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Bread Comes to Life: A Garden of Wheat and a Loaf to Eat

George Levenson

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Ah, *this* is where bread comes from! 5 out of 5 stars.
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A beautiful, deceptively simple, whimsical and instructive book on the growing of wheat and the making of bread. One senses the author's love for his subject, and the photography is breathtaking. One page shows (and tells) how a grain of hard red winter wheat does indeed look like a tiny loaf of bread... this is memorable and magical for children. What I like most is the immediacy and practicality of the text: the baker sows the wheat in his backyard garden, and we're told one acre of grain can keep a family of four in (weekly) bread for ten years. Looks like we're planting some wheat this fall...

Editorial Review:

From a patch of wheatgrass in his backyard, award-winning filmmaker George Levenson takes readers on a tour of bread made from scratch. A thresher, a grinder, and finally a doughy combination of flour, water, yeast, and oil combine to make a freshly baked loaf of whole wheat bread. With energetic, poetic text and vivid photographs, the creative team behind PUMPKIN CIRCLE: THE STORY OF A GARDEN shows children that there's a lot more to this kitchen staple than they might expect.

Bread Machine Magic: 139 Exciting New Recipes Created Especially for Use in All Types of Bread Machines

Linda Rehberg, Lois Conway

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Total reviews: 32 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Very helpful! 5 out of 5 stars.
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I was a first time bread machine user and this was one of the first books I used. It was very helpful with easy explanations and practical recipes, using ingredients that we were apt to have on hand. It is the first bread recipe book that I turn to now.

The best bread cookbook ever and 5 out of 5 stars.
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the best cookbook. I love this cookbook! I've used it more times than any other cookbook I own. My family and I love fresh baked bread and this is the way to get it! I didn't realize that they've come out with new books that go along with this one, but I will be sure to buy them! I have a Wel-bilt machine and the recipes correlate extremely well. AWESOME BOOK!

bread machine magic 5 out of 5 stars.
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I bought a Cuisinart convection bread machine for about 110.00, accompanied by a fairly extensive recipe booklet. It was a toss up as to whether the recipes would work or not. I researched on line and found out from customer reviews (bless their hearts) that the Cuisinart recipe book is off in its measurements. I was dubious, but searched for another book. Bread Magic was on Amazon, available used for a few dollars. Worth it's weight in good bread--every recipe has not only worked, but made really exceptional bread of a taste and quality that one just can't buy in the grocery store. I probably have a more recent edition of the book than some reviewers here. The marmelade oatmeal bread is my favorite so far. Just make sure the book was published within the past 5 years or so. It was a relief to find it because I was beginning to think my expenditure on the bread machine was a mispent; now I feel it is worth every penny.

Editorial Review:

Owners of an automatic bread machine know it's the hot new kitchen appliance that takes the kneading, shaping, proofing and frustration out of baking bread. Now the authors, who tested thousands of loaves using all the major brands of bread machines, offer more than 130 recipes for making amazing homemade bread.

Bread Made Easy: A Baker's First Bread Book

Beth Hensperger

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

A solid first bread book for the novice 4 out of 5 stars.
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I finally got up the nerve to begin the task of bread baking about six months ago. After some research, I decided on this book because it is for beginners and the book methodically moves from easiest to more difficult. Each master recipe in a chapter is accompanied by variations on the same theme so if you make the master and a variation, then you probably have the skills to move on. The directions are simple, there is a chapter on basic bread knowledge and they the breads taste great. As of this writing, I have baked pretty much all the master recipes and a variant. I have not tried the sweet dough chapters (of which there are 2 or 3 I think). I thought these chapters are more special occasion breads rather than everyday so I skipped them. IMHO, one sweet dough chapter would have been fine and this is why I didnt give it 5 stars. Im sure they are excellent recipes. I have graduated to Peter Reinhart's Bread Baker's Apprentice which is a more serious treatise and also geared to novices. Look for my review on that when I have baked through it a bit. Bread Made Easy is not expensive and I recommend it as a first timer's book. Hope this helps someone.

