Review: English Bread and Yeast Cooker
Avis de journaliste - Kirkus ReviewsThe ""background"" material of David's long-awaited work is in fact a very imposing foreground; nearly half the book is devoted to such matters as the botanical origins of wheat, the technology of milling both before and since the Industrial Revolution, the commercial manufacture of yeasts, and the history of ovens. What David is really out to do is to explore the role of bread in English life over the past few centuries. Hence her recipe-section, too, proves to be a magnificent historical anthology filled with lore from every source imaginable--Robert May, Hannah Glasse, Eliza Acton, forgotten Women's Institute compilations, professional baking manuals, letters from readers. Her own recipes, though detailed and to the point, are fairly few and usually involve basic rules or intelligent adaptations of directions from valuable sources. She goes as far afield as pizza, croissants, and a quiche involving Roquefort or other blue cheese. But her focus remains British breads, from Irish soda-bread (still called ""a cake of bread"" on its home turf) to crumpets (now, alas, sold in varieties apparently ""delivered direct from a plastics recycling plant""). Generous quotations from memoirists, novelists, travelers, and knowledgeable acquaintances are interspersed among the old and modern recipes--without seeming in the least like window-dressing. Karen Hess provides an introduction briefly discussing American ingredients and the history of US breadmaking, as well as translations of British into American measurements and occasional notes on equivalent ingredients. Exemplary.
Review: English Bread And Yeast Cookery
Avis d'utilisateur - GoodreadsForget the current deluge of books by wannabe celebrity bakers. This is a deeply personal exploration of baking by one of the all-time great cookery writers much-imitated by the many lesser writers who have followed in her footsteps. Most important of all, the recipes have never failed me.
Review: English Bread And Yeast Cookery
Avis d'utilisateur - GoodreadsElizabeth David is not just a cookery writer, she is a food writer of uncommon wit, sense, and integrity. Part recipe book, part historical document,this volume contains some pithy commentary on the ...
Review: English Bread And Yeast Cookery
Avis d'utilisateur - CJ - GoodreadsThe book's first half is a long (255 pages) discussion of how bread is made: the flours, the yeasts, the waters, the fats coupled with a diatribe on the state of "factory bread". I think she is ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: English Bread And Yeast Cookery
Avis d'utilisateur - Romi - GoodreadsThis is the chef d'oeuvre. Also the masterpiece if researching bread. But also practical because the recipes are also for today. Consulter l'avis complet
Review: English Bread And Yeast Cookery
Avis d'utilisateur - ^ - GoodreadsThe title describes this book perfectly. Between the covers the reader will find anything and everything they could possibly want to know on the subject; and once the reader begins baking real, yeast ... Consulter l'avis complet
Review: English Bread And Yeast Cookery
Avis d'utilisateur - Terri - GoodreadsI love this little book of Bread making. Consulter l'avis complet
