Will Run For Doughnuts: The Montclair Bread Company Cookbook

by Rachel Wyman

Overview

This cookbook spotlights the recipes, traditions, and tales of a popular New Jersey bakery that started as a tiny, hole in the wall but became a pillar of resilience for the community during the global pandemic. Montclair Bread Company not only offers bountiful baked treats to throngs of fans, and is a mecca for runners who line up each year to race for doughnuts, it is the epitomy of adapting to survive a crisis.

Nine months after Rachel Wyman opened Montclair Bread Company in 2012, business was stale. She had spent years rising before dawn to perfect the combination of flour, water, yeast and salt, and she had the bread to prove it. But on a good day, only thirty people trickled through her door until one Sunday morning when one of her bakers asked her to make doughnuts. This was risky because her customers often begged for healthy foods. The doughnuts sold out in minutes, the number of customers continued to grow along with the line for doughnuts that stretched to the end of the block. Her business flourished until the global pandemic in 2020. Rachel had no choice but to adapt to keep her business going and even started a virtual bake-a-long to help support and communicate with the community during the lock downs.
This book shares the tried-and-true recipes Rachel spent three decades perfecting that are now the backbone of her bakery. The recipes are organized by Childhood Favorites, Breads, Doughnuts, Community Favorites, Recipes from Quarantine. Some of these include:

• Mombo's Carrot Cake and Cowboy Cookies
• Sour Dough Bread and Stollen
• Classic Brioche Doughnuts with Variations, Toppings, and Glazes
• Pizza and Energy Bars
• Cheese Crackers and Bagels

Rachel brings joy to baking, makes yeast less scary, and helps home bakers make the perfect dough under any conditions. This is a story of how the love of baking brought a community together and held it together during a global pandemic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781524867645
Publisher:	Andrews McMeel Publishing
Publication date:	10/26/2021
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	1,073,967
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 7.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Rachel Wyman grew up in Maryland and as a child watched her grandmother make wedding cakes. After graduating from the University of Florida with a French degree, she studied baking and pastry at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY, where she discovered a passion for baking bread. She felt, “There was a soulfulness about it that wasn’t found in fancy cakes.” She has worked for Bread Alone Bakery, Amy’s Bread, and the Ritz-Carlton and has developed bread recipes for Wegmans, Whole Foods, Target, and Starbucks. In 2014 she won The Cooking Channel’s “Donut Showdown” competition. In 2015, Bake Magazine named her “One of the 25 Most Influential Bakers in the US.” In 2016, she was featured in the New York Times story "Montclair Bread Company has Sunday Treats All Week Long." Recently, Rachel wrote about the struggles of operating a business during the pandemic for CNN Business Perspectives. She is the owner of Montclair Bread Company in Montclair, NJ where she resides with her three children.

Table of Contents

Introduction Fueled By Doughnuts and More Baking Basics ix

Chapter 1 Childhood Favorites 1

Mombo's Carrot Cake 5

Strawberry Cake 8

Mombo's Bread Pudding 10

Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake 12

Apple Dumplings 13

Easter Eggs 17

Cowboy Cookies 19

Peach Blueberry Buckle 22

Yogurt Cake (Gâteau Au Yaourt) 24

Sheet Pan Brownies 26

Pie Dough 28

Strawberry Pop Tarts 30

Cinnamon-Brown Sugar Pop Tarts 33

Hand Pies 35

Chapter 2 Bread 37

Currant Seeded Bread 39

Baguettes 42

Challah 46

Sourdough Bread 49

Stollen 52

Ciabatta 55

Pretzels 59

Jalapeno-Cheddar Corn Bread 61

Chapter 3 Doughnuts 67

The MBCo Classics

Brioche Dough 72

Classic Brioche Doughnuts 74

Vanilla-Glazed Doughnuts 76

Apple Cider Doughnuts 77

Tres Leches Doughnuts 78

Maple Bacon Doughnuts 80

Carrot Cake Doughnuts 81

Strawberry Shortcake Doughnuts 82

Hot Chocolate Doughnuts 83

Mocha Doughnuts 84

Boston Cream Doughnuts 85

Nutella Doughnuts 86

Jelly Doughnuts 87

Alternate Endings

Yum Buns 91

Cinnamon Rolls 94

Sticky Buns 96

Fritters 98

Quick Doughnuts

Vanilla Buttermilk Cake Doughnuts 101

Potato Donuts 104

Crullers/Churros 106

Glazes and Fillings

Chocolate Glaze 108

Vanilla Glaze 110

Strawberry/Fruit Glaze 111

Honey Glaze 112

Maple Glaze 113

Cream Cheese Glaze 113

Cream Cheese Frosting 114

Whipped Cream 114

Pastry Cream 115

Chapter 4 Community Favorites 119

Pizza 125

Yana's Mom's Granola 128

Grain Salads 130

Overnight Oats 132

Energy Bars 135

Chocolate-Peanut Butter Energy Bites 136

Steel-Cut Oatmeal 137

Buttermilk Biscuits 138

Coconut Cake 141

Chapter 5 Recipes From Quarantine 145

Basic Mute Bread 154

Cheese Crackers 157

Flour Tortillas 158

Bagels 160

Breakfast Cookies 162

Mix & Match Muffins 164

Peanut Butter Cookies 166

Banana Bread 169

Mexican Chocolate Cake 170

Acknowledgments 176

Metric Conversions and Equivalents 177

Index 178

About The Author 183

Editorial Reviews

Rachel’s passion for baking is evident from the first moment you meet her. I’ve always been impressed with her dedication to our craft, her insatiable curiosity, and her generosity of spirit. I’m excited to read this book and learn more about her baking and go for a run!!! (Joanne Chang, author of Pastry Love and co-owner of Flour Bakery)

As a business owner, marathoner, race director, community activist, and mother, Rachel has both survived and thrived when up against hardship and adversity. When the pandemic upended Montclair Bread Company, forcing so many small businesses and restaurants to close, Rachel innovated. She got creative, she put in the work, and she’s still here—baking the best darn doughnuts New Jersey’s ever seen! Come for the recipes. Stay for the endless inspiration. (Allison Feller, host of the Ali on the Run Show podcast)

Running and baking go well together, and they’ve never been paired more harmoniously than they are in Rachel Wyman’s delightful cookbook-meets-memoir. (Matt Fitzgerald, cofounder of 80/20 Endurance, and author of The Endurance Diet and The Comeback Quotient)

Rachel Wyman’s spirit and imagination are infectious. I’ve been a fan of Rachel as a teacher, baker, and business owner for ages, and the way she worked through quarantine, drawing us all into her baking and ours, amazed me. Of course such a fun and practical person would create a fun and practical book, full of solid advice on tools and methods. (Amy Halloran, author of The New Bread Basket)

Rachel’s a baker whose stories about community and family inspire us to be better bakers and better humans. She’s a powerhouse in the bread world who’s taking the joyous doughnut to the next level! (Stephanie Swane, publisher at Modernist Cuisine)

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