The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook: A Master Baker's 300 Favorite Recipes for Perfect-Every-Time Bread-From Every Kind of Machine

by Beth Hensperger, Kristin Hurlin (Illustrator)

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

In print for over 20 years, these recipes are so fool proof that even a well-versed carboisseur couldn’t tell they weren’t made by hand.

Can the incomparable taste, texture, and aroma of handcrafted bread from a neighborhood bakery be reproduced in a bread machine? The answer from bread expert Beth Hensperger is a resounding “Yes!”

When Beth first set out to find the answer, though, she had doubts; so she spent hundreds of hours testing all kinds of breads in a bread maker. This bountiful 646-page book full of more than 300 bakery-delicious recipes is the result, revealing the simple secrets for perfect bread, every time.

In addition to a range of white breads and egg breads, recipes include:

• Whole-Grain Breads
• Gluten-Free Breads
• Sourdough Breads
• Herb, Nut, Seed, and Spice Breads
• Vegetable, Fruit, and Cheese Breads
• Pizza Crusts, Focaccia, and other Flatbreads
• Coffee Cakes and Sweet Rolls
• Chocolate Breads
• Holiday Breads
• No-Yeast Quick Breads

No matter how you slice it, Beth’s brilliant recipes add up to a lifetime of fun with your bread machine!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781558321564
Publisher:	Harvard Common Press
Publication date:	04/28/2000
Series:	Non
Pages:	656
Product dimensions:	8.01(w) x 9.11(h) x 1.72(d)

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.

Editorial Reviews

Unlike electric ice cream makers and pasta machines, the bread machine hasn't really enjoyed wholehearted acceptance in the culinary world. There are hordes of enthusiasts, no question about it, but many who consider themselves serious bakers look upon the machine with a skeptical eye. However, the newer generation of machines turns out excellent bread, and after being bombarded with know-how by this James Beard Award-winning writer, even the most reluctant may be inspired to give it a go. The book opens with an excellent orientation to both the machine and the basics of bread making. Step-by-step instructions are given for a few basic loaves. (Less helpful is a "what went wrong" section, which displays a firm grasp of the obvious.) The 300-plus recipes are so far-ranging it's hard to believe a bread exists that isn't included here. There are white breads and sourdoughs, all manner of whole wheat and grain breads and breads featuring nuts and dried fruits, cheese and savory flavorings. There are crusty ciabattas, a sturdy Irish Potato Brown Bread and a variety of challahs. Hensperger also includes dozens of sweet breads, including croissants, coffee cakes and traditional holiday confections. There are recipes for pizza and flatbreads, as well as selections from a variety of traditions, from Alsatian kugelhopf to Zuni Indian bread. She even offers instructions for using bread machines to make pasta, jams and chutneys. By the end, Hensperger (The Bread Bible, etc.) will have convinced readers that it's time to overcome any qualms and get to work. The bread machine is here to stay. (Aug.) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.|

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Hensperger's smaller quick breads book includes 100 recipes from her earlier Art of Quick Breads, now out of print, as well as 50 new ones. In addition to quick loaves, both sweet and savory, there are waffles, dumplings, biscuits, popovers, and a variety of other easy baked goods, along with some tasty accompaniments, such as the Fruit Salsa for her Hopi Blue Corn Hotcakes. For most collections. Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.\

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