"Infused with personality as it shares fascinating cultural context, this beautiful cookbook is a must-have for home bakers. "
Stuffed with over 120 delicious recipes that draw readers into the rich world of baking from Poland (and beyond, as the subtitle states), Dobre Dobre is also so much more, thanks to Laurel Kratochvila’s wonderful knack for flavouring her easy-to-follow recipes with personal stories and enlightening historic detail. In essence, Dobre Dobre is recipe-focussed food writing at its most inspirational and informative — a big-hearted book that’s sure to leave readers with dozens of new bakes in their repertoire.
Whether sharing recipes for breads, rolls, bagels and buns, or cakes, cookies and candied croissants, Dobre Dobre is delivered in the context of Poland’s rich baking culture being the result of the country’s complex history. Taking bread as an example, Kratochvila shares: “Today, it would be hard to sum up Polish bread culture with one bagel, one roll, or one loaf.
Poland is a land of light white rolls, hearty rye sourdoughs, and fragrant onion breads. All of these breads have been shaped by history to some extent — whether they’re made using centuries-old regional recipes, or they’ve been affected by the standardization of communism and industrialization or by the influx of Western additives in the switch to capitalism”.
Chapters are devoted to different kinds of bakes, with personal favourites including pletzls (onion flatbreads), sunflower rye loaf, Baba Ponczowa (“If you want to start a fight with a French person, tell them that baba au rhum is Polish”), and karpatka, an “airy pudding cake — like a giant cream puff based on two craggy choux pastry layers meant to look like the peaks of the Carpathian Mountains”.
With lucid detail on technique, Dobre Dobre is also packed with personal tips that will tempt readers to try everything out, as will the mouth-watering close-shot photos that all but waft fresh-baked scents from the page.
Discover the vast and varied Polish baking tradition, old and new, Jewish and diasporic, in this authoritative collection of 120+ recipes from James Beard Award finalist Laurel Kratochvila.
| Primary Genre | Cookery, Food and Drink |
| Other Genres: | |
| Recommendations: |
Discover the vast and varied Polish baking tradition, old and new, Jewish and diasporic, in this authoritative collection of 120+ recipes from James Beard Award finalist Laurel Kratochvila.Poland's distinctive baking culture is a product of its rich and complicated history, from the World Wars to the rise of Communism to the cultural exchange that inevitably happens to a country with seven neighbors and endless migration. Step into the Polish piekarnia (bakery) and be greeted by an abundance of tiny cookies and rugelach, decorative layer cakes and cheesecakes, sweet yeast buns and danishes, and hearty rye breads and sourdough loaves.In this repertoire-expanding baking book, American-born, Berlin-based baker and 2023 James Beard Award finalist Laurel Kratochvila brings you more than 120 familiar and inventive treasures-innovative recipes of her own and from pioneering Polish bakers, including: Horseradish, Beet, and Summer Greens Bialys Sunflower Rye Loaf Plum Butter Carnival Donuts Rano Piekarnia's Summer Bilberry Buns Chocolate and Whipped Cream Warsaw Cake Karpatka (Cream and Choux Cake) Soft Iced Torun Gingerbread Rose and Almond Jewel Rugelach Twisted Krakow Bagels Sauerkraut and Mushroom Rolls And much more.
Dobre Dobre features in the following genres: Non-Fiction Books of the Month, Star Books, Cookery, Food and Drink, Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure, Cookery dishes and courses: desserts, Baking, National and regional cuisine, National and regional cuisine, Cookery dishes and courses / meals, Cookery dishes and courses: desserts, Baking
Hardback. £23.40, down from the £26.00 cover price. In Stock.
Dobre Dobre was written by Laurel Kratochvila and published by Chronicle Books
Dobre Dobre has 360 pages
£23.40, reduced from £26.00. In Stock.
.jpeg)
