Can the incomparable taste, texture, and aroma of handcrafted bread from a neighborhood bakery be reproduced in a bread machine?
When Beth Hensperger, one of America's most respected authorities on bread, first set out to try, she had doubts. Then she spent hundreds of hours testing all kinds of breads in a bread maker, and her answer turned out to be a resounding "Yes!"
In this big and bountiful book full of more than 300 recipes, she reveals all the simple secrets for perfect bread every time. No matter how you slice it, Beth's brilliant recipes add up to a lifetime of fun with your bread machine!
Recipes include:
-Whole Wheat Bread
-Gluten Free Bread
-Sourdough Bread
-Nut Bread
-Cheese Bread
-Pizza and Focaccia
-Coffee Cakes and Sweet Roll
-Chocolate Bread
Reviews
Reviews
"I love this book. I have used it quite a lot and have made some really great bread. It is well written and easy to understand. I had no idea it would be this great. I recommend it to anyone who like to make bread and uses a bread machine. It also lightly touches making bread without a bread machine. The book also does a great job explaining all kinds of things including but not limited to why you use the type of flour and other ingredients in bread. It also helps you with substitutions."
- Linda F. Wade
"Some of my favorite bread machine recipes! They work in both my zojirushi (mini) and in my Breadman machine. I have some favorites but I should probably use some of the ones I've never tried before too. Love the focaccia, the 'hamburger buns" (I just use them as dinner rolls and with the occasional bbq sandwich). There are some fermented (like Sourdough) recipes that are great."
- Morgan Dawning
"I made my first loaf of bread today using this book. It is so easy to use. The author has taken the guess work out of making bread with your machine. I love all the information she provides. It's a good read with wonderful recipes."
- Deb Thode
"I love this cookbook! So far we have tried a couple recipes and they have been fantastic! We have had our bread machine for about 4 years and only stuck to the recipes from the book that came with it. This cookbook opened up a whole new world that we're really excited to try! You really can't argue with the price either! I would recommend it to anyone!"
- G. R.
"This is a huge book that is packed with recipes. I've had it only a few weeks and done two recipes. I loved them both. The author goes into great detail about bread machines. Not only is this a recipe book, but it's a complete instruction on how to use your bread machine and what to do if the dough isn't right and how to fix it. Of course, it's way more than the manual that came with the bread machine. I am having fun looking through the recipes and picking out some to make. It's an indepth course on breadmaking that you must have when you buy a bread machine. You will not be disappointed."
- Robin Davis
"All the recipes you could want - and then some.What is awesome about this book it is it does not include just recipes, but HOW they differ, what works, what doesn't, history, tips, etc. Even some humor.Is your loaf collapsing while baking? This will tell why, and what to do. And so it goes... Very good book, highly recommended."
- Bill
About The Author
Beth Hensperger, a New Jersey-born who now considers herself a California native, has been educating, writing, and demo-lecturing about the art of baking bread and cooking for thirty years. In the last few years, she has shifted focus from baking bread to countertop appliance-driven cookbooks that embrace the use of seasonal ingredients, merge convenience with cooking from scratch, and modernizing the home kitchen: the bread machine, the rice cooker, the microwave oven, and now a four-volume compilation specifically for use with the electric slow cooker, stressing care in preparation and personal creativity.
Hensperger's writing career began when she was chosen as the guest cooking instructor for the March 1985 issue of Bon Appétit. Now she is the author of over twenty cookbooks, including the best-selling Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook series, which includes Not Your Mother's Recipes for Entertaining, Not Your Mother's Family Favorites, Not Your Mother's Weeknight Suppers, and NYMSC Recipes for Two along with the blockbuster first volume, Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook. Also from The Harvard Common Press are The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook, The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook, and The Best Quick Breads. She is also the author of The Bread Bible, winner of the 2000 James Beard Book Award in Baking, and nominated twice for an IACP Cookbook Award.
Hensperger wrote a food column, "Baking with the Seasons," for the San Jose Mercury News (which was nominated for a James Beard Award in newspaper journalism) for over 12 years until the newspaper downsized.
She is a contributor to dozens of national and online cooking & lifestyle magazines, such as Food and Wine, Rachel Ray Magazine, Prevention, Veggie Life, Working Woman, Family Circle, and Cooking.com, as well as being a sought after radio interviewee speaking on cooking, baking, and entertaining. She lives in the San Francisco Bay area.
Paperback: 643 pages
Publisher: Harvard Common Press; Later Printing edition (April 30, 2000)
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 1.5 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
No comments:
Post a Comment