Baking with Fortitude

Dee Rettali's book "Baking with Dee" is a winner of the Andre Simon Award 2021 and shortlisted for the Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards 2022. It offers 90 recipes focused on beautiful, natural flavors from quality ingredients, using forgotten craftsmanship. Many recipes are simple one-bowl mixes, with the batter left to ferment in the fridge to enhance natural flavors. Dee's roots in Ireland and Morocco inspire unique flavor combinations, such as white grape and rosemary cake, Marrakeshi mint and orange peel sourdough loaf cake, blueberry and lime little buns, turmeric custard and roast pear brioche buns, and chili-soaked date and oat loaf cake. This book is a modern take on seasonal and no-waste baking, bringing this back to life in a thoroughly modern way.

Format: Hardback
Length: 192 pages
Publication date: 28 October 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

'I love Dee Rettali's baking - she is obsessed with flavour. A bold and beautiful book' Diana Henry

The 90 recipes in this book are all about beautiful, natural flavours from quality ingredients like fruits and spices. Dee Rettali is an artisan baker who, over a lifetime of baking, has honed her recipes to bring out intense flavour using forgotten craftsmanship.

Dee's cakes, created for her bakery - Fortitude Bakehouse in London - are a world away from generic cakes loaded with sugar or artificial flavours. Her most groundbreaking technique is to use a sourdough-like starter in her baking, another flavour-building process she has developed is to ferment the batter itself before baking. Both these exciting and simple approaches bring a unique depth of flavour to Dee's recipes, as do other slow-paced artisanal methods like steeping fruit and making herb infusions.

This is a cutting-edge way of baking and at the same time it has antecedents in Dee's past. She grew up in rural Ireland where seasonal and no-waste baking was simply a way of life. This book brings this back to life in a thoroughly modern way.

Weight: 730g
Dimension: 182 x 255 x 25 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781526626967