Baking with Babette's Bread and Crust

Heeding Tom Moore’s tongue-in-cheek advice, I read Babette’s Bread and Crust like novels, savouring their stories while enjoying all the plot twists with the recipes. Armed with my scale and dough scraper, I decided to have fun with the process and chose two recipes from each book, based on the authors’ recommendations. I felt like a rock star when the results looked like the ones in the photos, each tasting better than I could have imagined. What was most surprising, however, was that when I tasted the Government Loaf from Babette’s Bread, I was all of a sudden back at the cottage with my cousins, and Grand-maman, in her simple cotton dress, evenly sliced and buttered the warm slices of bread for her eager grandchildren. Babette Kourelos’ bread recipe was that good, and I will definitely make it again.