North Woods by Daniel Mason & baking iced apple buns
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- Опубликовано: 1 дек 2024
- This wondrous novel spans centuries and involves some very special apples so I bake a delectable recipe while discussing the book. Click ‘Show More’ for info & links.
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North Woods by Daniel Mason
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How lovely! The combination of taking about literature and doing some baking/cooking is perfect for me. The apple buns sound delicious. If you make them again and want the icing to show, let them cool more before you pour on the icing. Of course--the disadvantage of that is that you can't eat them warm!
Thanks so much! They were delicious. And you're probably right about the icing. I get so impatient while baking. 😄
love love LOVED this book. I described it to a friend as a book where after each chapter you just want to close the book and give it a hug.
Delightful, I wish I could have one with a cup of tea!
And the book is wonderful! I will certainly reread it at some point in time.
🫓 I love this ! Making food based on the book you're reviewing is a cool idea. It really brings the book to life.
You have baking skills Sir !
Thank you! 😊📚
North Woods was easily my favorite book I read last year. Absolutely loved the review + cooking format, please do more!
What a great idea - baking and books! I have North Woods and am looking forward to reading it. I did bake those delicious buns today - a big success - but I needed a longer rise, even with a great warm spot for rising.
Ah, I'm so glad you tried them out. They are yummy!
I love it 🥰🥰🥰 I love doing something to honor a book after reading it. After I read The Particular Sadness of Lemon cake, I made a lemon cake. After reading The Language of Flowers, I went and bought some of the flowers mentioned in the book ❤️📚.
Thanks! Yeah, books are so suggestive in that way. 😄📚
Thank you, Eric! Although...I'm quite long thoothed now, wishing I was there tasting those delicious looking apple biscuits😋🙃🤣🤣🤣
Hi Eric. A few tips about your dough: maybe the milk was too hot? You're not supposed to boil it with your yeast. The milk needs to be just a little warm, not too hot. Also, after you put the yeast in the warm milk, you need to let it sit in it for 5 minutes, and add a tablespoon of sugar or honey, with it and stirr. Then, after the blooming of the yeast, you pour it in the flour. Also, if the dough didn't rise in the first prove, leave it another hour, but in a warm place, if you don't have were, put the bowl next to an open gass burner on the hobb, on the low, but next to it, so it will get warm by proxy. And it will rise. Same after you form the final shape of the bake. If it doesn't rise after all this, you won't have a fluffy bun/bread. Also, check if your yeast is not expired. On your iceing, put the amount of sugar, but just a teaspoon of lemon juice, then stirr. If too thick, add another teaspoon and you'll see the difference. You can add, but not take back, or you'll need a lot more sugar to make up the consistency. Good luck next time, it was fun mixing baking and books :)
Thanks so much for the tips! Very wise suggestions! I'll keep those in mind in future.
I read this book in January and loved it so much. And you said all the things that I could not explain about the book. English is not. My first language and I’m not good at reviews but you explained lots of stuff about this book. I am planing to reread it because I think it’s a book that’s worth re reading.
Excellent review. I just finished North Woods. I grew up in CT and had a 2nd home in the Berkshires for several years so it was nostalgic for me too. Masterful structure and very clever. Love the concept and the themes. He did a terrific job at moving the narrative language forward in time. One thing that I felt was not a success in the book is that I never bonded with the characters, despite their many hardships and challenges. This includes the yellow house and I have a real soft spot for old New England houses. I did care for the apple trees. There were a few times when I felt the narrative felt momentarily absurd, jarringly so; or a word Mason chose felt wrong. His passion for the natural world was beautifully researched and included although maybe slightly redundant at times. I wish the overarching theme of the novel had been more braided in from the start, rather than really in the last story. And I don't fully accept that our only way of grappling with loss (due to the passage of time) is the rather fatalistic approach of seeing it as change. But yes, overall, a really worthy read.
Love this video - what fun. Reading/ hearing your description of North Woods and those of the book clubbers really enhanced my reading experience. In fact, I want to read it again.
I will say I will never consider bringing firewood from home to a campsite ever again. The beetles...
Ah, thank you!
Great video! I’m inspired to bake and read Notth Woods!♥️☮️
Great! Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
I like how you did this!! Great idea and thank you for sharing.
Thanks!
