Home for the Holidays: Festive Baking with Whole Grains [Hardcover]

Ken Haedrich (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1998

A guide to stress-free holiday baking provides 125 recipes for wholesome holiday treats and covers such issues as mailing baked gifts, working with yeast, and baking with children.

--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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The main points of this friendly holiday cookbook are the use of whole grains and the practice of baking as a family experience. Together these elements imbue the holiday with character and remind us that "the simple things in life are some of the best things." Like many bakers, Haedrich ( Country Baking ) begins his holiday season with Thanksgiving, focusing on filling the Thanksgiving breadbasket with hearty fare such as whole wheat Parker House rolls and three-grain biscuits. Recipes for other holiday traditions follow: cranberry scones (for Christmas Day breakfast); rose water almond nuggets to mail to friends or leave for Santa; apple butter maple pie for the dessert table. A favored spice is cardamon; many doughs are yeast-based (Haedrich presents sidebars for readers unfamiliar with these). Menus and gift suggestions are helpful; recipe instructions are clear, if talky. Introductions are chatty and sentimental: the liberal use of the adjectives "little" and "special" and sentences interrupted by exclamation points may grate on some sensibilities. Still, for the baker tired of white-flour holiday recipes, this is an excellent choice.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Galahad Books (November 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1578660378
• ISBN-13: 978-1578660377
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.7 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,255,206 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #60 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Cooking, Food & Wine > Baking > General

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3.0 out of 5 stars A little deceptive., December 29, 2002

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Wendy A. B. Whipple (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Home for the Holidays: Festive Baking with Whole Grains (Hardcover)

While you could certainly consider this to be a cookbook of "festive baking," to say that it's "with whole grains" is a bit of a stretch.

The recipes call for whole wheat flour, true, but also unbleached (processed) flour. You'll find oat, rye and buckwheat recipes, but not many. What the author means by his subtitle is really "festive baking with a little whole wheat."

There are better cookbooks for cooking with whole grains. However, Haedrich does offer more dessert recipes in this book than you will find in most whole grain cookbooks. That is the reason why I am keeping my copy, and not taking it to a used book store.