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500 Pizzas & Flatbreads: The Only Pizza & Flatbread Compendium You'll Ever Need (500 (Sellers Publishing))

Rebecca Baugniet

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Editorial Review:

500 Pizzas & Flatbreads is an extensive recipe collection that reaches all over the globe for inspiration. Not only does this volume offer plenty of recipes for the beloved classic pizzas - thick and thin crust, traditional and gourmet - but it also includes a wide range international flatbreads from a wide range of culinary traditions - Indian naan and dosas; Moroccan chickpea flatbread; Ethiopian injeri; matzoh and pita from the Middle East; fry bread, bammy bread, pupusa from the Americas; and many more. All recipes are tested in a conventional home oven.

Beautiful Breads and Fabulous Fillings: The Best Sandwiches in America

Margaux Sky

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Total reviews: 13 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

Take your bread and sandwich-making to the next level. Margaux Sky, whose Art Cafe and Bakery in San Luis Obispo has drawn major media attention for her wonderful fare, now shares the secrets of her success. Beginning with basic white, wheat, and sweet bread dough, Sky shows you how to make the best breads and sandwiches in America.

Just browsing through the titles and the ingredients provides a feast for the senses, yet from her list of ingredients to directions for preparation, readers will think, "I can do this!" Her daring combinations produce these tempting dishes and more:

• Avacoado and Melted Swiss on Salsa Bread
• Roasted Rumble Bumble with Roasted Red Pepper Sauce on Honey Nut Wheat Bread
• TBLT on Horseradish Parmesan Bread
• And the "O" Special-Curried Chicken on Spicy Pepper Jack Bread

In Beautiful Breads and Fabulous Fillings, you'll find over 150 full-color photographs and over 140 recipes for these simply divine loaves, sandwiches, fillings, and accompaniments. Margaux's stunning combinations of flavors and textures will have your friends and family clamoring for more.

Muffins: Sixty Sweet and Savory Recipes... From Old Favorites to New

Elizabeth Alston

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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 8 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

I ordered this to replace my copy that was flooded in Hurricane Katrina 4 out of 5 stars.
1 of 2 people found this review helpful.

because it contained my favorite blueberry muffin recipe! Many of the other ones are great too.

Visual Cookbook Lovers Need not Buy 3 out of 5 stars.
0 of 5 people found this review helpful.

I love cookbooks & bought this one on a Amazon Promotion. No pictures; bland writing. Small size.

One of the best! 5 out of 5 stars.
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I bought this book for my mom year's ago when I was a kid...some 20 years ago. The blueberry, pumpkin and cornbread muffins are a family favorite. I have my own copy now, and always have an extra or two to give out as gifts.

Editorial Review:

With over 300,000 copies sold, this wonderful volume presents 60 sweet, savory and mouth-watering muffins--a great variety of recipes that turn out perfectly every time. A charmingly-designed collection, it includes baking tips and hints for these classic favorites that everyone loves. Devoted to its singular sensational theme, the offerings range from smoked turkey muffins (excellent as an hors d'oeurves in miniature) to the all-time house specialty, pumpkin chocolate chip muffins. Be prepared for applause for the recipes for muffins with a surprise inside! Includes 20 B&W illustrations.

Bread Machine Cookbook II (Nitty Gritty Cookbooks)

Donna Rathmell German

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

I didn't want to give it back! 5 out of 5 stars.
22 of 23 people found this review helpful.

A friend lent me this book three months ago and I kept making excuses for not returning it. In the end, she came for lunch, and feeling guilty I thought I would just write out my favourite recipes, and ones I wanted to try ... an hour later and I was still writing! She came for lunch (I served Corny Bread, my favourite so far) and during dessert I was STILL writing. She felt so bad, she told me to keep it longer. She also suggested I tried Amazon, and here I am and have ordered all the books in the series, plus copies for some of my friends. This is the best Bread Machine Cookbook. It is simple, with no uneccesary information. The joy of Bread Machines is that once you have done a couple of recipes from your Instruction book you can cook anything and don't need to be told the same information over and over again. I love every recipe I have tried so far from this book. Everyone with a bread machine should have one!

Editorial Review:

The second book in the Bread Machine Cookbook series features 130 original recipes. It includes special sections on international breads, coffee breads, pizzas and hand-pies that offer new ideas for using the appliance. Current instructions and common questions and answers make this book a must for the bread machine user.

Baking with Sourdough

Sara Pitzer

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Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.

Pillsbury: Best of the Bake-Off Cookbook: 50th Anniversary Edition (Pillsbury)

Pillsbury Company

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Total reviews: 11 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

For almost fifty years, people have looked to one cooking contest for the most delicious, the most exciting and the most uniquely American recipes this country's home cooks have to offer. The Pillsbury Bake-Off(r) Contest presents the very best of what people are cooking today for their family and friends-for everyday dinners, special occasion desserts and mouthwatering breads. Now, for the very first time, more than 350 of the most sought after prize-winning recipes from this famed cooking contest are gathered in one book, complete with gorgeous color photographs and stories about the people and the inspiration that led to their award-winning recipes.

But the Bake-Off(r) Contest is about more than just baking. . . certainly dessert time has never been the same since the introduction of Magic Marshmallow Crescent Puffs, Chocolate Silk Pecan Pie and the Tunnel of Fudge Cake, which became a household name in 1966. The Bake-Off(r) is also about wonderful savory dishes, such as Cowboy Steak 'n Veggie Soup, Grilled Chicken and Mango Corn Salad, Italian Zucchini Crescent Pie and the now-famous California Casserole, which captured the Grand Prize in 1956 and won its creator, Margaret Hatheway, a cook's tour abroad, where she introduced this most American of dishes to chefs all across Europe.

Best of the Bake-Off(r) Cookbook is a sweet and savory record of how American cooking has evolved over the years, illustrating how home cooks have captured their ethnic heritages in dishes adapted from their grandparents' countries to modern kitchens and busier times. The stories are as inspiring as the recipes themselves, from 1955 winner Rosemary Sport's prize-a new pink range-which provided her family with the motivation to become proud new homeowners to 1996's Grand Prize-winner, Kurt Wait, a single parent, who with the help of his son developed his $1 million-winning recipe Macadamia Fudge Torte.

Hundreds of the very best recipes are accompanied by enticing color photographs and organized by category: Soups, Sandwiches and Snacks; Main Dishes; Side Dishes and Salads; Breads; Sweet Rolls and Coffee Cakes; Cookies and Bars; Cakes and Tortes; Pies and Tarts; and Other Desserts. Each chapter is filled with personal profiles highlighting the people who created the recipes plus the wonderful and oftentimes humorous behind-the-scenes stories from the Bake-Off(r) Contest events: One contestant accidentally sat on her cake entry; another was notified that she was a lucky contestant via a citizens-band message broadcast by her town's postmistress.

The recipes are sensational, the stories are uplifting. Best of the Bake-Off(r) Cookbook invites you into the kitchens and lives of the many people who over the years have made the Pillsbury Bake-Off(r) Contest the most loved, most respected showplace for this country's home cooks.

The Secrets of Jesuit Breadmaking

Rick Curry

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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 13 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Good bread, fun reading! 5 out of 5 stars.
6 of 6 people found this review helpful.

As an atheist I was wary of this book, but I actually enjoyed reading Curry's stories and Jesuit histories. The recipies are fantastic - well written and all have been successful so far. The only complaint I have is that the font in the recipies is too small, especially the fractions! Great book, great author.

My Bread Bible (no religious pun intended) 5 out of 5 stars.
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I will never forget when I stumbled upon this cookbook. It was laying on a table at the Tulsa Public Library and since I was currently interested in the Jesuits and their Cathlocism (I'm married to a New Testament major) I picked it up. I had been selling my egg bread loaves to neighbors and as a new bride, hadn't any other cookbooks than the Better Homes and Garden, thus was interested in more recipes. After reading it cover to cover, I squeezed the money out of our meager college budget, I bought this book as soon as I could afford it. I have a great deal of affection for this book as I have baked from it for over eleven years and have had nothing but success and a great deal of raves from family and friends alike on the results.

Since I always save my five stars for a book that's a good buy for the frugal at heart, I can recommend it for no other reason that it is a bargain as it is really full of useful bread recipes. For example--it covers cornbread (three kinds including Johnnycake), Irish breads, wheat breads, all sorts of rolls and buscuits, starter breads (sourdough for Dummies, trust me), potato breads and even Jewish breads! I consider this an essential book for anyone who enjoys breadmaking, even if you only use a breadmaker.

I'd like to remark on the one reviewer's disparaging of the text and his saying this book has errors: I have yet to find one and as for the text, I absolutely love it--they are short sweet asides about the history of bread in both the Catholic church and world in general. His personal asides are insightful and inspiring, my personal favorite being the story he tells about first joining the Jesuits where he was assigned to managable portions of butter for the kitchen off of a huge block that was delivered to their residence. It was a menial job, and as a youth, it made him angry, naturally, and proved very frustrating because he had to use a wire to do it. Doesn't sound like a big deal until you realize Brother Curry only has one arm! An older brother chided him and said that if he couldn't handle the butter, then he'd never move on to greater things. A wonderful lesson that's stuck in my head--cut the butter first with whatever you're given!

And if that's not a good enough review to get you to buy the book, I'd like to point out that the profits from this book go to support Brother Curry's work with the handicapped: he runs a full-fledged bakery in New York for people with handicaps in order to teach them a trade, and also runs The National Theater Workshop for the Handicapped as well--so resist the urge to buy it used! Buy this book--you won't regret it as a baker and you certainly won't mind the good karma. (Catholic karma, at that!)

Editorial Review:

In the tradition of The Tassajara Bread Book, Brother Curry combines 80 mouth-watering recipes for bread--gathered from Jesuit brothers around the world--with his spiritual insights on meditation through bread-baking.

Secrets of a Jewish Baker: Authentic Jewish Rye and Other Breads

George Greenstein

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Total reviews: 22 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Too Much Sugar & Commercial Yeast - Too Few "Secrets" 3 out of 5 stars.
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Secrets? Vat Secrets?

It is really quite simple to make a loaf of bread. The greatest challenge for professional and striving artisan home bakers is to be able attain consistency; to factor in and accommodate specific needs of that day's dough, be they changes in ambient temperature, humidity, ripeness of poolish or biga or sourdough, and the tolerance of dough during fermentation.

I purchased this book with the expectation of finding baker's percentages, generous use of specialized pre-ferments, in addition to a heavy reliance on naturally leavened indirect methods. I also rightly expected professional "secrets" as the title implies.

Jeffrey Hamelman, author of BREAD remarked that he used to marvel at his ability to make acceptable loaves one day, and then wish he could hide his loaves the next. Secrets of a Jewish Baker is a book of practical, empirical, and intuitive information that uses packaged yeast (as many as three packages per recipe), volume measurements (cups and teaspoons), and will not contribute much to bakers aiming to expand their knowledge beyond today's flooded bread book market.

I should have known better than to fall for come-on titles like, "Secrets of a ......." yet I was still annoyed when his "secrets" such as the one for producing a rich mahogany-colored rye, is the addition of coffee, cocoa, or molasses. All of which impart their own alien flavors along with the color benefits they provide. In the case of selecting molasses for bread color, that ingredient also contributes considerable sweetness that is uncharacteristic of traditional sour rye.

Unlike Nancy Silverman's bread recipes using baked potatoes to great result, Greenstein's potato breads rely on boiled potatoes. Aside from the tendency of boiled potatoes to become gooey, they also contribute inconsistent quantities of hydration to the already vague formula: "a small or medium potato".

This 1993 title would have been far more conducive to my needs today if the author remained true to his original bakery formulas, provided actual "secrets" to his readers, and did not re-write his methodology to over simplify his recipes and production techniques for non-bakers.

The added sugar content in food (vegetables, breads, entrees) is often a regional and ethnic preference. I was born in Los Angeles and as such, I disfavor added sugar in my foods, particularly breads and vegetables. This book uses far more sugar and commercial leavening than is acceptable to my preference.

Overall, this book's content which also includes many quick loafs is very disappointing.

Editorial Review:

Professional baker George Greenstein reveals what the home chef has suspected all along--professional bakers get great results because they use dozens of little tricks that make the difference between ordinary loaves of bread and spectacular ones. Here are secrets, tips, techniques, and instructions for everything from yeast breads to whole grain loaves to biscuits to croissants. Illustrated.

250 Best American Bread Machine Baking Recipes

Donna Washburn

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Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

250 Best Bread Machine Baking Recipes 5 out of 5 stars.
7 of 9 people found this review helpful.

This book is chock full of good recipes. It is by far the best bread machine baking book that I have run across. I use it daily.

Editorial Review:

The ultimate collection of bread machine recipes.

Home baked bread is one of life's delicious pleasures. And nothing bakes bread as easily and conveniently as a bread machine.

These easy recipes meet the exacting requirements of this technology. Combining all the recipes from the author's two previous bread machine books, this outstanding collection is a treat for all bakers.

250 Best American Bread Machine Baking Recipes includes such delicious recipes as:

• Traditional Sourdough Bread and spicy Jalepeno Cheese Bread
• International favorites: Irish Freckle Bread and Cranberry Walnut Kaffeekuchen
• Healthy and hearty whole grain breads: Honey Berry Seed Bread and Whole Wheat Harvest Seed Bread.

Other recipes take advantage of a bread machine's ability to prepare dough for a wide variety of treats, such as Sausage-Stuffed Stromboli or Giant Pecan Sticky Buns.

Making European Breads: Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin A-172 (Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin, a-172)

Glenn Andrews

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Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

excellent book! 5 out of 5 stars.
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easy for the novice baker! well worth the $! Easy step-by-step instructions and it doesn't take 3 days to make the bread! Well written...highly recommend.

Editorial Review:

Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.