Kristin | Bake Across Europe

I’m so excited to finally announce my first e-book: Homestyle Hungarian Baking: Simple Coffeehouse Favorites for the Home Kitchen While I spent a lot of time in Budapest filming the showstopper desserts, I kept noticing the quieter, simpler bakes that appear all over Hungary, both in coffeehouses and in home kitchens. These everyday recipes are just as much a part of Hungarian cuisine as the creations of pastry chefs. This book is about those recipes. Simple Hungarian bakes you’ll find in bakeries but might just as easily see on a grandmother’s table. They’re practical, unfussy, and suited to home kitchens, and this collection is my way of sharing the foods that felt most rooted in daily Magyar life. In this book you will: —Get a feel for Hungarian food culture through simple, everyday bakes —Bake 9 classic Hungarian cakes, pastries, cookies, and breads —Learn practical European baking techniques adapted for real home kitchens —Discover Central European flavors like poppy seed, sour cherry, walnut, & apricot —Follow clear, reliable recipes with both US and metric measurements This book was created as a companion to the video series I'm releasing over the next few weeks. Taken together, they offer a well-rounded look at Hungarian baking culture—both the showstoppers and the everyday bakes. I hope you enjoy this! So much love went into testing and curating these recipes for you all!

@gopherdestroyer @CatholicCharm Yes. I hate car culture. We do so little walking here. I spend so much time in the car sitting.

@BakeEurope @CatholicCharm So what you’re saying in the American way of infrastructure is wrong?

Europeans see this and genuinely picture some 400lb American slapping cups worth of this onto a sandwich instead of a family of 4 eating it slowly over the course of a month

@vesalius74 @roadcoconut @CatholicCharm What I'm reading from all of these responses is Europeans don't have very many children. We can go through something like this in a month because I'm packing lunches for 3 kids five days a week. I don't buy juice, but we easily go through 1-2 gallons of milk each week.

@roadcoconut @BakeEurope @CatholicCharm I understand your point, and those large packages make sense in this case. But most households are smaller, and buy those big packages nevertheless. I never understood the american custom of selling milk or orange juice in one-gallon-canisters. No one would buy it in Europe.

@ViolaAppleton6 @CatholicCharm I have an extremely expensive one 5 minutes from my house. (I'm talking $15 jars of marinara kind of expensive). So, I drive 20 minutes to get to an affordable one.

@BakeEurope @CatholicCharm How far is your local supermarket? Surely driving to the supermarket is just as convenient. Also, I've never ever finished a bottle of mayo 😂

@hcfountain The American Dream

My wife made me a chocolate chip pancake to go and my kids chased my car down the street yelling goodbye as I headed off to the office. Strong start to a Tuesday.

@flybigd @lifesafeast I need to follow her Substack—that's right up my alley!

@BakeEurope Very nice! Do you follow Jamie Schler @lifesafeast here or on the 'gram/Substack? She has a French inn and writes about rustic/historic French food--her dishes look really lovely.

I've been on a bit of a French 🇫🇷 food kick lately. Tonight, I decided to go all out and make a four course dinner, serving: 🥖 Onion tart 🥖 Celery root velouté 🥖 Crème fraîche herb roasted chicken 🥖 Hazelnut blancmange All the recipes are from Mimi Thorisson's books. I'll put them below.

@liebeskindred It's not really something eaten here, so you only find 1 or 2 sitting on the shelf in the stores. I was so surprised how sweet it was after sautéing and simmering it. So good!

@BakeEurope Celery root is really underrated so versatile!

@hcfountain Did you know this is a plant you can grow in your garden? I learned this a couple of years ago, and my mind was blown.

Are you loofah maxxing, anon?

@susanjtreading Oh, you know, just your average Monday night meal! 😆

@BakeEurope Wow! What a meal!

@FinanciallyUp I was surprised that they ate most of it! Halfway through the velouté, the 4 year old decided he didn't like it, but they tried everything. I've raised them on my cooking adventures, so they're kind of used to trying out-of-the-ordinary things by now.

@BakeEurope That sounds amazing! I don't know if my kids would eat anything other than the chicken.

@witlegit Oh interesting...I would definitely call it tater tot casserole. I'll have to look into this!

@BakeEurope I don't know! I'm sure someone has a strong opinion about it somewhere. Some sound more correct to me though. I would never say tater tot casserole.

I just realized that my children are missing out on the very important Midwestern tradition of eating lots of casseroles/hot dishes

@owroot I love that it's very similar to the small paperback Reclam books that they use in Germany for classic literature.

Embrace the small paperback you can manhandle and fold up into your pocket.

@milkandmarrow Why did you do that Betty

This was my fault despite being several states away.

@wrowclif Oh, definitely!

@BakeEurope But they're a lot of fun, that's for sure

No idea what you mean

@witlegit Now I feel like an old because no one sends me TikToks.

Nothing makes me feel like an old than when someone sends me a tiktok

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