Doukhobor Bread Recipe

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Thomas Parr on 4 Feb 2011 at 10:03

Hello out there:

Does any member of this forum have or know where to get a recipe for "Doukhobor Bread".  For those who don't know what a Doukhobor is, they were a Religious sect living in Tsarist Russia and fled to Canada and homesteaded.  Their loaves of bread are apparently to die for and sell "by the slice" at the annual gathering in or around Saskatoon, SK, Canada.

Thanks

Hi Thomas,

This much I can tell you:  the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto has the definitive collection of Doukhobor materials in North America.  I advise you to go to the web site, http://www.library.utoronto.ca/fisher/, and send an email query to the library director.  This is just the sort of question they love to assign to some graduate student.

R

The link I gave you seems to be for fruit tart not bread.  Couldn't find anything else.

Thank you all for your kind kind responses.  Hopefully something will come of this. 

Tom

Hi there:

I have already received a response from them. This is what they write:

 

Hi, David:

There are innumerable versions of the "Doukhobor recipe" for bread, and some of the most widely acclaimed are for large community batches of scores of loaves at a time. The best source for your purposes would be the perennial bestseller, "Hospitality - Cooking the Doukhobor Way", a cookbook published in 1995, and reprinted numerous times since then. It may be purchased at our central office in Grand Forks, BC - contact info as per our website.

I am sending a cc of this email to our USCC Financial Clerk, Fay Malins, who will deal with any inquiry about the cookbook that you may have.

You may also want to register for the "USCC Members Online" section of our website, where you can post your request, for possible replies from other registrants.

Sincerely,
Jim (for the USCC Web Group)


----- Original Message ----- From: "David Weiner" <davidbweiner@gmail.com>
To: <info@usccdoukhobors.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2011 1:22 AM
Subject: WWW Form Submission


Below is the result of your feedback form.  It was submitted by
David Weiner (davidbweiner@gmail.com) on Sunday, February 6, 2011 at 02:22:19
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message: To whom it may concern:
I am researching ethnic bread recipes and I understand the Doukhobor community has a bread that is truly amazing. Would it be possible to get a recipe for this bread? I would greatly appreciate any help you can give.
Respectfully,
David B. Weiner

You should contact them at the address in this email (info@usccdoukhobors.org)

I will forward to you any other communications.
All the best,
David at:  www.breadmantalking.blogspot.com

Thanks David for your Yoeman service.  It is greatly appreciated.

Tom

Update after 12 years. I came across an update for the Doukhobor Society of Saskatoon Sask. Canada for their Doukhobor bread booth at the Saskatoon Exhibition (Fair).

They have 3 brick ovens and bake upwards of 700 loaves a day for fair goers. Also one of the photos is of the bread recipe on the wall of the kitchen attached. A google document link for a history of the bread booth and a link for the brick oven move.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rFKoGp7HGYybtUN2kj6gExRqgMqsrzZ6IBsIVHd6Xuo/edit

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipO5zwG9wGGlD7u1ZzmrHcwh3MdpoCiIlSiKbcD18m6lY1jSRvZUtT3Tz1GMfpwqSw?key=ZDB6RndiV0JxZ0Zoai1HUHBZTThLX2lmSEdh…

 

Doukhobor bread recipe