A Baker's Year: Twelve Months of Baking and Living the Simple Life at the Smoke Signals Bakery by Tara Jensen

    • Categories: Breakfast / brunch; Lunch; Cooking for 1 or 2; Winter
    • Ingredients: frozen blueberries; milk; ground cinnamon; ground ginger; whole barley; spelt berries; sorghum syrup; bee pollen
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  • mjes on September 05, 2021

    Lumberjack delight (pg 52) is a waffle with rye, buckwheat, and wheat flours that depends solely on eggs for its lightness. I loved the flavor.

  • alisonholt on February 18, 2018

    Careful with this one. The recipe for Coalfield cake should have 3 cup of flour, not 1/3. The author says there are several editors mistakes in it that they are trying to solve. Lovely book, lovely writing, just be careful and use your common sense when you cook from it. Measurements in grams for bread and a mixture of volume and ounces elsewhere, which, for me, is a disappointment.

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  • ISBN 10 1250127386
  • ISBN 13 9781250127389
  • Published Feb 13 2018
  • Format Hardcover
  • Page Count 256
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher St. Martin's Griffin

Publishers Text

A year in the life of Instagram bread-baking sensation Tara Jensen as she teaches readers how to bake bread and pies, build the perfect fire to cook with, and live a simple, satisfying life.

Why do so many people make pilgrimages to Tara Jensen’s North Carolina Smoke Signals Bakery? Why do over a 100,000 people follow her Instagram feed @bakerhands? It’s because Tara bakes the most exquisite bread in the US, using a wood-fired oven that she tends with her own two hands. It could also be to learn how she makes her bubbly, deep-dish fruit pies or to see the crisp pizzas that are sometimes covered with fresh flowers. It could be something deeper: Tara Jensen has learned to live a simple life, close to the land that feeds her oven. In her first book, she shares her philosophy of simple living and her trove of recipes with others.

A Baker’s Year takes readers month-by-month through the seasons at Smoke Signals for porridge and waffles in winter, crusty bread in spring, pies and pizza in the summer, and celebration cakes for end-of-the-year holidays. Along the way, Tara writes about how to live in a more peaceful world, shares stories from her own life, mourns romances lost, and celebrates the promise of a new relationship.

Illustrated throughout with Tara's photographs and drawings, A Baker’s Year is a true American original destined to be a classic of cookbook shelves.



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