders from friends and neighbours. Seeking more comprehensive training, she undertook an apprenticeship with renowned French master baker Gerard Rubaud in the woods of Vermont. Bringing her newfound skills back to her native South Africa she opened a wildly successful bakery in Johannesburg’s Maboneng Precinct, which she operated until moving to Canada in 2020.

Babette’s Bread is an accessible primer dedicated to demystifying and simplifying this nourishing staple skill. In her introductory chapter, Babette guides home bakers through each stage of the bread-making process, from sourcing quality ingredients to fermentation, shaping, baking, and storing. She then moves into chapters on straight dough breads, pre-fermented, cold fermented, sourdough, sweet and enriched, rye, whole grain, steamed, and quick breads.

With her simple, unpretentious approach, Babette provides newbie and seasoned bakers everything they need to take back this affordable, soulful domestic practice. From a basic white sandwich loaf to, pizza dough, koulouri, challah, hot cross buns, stollen, beer bread, cornbread, pitas, bagels, pretzels, and buttermilk rusks—Babette’s Bread takes inspiration from around the world and offers a range of mouth-watering breads to try.

With more than 60 recipes, accompanied by photos of delectable loaves and sun-filled work spaces, and interspersed with anecdotes from Babette’s childhood, her apprenticeship in Vermont, and the day-to-day running of her bakery, this is a complete guide to fitting bread-making into your life.

Babette Kourelos is a baker and teacher currently based in Vancouver, BC. She apprenticed under the late French Master Baker Gerard Rubaud in Vermont and ran an artisan bread bakery and baking studio in Johannesburg (South Africa) for several years before moving to Canada in 2020. She has been a guest speaker at several Women in Business events and a judge at the World Bread Awards USA. You can find her online at babettesbread.com.

Preface

Introduction

Essential Bead-Baking Tools

Ingredients

Wheat Farming & Milling

Baking Steps

Straight Dough Breads (Direct Method)


Old-Fashioned Cottage Loaf with Spelt

The Government Loaf (Soft White Sandwich Bread)

Brown Sandwich Bread

Rustic Country Loaf

Rustic Flatbreads

Simple Milk Loaf



Pre-Fermented Breads


General Guidelines

Rustic Country Bread with Pâte

Fermentée

Kalamata Olive Breadsticks

Baguette with Poolish

Epi Baguette (Wheat Stalk Baguette or Ear of Wheat Bread)

Ciabatta with Biga



Cold Fermented Breads


Cold Fermented Focaccia

Fougasse

Pizza Dough

Koulouri (Greek Sesame Bread Rings)

Pot Bread (Potbrood)



Welcome to the Wild Yeast . . . Here There Be Microorganisms


Sourdough 101

Beginner’s Sourdough

Everyday Easy Eating Rye

The Apprentice Loaf

Gérard’s Sourdough (Pain au Levain)

Greek Village Bread (Horiatiko Psomi)

Sourdough Sandwich Bread



Sweet & Enriched Breads


Kitke (Challah)

Milk Bread

Hot Cross Buns

Raisin Bread with Cinnamon & Aniseed

Cinnamon Buns

Marzipan Stollen



Rye & Whole-Grain Breads


Simplest Whole-Grain or Rye Bread

Vollkornbrot (Whole-Kernel Bread)

Whole-Grain Seed Loaf

Beer bread (Inspired by Øllebrød)

The 33% Loaf

Oat & Honey Loaf



Rolls, Buns and Wraps


Pita Pockets & Gyro Pita Wraps

Portuguese Rolls (Papo Secos)

Mosbolletjies (Grape Must Buns)

Dinner Rolls, Burger Buns, & Hot Dog Rolls

BBQ Bread (Roosterkoek)



Boiled, Fried, & Steamed Breads


Montreal Bagels

Laugenstangen (Pretzel Rolls)

Dombolo (Traditional African Steamed Bread)

Vetkoek (Fried Bread)

Fried Dough Variations

Dad’s Pancakes (Pannekoek)



Quick Breads


Cornbread (Mieliebrood)

Scones

Wholemeal Soda Bread

Mandy’s Savoury Cheese & Herb Bread

Vegan Banana Bread



Breads for the Pantry


Oumie’s Buttermilk Rusks (Karringmelk Beskuit)

Bread Rusks

Grissini

Guilty Conscience Crackers

Bruna’s Egg Pasta



Old Bread


Skordalia (Greek Garlic & Bread Dip)

Mama Mou’s Garlic Bread

Gérard’s French Toast

BBQ Toasted Sandwiches (Braaibroodjies)

Gogo’s Turkey Stuffing

Breadcrumbs



Follow the Breadcrumbs

Final Thoughts and Recommendations

Acknowledgements

Further Reading

Index

Conversion Chart

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo Photographs and spot illustrations to describe step-by-step process of baking bread
Verlagsort Victoria
Sprache englisch
Maße 184 x 254 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Essen / Trinken Grundkochbücher
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Essen / Trinken Backen
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Essen / Trinken Länderküchen
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik Regional- / Landesgeschichte
ISBN-10 1-77151-410-8 / 1771514108
ISBN-13 978-1-77151-410-1 / 9781771514101
Zustand Neuware
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