Summary
Baking with yeast is becoming a lost art. Many cooks would love to utilise the incredible properties of yeast, but lack a guide to inform and inspire them.
The Lost Art of Baking with Yeast shows how simple baking with yeast can be, and how irresistible the results.
The book includes recipes for cakes, slices, pastries, buns...and Baba's famous golden dumpling cake. Baba Schwartz introduces the principles of yeast baking and gives handy hints for kneading and proving dough to perfection.
These recipes, with their distinctive Hungarian flavour, will delight your family and friends. If you love baking, you will love discovering these recipes, some unique and some classic.
'A delightful book...you can almost smell a warm, yeasty kitchen aroma wafting from the pages.' The Age
'Lovely...a great book that rises to the occasion for those who already love baking with yeast, and those who would like to learn.' Australian Gourmet Traveller
Baba Schwartz was born in Hungary in December 1927. A Holocaust survivor, she migrated with her family to Australia in the 1950s. Her cookbook, The Lost Art of Baking with Yeast: Delicious Hungarian Cakes and Pastries, was published in 2003. Her memoir, The May Beetles: My First Twenty Years, was published in 2016. She died in June 2017 at the age of 89.
(Bowker Author Biography)
