Upper Crust : Homemade Bread the French Way - Couverture rigide

Fréchet, Marie-Laure

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 2081517078 ISBN 13 : 9782081517073

Editeur : FLAMMARION, 2021

Synopsis

An introduction to the French art of baking bread-including ingredient selection, levain cultivation, and bread-making techniques-with more than one hundred illustrated recipes.The humble baguette is the quintessential staple of French cuisine, but the country has a vast and diverse bread-baking tradition. With an introduction to the history of French bread, guidelines to help the home baker select the right ingredients - grain and flour varieties, water, salt, and levain-this book details the step-by-step techniques and fundamentals of bread making : from feeding the levain, kneading and preparing the dough, and baking, to more than 100 recipes. Eighteen expert bakers and pastry chefs share the sweet and savory recipes that have forged the French bakery's enviable reputation-from rounds of rustic pain de campagne or loaves of olive and oregano bread to regional favorites like fougasse or the Basque taloas tortillas.A new generation of bakers has expanded the classic French repertoire to include original creations-such as charcoal-sesame baguettes ; matcha swirl bread ; buckwheat and seaweed rolls ; and fig, hazelnut, and honey rye bread. In their French style, they also reinterpret heritage breads from across the world-including pita, focaccia, bagels, cheesy Georgian khachapuri, Swedish crispbread, and Indian chapati. Additional bread-based recipes include “surprise bread” finger sandwiches, croque monsieur, onion soup with cheese croutons, and desserts such as French toast and kouign-amann. For each recipe, pictograms indicate the level of difficulty, time and material required, and whether a recipe is gluten-free.This is the ultimate reference book for baking homemade bread the French way.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Marie-Laure Fréchet est une auteure engagée. Journaliste culinaire, originaire du nord de la France, elle souhaite transmettre et renouer avec des bases saines de cuisine. Elle a publié Encyclopédie du pain maison (Flammarion, 2019), Encyclopédie de la viennoiserie maison (2020) et L'Encyclopédie de l'alimentation durable (2021).

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

The quintessential staple of French cuisine is the humble baguette, but the country’s bread baking tradition?along with variations assimilated from other world cultures?offers a vast repertoire. With an introduction to the history of French bread, guidelines to help the home baker select the right ingredients?grain and flour varieties, water, salt, and starter?this book details the step-by-step techniques and fundamentals of bread making: from feeding the starter, kneading and preparing the dough, and baking, to more than 100 recipes.

Eighteen expert bakers, pastry makers, or chefs share the sweet and savory recipes that have forged the French bakery’s enviable reputation?from round pain de campagne or olive and oregano bread to regional breads like fougasse or the Basque talos. A new generation of chefs have developed original creations such as black baguette with sesame, Matcha tea rolled bread, buckwheat and seaweed galets, and honey, fig, and hazelnut rye. A chapter devoted to traditional breads from all around the world, such as pita, focaccia, bagels, Georgian khachapuri, and Norwegian polar bread are reinterpreted in the French style. Recipes include pains surprise, croque-monsieur, onion soup with cheese croutons, and desserts such as pain perdu and kouign-amann. For each recipe, pictograms indicate the level of difficulty, time required, type of starter, and whether a recipe is gluten-free.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: FLAMMARION
• Date d'édition: 2021
• ISBN 10: 2081517078
• ISBN 13: 9782081517073
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 448
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible