The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook, Newly Expanded and Updated: A Master Baker's 300-Plus Favorite Recipes for Perfect-Every-Time Bread-From Every Kind of Machine

by Beth Hensperger

Overview

Enjoy the ease, speed, and money—saving convenience of your bread machine as you make breads that have the taste, texture, and aroma of the handcrafted breads from a neighborhood bakery.

In this newly revised edition of the best—selling and most comprehensive bread—machine book ever written, The Bread Lover’s Bread Machine Cookbook, you will see the latest trends in bread reflected, with more sourdough breads, more gluten— and dairy—free breads, more breads from global cuisines, and more breads that feature veggies, fruits, and other plant—based ingredients. Also find information and tips on the latest technical developments in bread machines, such as programmable preset buttons.

When master baker Beth Hensperger, author of the James Beard Award–winning cookbook The Bread Bible, first set out to try to make bakery—quality breads in the bread machine, she doubted it would even be possible. So she spent hundreds of hours testing all sorts of breads in every kind of bread machine—and her doubts vanished! In this big, bountiful book, full of more than 325 bakery—delicious recipes, she reveals the simple secrets for perfect bread—machine bread, every time you make it. The book includes:
 

• Whole—Wheat and Other Whole—Grain Breads
• White Breads and Egg Breads
• Sourdough Breads
• Cheese, Herb, Nut, Seed, and Spice Breads
• Fruit and Vegetable Breads
• Pizza Crusts, Focaccia, and other Flatbreads
• Coffee Cakes, Sweet Rolls, and Chocolate Breads
• No—Yeast Quick Breads
• Holiday Breads

This is a great big book by a master of bread that is guaranteed to give you a lifetime of ideas for delectable, easy—to—make breads.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780760393291
Publisher:	Harvard Common Press
Publication date:	10/22/2024
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(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.

Table of Contents

America’s New Bread Box 
ORIENTATION 
Batterie de Cuisine: Know Your Bread Machine 
Making Bread 
DAILY BREADS:
White Breads and Egg Breads 
White Breads 
One—Pound Loaves 
Egg Breads 
EARTH’S BOUNTY:
Whole Wheat, Whole—Grain, and Specialty Flour Breads 
Whole Wheat Breads 
Rye Breads 
Specialty Flour Breads 
Gluten—Free Breads and Low—Gluten Breads 
Multigrain Breads 
TRADITIONAL LOAVES:
Country Breads and Sourdough Breads 
Country Breads 
Sourdough Breads 
ALL KINDS OF FLAVORS:
Breads Made with the Produce of the Garden, Orchard, and Creamery 
Herb, Nut, Seed, and Spice Breads 
Mixes and Some Special Breads Created from Them 
Savory Vegetable and Fruit Breads 
Stuffing Breads 
Cheese Breads 
CIRCLE, SQUARES, AND CRESCENTS:
Pizzas and Other Flatbreads 
SWEET L OAVES:
Chocolate, Fruit, and Other Sweet Breads 
Breakfast Breads 
Coffee Cakes and Sweet Rolls 
Chocolate Breads 
Holiday Breads 
EXPRESS LANE BREAD:
No—Yeast Quick Breads 
JAMS, PRESERVES, AND CHUTNEYS
in Your Bread Machine 
APPENDIX 1
Bits and Pieces: Crumbs, Croutons, Crostini, and Toasted Appetizers 
APPENDIX 2
To Eat with Your Bread: Spreads, Butters, Cheeses, and Vegetables 
Index