From the Wood-Fired Oven New and Traditional Techniques for Cooking and Baking with Fire-Quality Guarantee

Description

Richard Miscovichs descriptions and instructions are both practical and inspirationally poeticdare I say, soulful. He ignites the fire within and compels us to want to know what he knows and to bake as well as he Reinhart, author of The Bread Bakers Apprentice

In the last several years, interest in wood-fired ovens has increased dramatically in the United States and abroad, but most books focus on how to bake bread or pizza in an oven. From the Wood-Fired Oven offers many more techniques for home and artisan bakersfrom baking bread and making pizza to recipes on how to get as much use as possible out of a single oven firing, from the first live-fire roasting to drying wood for the next fire.

From the Wood-Fired Oven offers a new take on traditional techniques for professional bakers, but is simple enough to inspire any nonprofessional baking enthusiast. Leading baker and instructor Richard Miscovich wants people to use their ovens to fulfill the goal of maximum heat utilization. Readers will find methods and techniques for cooking and baking in a wood-fired oven in the order of the appropriate temperature window. What comes firstpizza, or pastry? Roasted vegetables or a braised pork loin? Clarified butter or beef jerky?

In addition to an extensive section of delicious formulas for many types of bread, readers will find chapters on:

Making pizza and other live-fire flatbreads;
Roasting fish and meats;
Grilling, steaming, braising, and frying;
Baking pastry and other recipes beyond breads;
Rendering animal fats and clarifying butter;
Food dehydration and infusing oils;
And myriad other ways to use the ovens residual heat.

Appendices include oven-design recommendations, a sample oven temperature log, Richards bakers percentages, proper care of a sourdough starter, and more. . . .

From the Wood-Fired Oven is more than a cookbook; it reminds the reader of how a wood-fired oven (and fire, by extension) draws people together and bestows a sense of comfort and fellowship, very real human needs, especially in uncertain times. Indeed, cooking and baking from a wood-fired oven is a basic part of a resilient lifestyle, and a perfect example of valuable traditional skills being put to use in modern times.

*Author Richard Miscovich and From the Wood-Fired Oven have been mentioned or featured in the New York Times, Saveur, Bon App?it, NPRs The Splendid Table, the Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times

Author: Richard Miscovich
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
Published: 10/10/2013
Pages: 352
Weight: 2.71lbs
Size: 10.35h x 8.22w x 1.01d
ISBN: 9781603583282
Language: English