Editorial Review:

For almost 30 years, Beth Hensperger has researched baking traditions, both ancient and modern and from all over the world. In this book, she applies her wealth of knowledge to demystifying what many feel is this most intimidating of kitchen crafts - baking the perfect loaf of bread. This is an easy-to-follow, step-by-step manual, which novices should find easy to go through the basics and quickly learn to bake eight different breads, including white, whole-wheat and flat bread.

Baking Bread: Old and New Traditions

Beth Hensperger

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

I could live on bread and water... 5 out of 5 stars.
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Expertly written: examines the varieties of wheat and grains used in bread baking which opened up the whole history of agriculture to me which I continue to research; explores methods for successful homemade breads that I've played with now for several years; unique recipes for sensational, healthful, chewy, nutty homemade wheat breads; unimaginably wonderful recipes like the Asparagus and Artichoke Torte with red peppers, onions, garlic, cheeses...and a variety of recipes of savory spreads for breads. The inspirational and beautiful photographs grace the book - like California Walnut Bread shaped in a Maltese cross on the book's cover - I keep displayed on my kitchen counter in a clear cookbook holder. The book explores bread as a very aromatic and romantic food...It's my source of choice for bread baking.

Editorial Review:

In the tradition of its phenomenally successful companion volume, Bread, Baking Bread offers a practical guide to baking and over 100 easy-to-follow bread recipes for every taste and occasion. In chapters on American and European country breads, picnic breads, dinner rolls, waffles, brioches, holiday breads, and bruschette, this generously illustrated collection explores the full range of delicious bread possibilities. Detailed information on adapting recipes to the time-saving bread machine, a thorough explanation of basic bread-making techniques, over 50 innovative recipes for cheeses and spreads, and a complete glossary of newly available whole grains round out this comprehensive volume. Illustrated with beautiful full-color photographs, Baking Bread is an authoritative, inviting guide to the most satisfying of culinary crafts.

Totally Teabreads: Quick & Easy Recipes For More Than 60 Delicious Quick Breads & Spreads

Barbara Albright, Leslie Weiner

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

Teabreads are ideal for today's bakers. Also known as quick breads, they're easy to prepare, requiring no kneading, no yeast, and no long waiting time. Even more perfect, they're light-tasting and delicious, just right as a dessert or snack to accompany a pot of fresh coffee or afternoon tea.

This delightful collection includes recipes for both sweet and savory teabreads, with recipes that range from the traditional to the sublimely imaginative and new.

Sweet Teabreads: Banana Chocolate Chip Loaf, Blueberry Almond Bread, Chocolate Chocolate-Chunk Bread, Cranberry Orange Oat Bread, Fresh Pineapple Macadamia Nut Bread, Spiced Apple Raisin Walnut Teabread

Savory Teabreads: Basil Sun-Dried Tomato Bread, Cheddar Bacon Corn Bread, Tricolor Pesto Tomato Bread, Zucchini Cheddar Loaf

Healthier Teabreads: Applesauce Gingerbread, Double Bran Bread, Cocoa Buttermilk Teabread, Two-Tone Corn Bran Bread, Whole Wheat Irish Soda Bread

Complete with recipes for delectable spreads to accompany the teabreads, this irresistable collection provides dozens of easy, delicious baking projects to fit any occasion or mood.

Savory Baking from the Mediterranean: Focaccias, Flatbreads, Rusks, Tarts, and Other Breads

Anissa Helou

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

The Mediterranean is full of varied and diverse cuisines, but the one thing they all share is a basic reliance on bread. From Italian focaccia and French brioche to Lebanese tabouneh (sourdough pita) and Egyptian fiteer (flatbread), bread is the single most important staple in Mediterranean diets, and serves as the foundation for countless other savory dishes. In Savory Baking from the Mediterranean, Anissa Helou presents a collection of classic and favorite recipes that will provide home cooks with a broad overview of Mediterranean savory baking, from countless variations on flatbreads like pita, focaccia, and lavash, to raised breads such as French Bacon Bread, Greek Spinach and Olive Bread, and Italian Nut Bread. In addition, she offers recipes for a wide variety of pies, tarts, and savory pastries, such as calzones, empanadas, pizzas, and spanakopitta. Savory Baking from the Mediterranean is illustrated through out with 100 artful black and while photographs of landscapes, communities, and breads.

