Since 1992 Russell Jeavons has owned and cooked at a unique restaurant in an old cottage in one of South Australia's prized wine districts. It is famous in part because it's only open on Friday nights, but moreso for its fresh, simple food cooked entirely in Russell's wood-fired brick ovens. His pizzas are renowned throughout Australia, with fine regional ingredients artfully combined atop classic, thin, wood-oven cooked crusts. Russell's Pizza is the kind of place where friends and family gather to eat within sight of the golden, glowing kitchen; where the garden is equipped with warming braziers and outdoor fire pits for chatting, relaxing, and munching. It is an atmosphere that many of us covet for our own homes—an outdoor space where we can come together on cool nights for warmth, fun, and good food. The first part of Your Brick Oven is a step-by-step guide that takes readers through the stages of building an oven, from choosing the site to firing up for the first bake. Part two explains how to cook in the oven with invaluable tips for brick oven cooks, with recipes for sour dough bread, thin-crust pizzas, traditional roasts, fruit tarts, and sinful cakes and pastries.
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Russell Jeavons owns and operates an eccentric pizza restaurant in Willunga on the Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia, a region famous for its almonds, olive oil, and McLaren Vale wine. Known simply as "Russell's Pizza," the restaurant—which opens only on Friday nights—has gained a cult following for its brick-oven fired food.
Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid, contributors of the foreword, are the award-winning authors of Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet; HomeBaking; and Flatbreads and Flavors; among others. They live in Toronto, Canada.
Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid, contributors of the foreword, are the award-winning authors of Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet; HomeBaking; and Flatbreads and Flavors; among others. They live in Toronto, Canada.
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This review is from: Your Brick Oven: Building It and Baking In It (Paperback)
This 84 page book is evenly divided between intstructions on how to build a brick oven and recipes for baking in it. I have not tried the recipes. I made an impulsive purchase of this book because I have been interested in building a brick oven for some time. I mistakenly thought that I would gain some insights and practical tips that were missing from The Bread Builders by Daniel Wing and Alan Scott. I did not. There is, in my opinion too little detail in this book to actually construct a quality oven.
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Would not be my first choice,
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Not what I hoped it to be. Not detailed enough to build a brick oven based on this book. The Bread Builder is a better book which I would recommend.
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A unique recommendation for any homeowner adding such an oven to a house project.,
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If you want to build your own brick oven for baking, you can't go wrong with (and simply must own) YOUR BRICK OVEN: BUILDING IT & BAKING IN IT: it's a bible of facts about the step of building such an oven, from suitable sites to using it in baking. Base, domes and construction are all covered, along with first firing and cooking tips. While it's more a construction guide than a cooking guide, YOUR BRICK OVEN serves both audiences well - and as there are relatively few other books on the market on the topic, it earns a place as a unique recommendation for any homeowner adding such an oven to a house project.
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