Mother GrainsRecipes for the Grain Revolution
The key to better, healthier baked goods is in the grain. Barley, buckwheat, corn, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, and wheat will unlock flavors and textures as vast as the historic lineages of these ancient crops.
As the head baker and owner of a beloved Los Angeles bakery, Roxana Jullapat knows the difference local, sustainable flour can make: brown rice flour lightens up a cake, rustic rye adds unexpected chewiness to a bagel, and ground toasted oats enrich doughnuts. Her bakery, Friends & Family, works with dedicated farmers and millers around the country to source and incorporate the eight mother grains in every sweet, bread, or salad on the menu. In her debut cookbook, Roxana shares her greatest hits, over 90 recipes for reinventing your favorite cakes, cookies, pies, breads, and more.
Her chocolate chip cookie recipe can be made with any of the eight mother grains, each flour yielding a distinct snap, crunch, or chew. Her mouthwatering buckwheat pancake can reinvent itself with grainier cornmeal. One-bowl recipes such as Barley Pumpkin Bread and Spelt Blueberry Muffins will yield fast rewards, while her Cardamom Buns and Halvah Croissants are expertly laid out to grow a home baker’s skills. Recipes are organized by grain to ensure you get the most out of every purchase.
Roxana even includes savory recipes for whole grain salads made with sorghum, Kamut or freekeh, or easy warm dishes such as Farro alla Pilota, Toasted Barley Soup, or Gallo Pinto which pays homage to her Costa Rican upbringing. Sunny step-by-step photos, a sourcing guide, storage tips, and notes on each grain’s history round out this comprehensive cookbook.
Perfect for beginner bakers and pastry pros alike, Mother Grains proves that whole grains are the secret to making any recipe so much more than the sum of its parts.
Roxana Jullapat is the baker and co-owner of Friends & Family in Los Angeles. She grew up in Costa Rica, trained with Nancy Silverton at Campanile, and ran Cooks County restaurant. She lives in Los Angeles.
I cannot RYE – Roxana has risen to the occasion with this A-MAIZINGLY organized and inspiring book! In Mother Grains she takes us on a journey with the ultimate guide to baking with grains. The recipes dance off the pages and demonstrate that baking with grains is easy and I can’t WHEAT to bake all of them! This is an all you KNEAD addition to the collection of any amateur, baking enthusiast or professional! Roxana is truly the Godmother of Grains! Sherry Yard , author of Secrets of Baking and Desserts by the Yard
Delightful…This compendium triumphs by making grains seem anything but stodgy. Publishers Weekly
Roxana Jullapat’s excellent new book Mother Grains transforms grains from a humble workhorse ingredient to a star in her delicious pastries and breads. I am lucky to live in Los Angeles near her bakery Friends & Family, but if you aren’t close, this book will take you inside and you will be happy you did. And when you make her brioche pecan sticky buns and barley pumpkin bread with candied kumquats, your own family and friends will be thrilled too. Nancy Silverton, founder of La Brea Bakery and chef owner of the Mozza Restaurant Group
[Mother Grains] makes baking with the world of ancient grains more accessible and exciting than ever…Roxana Jullapat is a total grain-head… her enthusiasm for really old grains rubbed off on me like rice flour on a black apron. Alex Beggs , Bon Appetit
With a clear, concise and confident point of view, Roxana Jullapat, has generously shared her love for pastry and bread within the recipes in her first book, Mother Grains. With respect and reverence for local, seasonal whole grains, fruits and vegetables, she takes inspiration from her ingredients and teaches us how to expand our repertoire to make pastries with depth and character. Kim Boyce , owner of Bakeshop in Portland, OR
Today’s home baker has a larger variety of grains at their fingertips than ever before, and this book is the definitive guide on how to use them in all of your baked goods. Through years of trial and error, Roxana Jullapat has learned the subtleties and nuances of our mother grains, and here she lays them all out in an elegant, comprehensive, simple book. Paying homage to all of those who paved the way for us here today, Mother Grains is sure to become a classic to all of those who are fortunate enough to spend some time with it. Josey Baker, Josey Baker Bread and The Mill
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