Home for the Holidays: Festive Baking With Whole Grains

Rating:
Summary: A little deceptive.
Review: While you could certainly consider this to be a cookbook of "festive baking," to say that it's "with whole grains" is a bit of a stretch.

The recipes call for whole wheat flour, true, but also unbleached (processed) flour. You'll find oat, rye and buckwheat recipes, but not many. What the author means by his subtitle is really "festive baking with a little whole wheat."

There are better cookbooks for cooking with whole grains. However, Haedrich does offer more dessert recipes in this book than you will find in most whole grain cookbooks. That is the reason why I am keeping my copy, and not taking it to a used book store.

Rating:
Summary: A little deceptive.
Review: While you could certainly consider this to be a cookbook of "festive baking," to say that it's "with whole grains" is a bit of a stretch.

The recipes call for whole wheat flour, true, but also unbleached (processed) flour. You'll find oat, rye and buckwheat recipes, but not many. What the author means by his subtitle is really "festive baking with a little whole wheat."

There are better cookbooks for cooking with whole grains. However, Haedrich does offer more dessert recipes in this book than you will find in most whole grain cookbooks. That is the reason why I am keeping my copy, and not taking it to a used book store.