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Dutch Oven Baking
Every Dutch oven cook should own a cookbook devoted to baking. Prize-winning recipes and tips from a world champion breadmaster Bruce Tracy is a master of baking in Dutch ovens and serves up some of the finest breads and treats you'll ever taste. With this cookbook, he offers some of his prize-winning recipes and tips for cast iron baking. Give his Cheese Onion Rolls, Challah Holiday Bread with Parmesan Dipping Butter, and Orange Caramel Bubble Crown a try. You'll be glad you did!
Bruce and his wife Vickie competed in Dutch oven cook-offs from 1993 until 2005. They won dozens of competitions, including the International Dutch Oven Society World Championship. He has long been recognized as a Dutch oven "breadmaster," and enjoys teaching the art of Dutch oven cooking. Bruce and his wife, Vickie, live in Ogden, Utah.
Bruce and his wife Vickie competed in Dutch oven cook-offs from 1993 until 2005. They won dozens of competitions, including the International Dutch Oven Society World Championship. He has long been recognized as a Dutch oven "breadmaster," and enjoys teaching the art of Dutch oven cooking. Bruce and his wife, Vickie, live in Ogden, Utah.
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127 pages, Hardcover
First published March 1, 2013
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July 25, 2013
This is a compact book that aims to provide a bit of guidance and many recipes for baking with a Dutch oven.
The author has tried to make the book suitable for both expert and absolute beginner alike, giving a range of recipes for breads, dessert items and other baked goods. The overview is quite extensive and informative despite it being rather short and concise, although perhaps too concise for a true beginner but then maybe a more general book would better serve as an introduction, allowing one to graduate to a more specialised book such as this.
On to the recipes, split into chapters for sauces, toppings, starters & crusts; crisps, tarts & pies; upside-down cakes and cobblers; cakes; quick breads; breads and rolls. Not every recipe features its own photograph, which is a shame, as some of them are not so easy to visualise despite the title - a Toasted Almond Upside-Down Cake should be fairly descriptive, but if you are a beginner how might you know what an Upside-Down Cake is and how it should look? One annoying little thing is the use of a faux fabric paper background. That and some strange "old world" typeface for titles manage to make things look a little gimmicky.
Each recipe feels rather compressed, or overly to-the-point, which again might not be a problem for the more experienced Dutch oven cook, yet for the beginner it may feel a little daunting. When it comes to the range of recipes, things seem to look up and browsing through the book gave a fairly long list of items to add to this reviewer's future "to do" list. Jalapeño Braid looks, thanks to the simple yet great accompanying photograph, a rather nice addition to any table. Challah Holiday Bread with Parmesan Dipping Butter sounds intriguing, from the recipe, yet here is a prime example of how a missing photograph makes a world of difference. We often eat with our eyes and, sadly, when there are lots of recipes WITH photographs, it is relatively easy to skip on by and miss something that might otherwise be unmissable!
The book ends with a detailed index which allows you to delve in both by recipe name and key ingredient. Sadly the niggles in this book left this reviewer in two minds. If the design had been a little less quirky and if there had been photographs of each main recipe this would have probably been a good four YUM (star) book. As it is, it is a bit of a take-it-or-leave-it type of thing. If you really have a need for this and you find you gel with it, it is a good companion, yet…
Dutch Baking Oven, written by Bruce Tracy and published by Gibbs Smith. ISBN 9781423625629, 128 pages. Typical price: GBP10.99. YYY.
// This review appeared in YUM.fi and is reproduced here in full with permission of YUM.fi. YUM.fi celebrates the worldwide diversity of food and drink, as presented through the humble book. Whether you call it a cookery book, cook book, recipe book or something else (in the language of your choice) YUM will provide you with news and reviews of the latest books on the marketplace. //
The author has tried to make the book suitable for both expert and absolute beginner alike, giving a range of recipes for breads, dessert items and other baked goods. The overview is quite extensive and informative despite it being rather short and concise, although perhaps too concise for a true beginner but then maybe a more general book would better serve as an introduction, allowing one to graduate to a more specialised book such as this.
On to the recipes, split into chapters for sauces, toppings, starters & crusts; crisps, tarts & pies; upside-down cakes and cobblers; cakes; quick breads; breads and rolls. Not every recipe features its own photograph, which is a shame, as some of them are not so easy to visualise despite the title - a Toasted Almond Upside-Down Cake should be fairly descriptive, but if you are a beginner how might you know what an Upside-Down Cake is and how it should look? One annoying little thing is the use of a faux fabric paper background. That and some strange "old world" typeface for titles manage to make things look a little gimmicky.
Each recipe feels rather compressed, or overly to-the-point, which again might not be a problem for the more experienced Dutch oven cook, yet for the beginner it may feel a little daunting. When it comes to the range of recipes, things seem to look up and browsing through the book gave a fairly long list of items to add to this reviewer's future "to do" list. Jalapeño Braid looks, thanks to the simple yet great accompanying photograph, a rather nice addition to any table. Challah Holiday Bread with Parmesan Dipping Butter sounds intriguing, from the recipe, yet here is a prime example of how a missing photograph makes a world of difference. We often eat with our eyes and, sadly, when there are lots of recipes WITH photographs, it is relatively easy to skip on by and miss something that might otherwise be unmissable!
The book ends with a detailed index which allows you to delve in both by recipe name and key ingredient. Sadly the niggles in this book left this reviewer in two minds. If the design had been a little less quirky and if there had been photographs of each main recipe this would have probably been a good four YUM (star) book. As it is, it is a bit of a take-it-or-leave-it type of thing. If you really have a need for this and you find you gel with it, it is a good companion, yet…
Dutch Baking Oven, written by Bruce Tracy and published by Gibbs Smith. ISBN 9781423625629, 128 pages. Typical price: GBP10.99. YYY.
// This review appeared in YUM.fi and is reproduced here in full with permission of YUM.fi. YUM.fi celebrates the worldwide diversity of food and drink, as presented through the humble book. Whether you call it a cookery book, cook book, recipe book or something else (in the language of your choice) YUM will provide you with news and reviews of the latest books on the marketplace. //
February 11, 2016
It had some good information about baking and temperatures vs how many coals for beginners like me who have no clue how much of them to use. It had lots of good from scratch recipes but it also has a bunch that use cake mixes or baking mixes. I'm looking for more of the scratch type recipes so I will try those and skip the mix recipes!
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