Muffins

Cyndi Duncan, Georgie Patrick

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Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Great recipes 5 out of 5 stars.
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A great recipe book for muffins. Old time favorites and a lot of new ideas. Just great!

Editorial Review:

Muffins takes basic bran to a palate pleasing new level! Cyndi Duncan and Georgie Patrick have created a muffin cookbook with easy-to-use recipes, basic instructions and ingredients, helpful baking tips, and most importantly, a variety of recipes to please even the pickiest member of the family. Muffins offers dozens of delightful choices from classic fruit, bran and vegetable recipes to more complex and savory recipes such as Dijon ham muffins. There's muffin to it!
Recipes Include:
Saucy Blueberry Lemon
Crunchy Apple
Miniature Orange
Raspberry Wine
Graham Pear
Jalapeno Corn
Spicy Chocolate
Dijon Ham
Cyndi Duncan and Georgie Patrick previously published the Benjamin Franklin Award-winning Nothin' but Muffins, which sold more than 30,000 copies, along with a quick cooking series, two cookie books, and two books published for other authors. They live in Colorado.

Bakery Lane Soup Bowl

Marge Mitchell

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Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

A good book for a novice cook 4 out of 5 stars.
7 of 7 people found this review helpful.

I bought this book about 20 years ago, and it has a 1970's appeal to it. The foods remind me of little restaurant you might stumble across and be delighted to find that they serve decent, wholesome food. I especially like the Cheddar Cheese Soup, and they offer some basic salad recipes that one can follow verbatim or use as a springboard for your own creations. This would make a good gift for a novice cook because it offers many familiar recipes that are easy to make.

Legendary chocolate cheesecake. 4 out of 5 stars.
6 of 6 people found this review helpful.

Visited this little restaurant in Middlebury, Vermont many times, many years ago. This cookbook captures the quality and creativity of the Soup Bowl's menu and has been a perennial in my kitchen for close to 25 years. Don't be disappointed by what seems like a small number of recipes, they are all terrific.

Yummy!, Challenging! and Fun! 4 out of 5 stars.
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I came by this cookbook by way of a patient giving it away because she no longer cooked. Since I am an avid cook I gladly accepted it. The recipes have an old East Coast flavor. My 2 favorite recipes are: Shaker Chicken and Noodle Soup and Fresh Apple cake with Caramel Frosting which I just finished icing today.

Editorial Review:

Easy and delicious soup, salad, bread, dessert, and drink recipes from the popular restaurant in Vermont.

Delicious Gluten-Free Wheat-Free Breads

LynnRae Ries, Bruce Gross

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Editorial Review:

Delicious Gluten-Free Wheat-Free Breads: Easy to make breads everyone will love to eat for the bread machine -- or oven combines a variety of baking methods with easy to make bread techniques using the newest of grains for a gluten-free wheat-free lifestyle. The coordinating website, space for personalizing the recipes and tester and taster comments add life to this well written book.

Farm Journal's Homemade Breads

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

farm journal's homemade breads 5 out of 5 stars.
8 of 8 people found this review helpful.

i have this book and have used it so much that i have worn it out, it is falling apart, i want another one, receipes are great,usefull information. i pretty much started out with this book, it was my first bread making book and i love the receipes as do the rest of my family. i hope that i can find a copy (new) soon

Mom uses the book so much it is falling apart 5 out of 5 stars.
7 of 7 people found this review helpful.

I would like to order this book for my Mother. She makes the best bread, pies, & pizza dough from the recipes in this book. I hope they publish it again. Her's is falling apart. It is in about 5 pieces and she still manages to find her favorite recipes, but I can't find her recipes. I want a copy for myself so I can make great bread like her. I would recommend this to anyone who has just started making breads or to someone who has been making bread for years.

Excellent!! 5 out of 5 stars.
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I have passed this book and many of it's recipes to friends and fellow bakers. Easter would not be the same without the challah, Christmas without the rolls and many a meal with friends and family without the baguettes. This book is great for even the ameteur baker. My copy is currently in about four or five yeasty and flour-y pieces. I highly recommend it!! And it's a great price!

Editorial Review:

41 b&w illus. 352 pp. 6 x 9. Orig. $16.95.