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Bread Machine Baking for Beginners delivers complete, fail-proof instructions on how to use a bread machine along with amazing bread recipes.
List of contents
BATTERIE DE CUISINE: Know Your Bread Machine
Making Bread
DAILY BREADS: White Breads and Egg Breads
EARTH’S BOUNTY: Whole Wheat, Whole-Grain, and Specialty Flour Breads
TRADITIONAL LOAVES: Country Breads and Sourdough Breads
ALL KINDS OF FLAVORS: Breads Made with the Produce of the Garden, Orchard, and Creamery
SWEET LOAVES: Chocolate, Fruit, and Other Sweet Breads
EXPRESS LANE BREADS: No-Yeast Quick Bread
Metric Conversion Guide
Index
About the author
Beth Hensperger is the author of 22 cookbooks, about half books on bread and baking and half books on how to cook with popular countertop appliances. They include
The Bread Bible, winner of a James Beard Cookbook Award, and several volumes in the best-selling Not Your Mother’s series, including
Not Your Mother’s Slow Cooker Recipes for Two,Not Your Mother’s Microwave Cookbook, and
the blockbuster first volume,
Not Your Mother’s Slow Cooker Cookbook. She has twice been nominated for the Julia Child/IACP Cookbook Award. Hensperger previously wrote a
San Jose Mercury News food column for twelve years, Baking with the Seasons, and has contributed to dozens of cooking and lifestyle magazines, such as
Food & Wine,
Every Day with Rachael Ray,
Veggie Life,
Cooking Light,
Working Woman,
Victoria,
Prevention, and
Family Circle.
Summary
Discover how easy it is to make delicious homemade bread in your bread machine.
With this affordable, abridged edition of the best-selling Bread Lover’s Bread Machine Cookbook, learn how to make and bake bread in any brand of bread machine by combining the simplest of ingredients—flour, yeast, water, and salt. Offering complete, easy-to-follow instructions on using bread makers as well as a wide range of recipe variations for making all kinds of loaves, Bread Machine Baking for Beginners is the only book you will need to launch your bread-making success.
Filled with step-by-step photographs, this guide to machine bread baking includes recipes and instructions for everything from white sandwich bread to french baguettes to sourdoughs and seeded breads. Instructions on shaping, decorating, kneading, no-knead breads, and enriched breads are also included.
In Bread Machine Baking for Beginners, you will find:
- The basics of bread baking
- Tons of recipes, from the basic to more adventurous, all created with the beginner in mind
- Troubleshooting tips for bread machine–baking issues
- Ways to use your bread machine for other baked goods such as muffins and pizza dough
This book provides the
perfect introduction for new bread-making enthusiasts and a
great refresher for bread-machine veterans who want to dust of their bread machine.
Put an end to tasteless store-bought bread—use this guide and your bread machine to have fresh, tasty homemade bread instead. It’s easy and it’s fun!
