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The Baking Bible

November 1, 2014 by Lois Britton 4 Comments

 

Rose Levy Beranbaum's latest cookbook, released this week

Rose Levy Beranbaum’s latest cookbook, released this week

Rose Levy Beranbaum is a baker and award winning cookbook author. A star in the food world, she often appears on major television shows and hosted her own series on PBS. Much has been said of Rose and her baking prowess. “The most meticulous cook who ever lived,” is the quote the resonates with me. Spend some time with her latest book. The Baking Bible, and I think you’ll agree.

One of the first things I did as a food blogger was to join the Heaven Cake Bakers, a group of food bloggers, led by Marie Wolf, as they baked their way through Rose’s Heavenly Cakes, doing one cake every week. Every Monday, we all posted our version of the week’s cake, and on Thursday, Marie would do a recap of our efforts. My favorite part of the bake along was checking out the other posts and reading Marie’s witty version of our successes and failures.

Not too many weeks into the group, I realized that I now had eight different varieties of sugar in the pantry, and a growing collections of liqueurs. Not that I’m complaining, mind you. It was an education, and Rose is a detail oriented teacher.  I learned so much about technique and the science behind it while baking my way through Rose’s Heavenly Cakes.

I had mixed feelings when the project was over. I was thrilled to have been part of the group, there was a sense of accomplishment for having followed through on the weekly commitment, a little relief that it was over, and I knew that I was going to miss these baking bloggers who had become my virtual friends.

Not long after I moved to Poland, I posted about foraging in the woods for elderflowers with the intention using the flowers to make a syrup and a liqueur. I woke up one morning to find that Rose Levy Beranbaum had commented on the post while we were sleeping in Europe. Rose said that she, too, was a fan of elderflower syrup, and that her next cookbook (The Baking Bible) would have a recipe for an elderberry pie. Talk about a thrill for a humble little blogger. It’s like casting your vote on election day and having the president personally ring you up to say thanks for voting!

Several of the Heavenly Cake Bakers volunteered to bake some of the recipes that have gone into The Baking Bible to test them in home kitchens. We were happy to be Rose’s Beta Bakers. Now that the book has been published, we are once again joining together for a bake along, to go through The Baking Bible recipe by recipe, but now we are Rose’s Alpha Bakers. 

We start off one month from today, on December 1st with the recipe of the week, Kouigns Amann, the flaky bread seen in the cover photo. You’ll want to check Polish Housewife weekly to see how my projects have turned out, and the bake along site (link above) to get to know my fellow alpha bakers. You can learn, celebrate, and occasionally cry along with us!

 

Lois Britton

An accountant by trade and a food blogger since 2009, Lois Britton fell in love with Polish cuisine during the years she lived in Poznań, Poland. As the creator of PolishHousewife.com,  she loves connecting readers with traditional Polish recipes. Lois has a graduate certificate in Food Writing and Photography from the University of South Florida. She is the author of The Polish Housewife Cookbook, available on Amazon and on her website.

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  1. Julie Kenkel

    November 4, 2014 at 11:07 am

    This is so cool Lois! congrats!!

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    • polishhousewife

      November 5, 2014 at 12:31 pm

      Thanks, Jules! Good to hear from you again. It’s like you’ve been busy with a wedding or something! 😉

      Reply
  2. Vicki B

    December 3, 2014 at 10:12 am

    Lois! How are you?! So sorry to have missed you while in California. I hope you come this way again now that I actually read my blog again. So much fun to read everyone’s baking forays with Rose’s new book.

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    • polishhousewife

      December 3, 2014 at 3:01 pm

      Hi Vicki! Our daughter is still in the Bay Area, so I’m sure we’ll be back. I’m thrilled about reconnecting with everyone, and I’m glad your blog is active again, because I always enjoy your posts!

      Reply

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