I read North Wood last week and loved it. I thought the supernatural element made it less sorrowful and more focused on the changes that take place over time.
Interesting thinking about who had lived in places before us. Indigenous people walked the land my home is on but in most homes I've lived in, my family has been the first there. In my current home, I remember when there were no houses on this land and there was only one owner before my family. Interesting...
Loved the book and loved the baking!
I admire anyone who bakes or farms for that matter. Anything that has to do with dough seems really difficult to make to me but it is definitely worth the effort. I'm going to try to make French macaroons for the first time for Valentine's day. I like books with supernatural elements, so I'm going to order North Woods.
Fun!! I love when you talk about baking Eric, it somehow makes you even more wholesome. Can't wait to watch this video :)
Thanks! 😄
You've inspired me to read it. Like watching people cook too!
What a great video! I was a bit distracted by the baking (especially that I love anything with apples), but it was fun.
What a wonderful and creative vlog with a beautiful review of North Woods. Many years ago I was inspired to bake corn bread after reading Where the Crawdawds Sing.
Thank you!
Fantastic how you mixed the words with all the other ingredients. I wish you would send out some 'samplers'. I can 'smell' it and I
am sure it tastes great. Hmmmm😊
Thanks for the fun time.
Thanks! I wish I could send some out.
I absolutely loved North Woods, which I received for Christmas and was my first read this year. Your review was really inventive and enjoyable, and much of what you said resonated with my experiences of reading the novel. I'm definitely going to make these apple buns..- thank you!
I’m reading north woods at the moment it’s a good read Eric.
Wonderful review and delightful video! North Woods was definitely one of my favorite reads in the past year. I, too, was really taken by the way Mason incorporates so many different styles, and I loved how the characters from the many different parts eventually were actually all interconnected. Great video, Eric. Thank you!
Thanks so much! I'm glad you're also a big fan of this novel.
Just finished North Woods a couple days ago so this is perfect timing for me
Really enjoyed reading the book and the discussion in the book club. Once I realised the house and place is the main character, I was able to get into the story more.
I really loved this book. I feel a strong pull to read it again soon, to find details I may have missed. What a fun idea to bake apple buns during your review!
I’m glad you loved it too!
I really enjoyed the wildly varying voices of North Woods, just wish we could have focused more on fewer of them. This was a fantastic review of a book I would’ve had such a hard time summarizing.
I hope you’ll do more baking videos, Eric! I think the first video I ever saw of you, years ago, included you baking rolls, so this was fun to see. (I was going to say “Your buns look delicious,” but that just sounds wrong. 😂 )
Thanks!
Thanks so much! 😊📚
North Woods was in my top ten last year. It did take a couple of sections before I fell into the style of it, then I loved it.
North Woods was my favourite book last year. Felt very David Mitchell, who I also love.
I loved this book and really enjoyed your video!
Thank you!
😱 they look so good 🤤 double icing sugar all the way ❤ well done! loved this review , so creative and very detailed and informative too , agree with how you feel about this novel whole heartedly. It was great!
Thank you!
1. I have missed your books and recipe videos. I loved your Christmas baking. I think, maybe, that the sugar disappeared because you didn't let the buns cool enough.
2. I loved Daniel Mason's lovely novel "The Piano Tuner." It brought me into a world unknown to me and drew me into it deeply.
3. How did discussing this book with your club affect your appreciation, critical and otherwise with your review?
cooking + review is excellent.....would be even better if leftovers were fedexed to subscribers!
North Woods is an amazing read. Eric, you need to work on your drizzling.
I was disappointed in that if I knew and expected a Magic Realism element from the start, I would have embraced that and enjoyed it more. Instead I pushed those off to the side when they started to happen instead of seeing that as a central element.
I was hoping for something more akin to the book The Glass Room, which follows a factionalized history of ownership over time in a real life modernist masterpiece home in Eastern Europe. The sociopolitical turn over is what I was expected for North Woods, but with an Americana element.
I just didn’t get it- I mean I understand the premise but just because it was about the house and all its inhabitants I guess I just didn’t get into the characters overall- and the overall tragic lives playing out over and over again-
I feel pretty stupid not being able to appreciate it since everyone seems to be going bonkers over this book. Hmmm-
you kneaded the dough too long 😊