The Holiday Table - Eat Everything on the Table Again
THE HOLIDAY TABLE
Eat everything on the table again.
WHAT IT IS
Sixty-seven recipes for the four days of the year when being coeliac
hurts most: Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter and every birthday in
between.
The bread, the pies, the stuffing, the cake. Everything on the table —
made so nobody can tell.
THE PROBLEM IT SOLVES
You know the day. You sat at a table with ten other people and ate
around the edges of it. The turkey, yes. The green beans. Not the rolls,
not the stuffing, not the pie.
And somebody who loves you had made you a separate plate.
That plate is what this book is about. Not the food on it — the fact
that there was a separate one.
WHY HOLIDAY BAKING NEEDS ITS OWN BOOK
A holiday asks four things of a recipe that a Tuesday never does. It
gets made in quantity. It gets made the day before. It travels. And it
gets reheated in front of people.
Gluten used to handle all four invisibly. Part One is the mechanism for
replacing it — the fourth job, and the three levers that do it. Every
recipe here was written against all four conditions and tested there.
WHAT'S INSIDE
Thanksgiving — dinner rolls, stuffing that holds its shape, gravy that
doesn't split when you reheat it, three pies with bases that stay crisp,
and the hour-by-hour plan for one oven.
Christmas — panettone, stollen, gingerbread, the yule log that doesn't
crack, and the tin you bake to give away.
Easter — hot cross buns, simnel cake, braided bread, lemon tart, scones.
Birthdays — one base cake formula, three flavours, four frostings, and
the assembly that makes it look bought instead of managed. Plus the page
for when they tell you the day before, and the chapter on baking for a
coeliac child.
And everything around the table: sauces, crackers, coatings, croutons,
stuffing balls.
WHO IT'S FOR
Anyone who has eaten around a holiday table. Anyone cooking for someone
who has. And any parent who has watched their child blow out candles on
a cake nobody else was eating.
