Holiday and Celebration Bread in Five Minutes a Day

July 16, 2018
Pastry chef François and writer Hertzberg’s latest installment in their Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day series collects a variety of solid recipes for celebratory breads. The authors painstakingly address how they transform traditional, time-consuming breads into refrigerated doughs that require only five minutes of prep time, and explain how several factors, such as water temperature and resting time can affect the final product. The authors provide a repertoire of basic dough recipes that are repurposed for dozens of different holiday-inspired breads. Buttermilk bread dough, for instance, can be used to make soft dinner rolls, sticky caramel nut rolls, and ricotta-stuffed savory doughnuts. In addition to western European Christmas bread staples, such as panettone and stollen, the authors include recipes from around the world, such as Turkish Ramadan pita, Mexican pan de muerto, and Ukrainian chocolate-raisin babka bundt for Easter. With step-by-step photographs, this book is a real confidence-booster for home cooks who wish to sharpen their bread-making skills. Agent: Jane Dytsel, Dystel and Goderich.

October 15, 2018
Fran�ois and Hertzberg, authors of Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day (2007), expand their approach to share recipes for holiday and celebration breads from around the world. Almost every culture has its own yeasted treats; recipes for 100 of them?including challah, lavash, hot-cross buns, beignets, and many more?are gathered here. Recipes that may be intimidating due to complexity and time are made more possible with the authors' premade bread-dough technique. Readers needn't be experienced bread bakers to make these recipes. The first six chapters walk readers through the necessities, from ingredients and equipment to the master recipes that will serve as the basis for the rest of the recipes that follow. Color photographs accompany the instructions, offering both step-by-step visuals as well as highlighting the finished product. A final chapter on quick jams and fillings provides the basics to complement the finished breads. You might find yourself looking for any occasion, and five minutes, to bake one of these treats.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)