A cookbook can enhance your bread-making journey. Renu is a personal chef, culinary instructor, and a food blogger who covers food for The Spruce Eats. All the recipes are accompanied by a commentary on the side that further guides the bread proofing basket. This comprehensive collection of bread and pizza recipes will keep you thoroughly engaged.
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The recipes work for a wide range of machines with tips from the author on adjustments and more. The illustrated recipe for the basic country bread makes it very easy to follow the process. The book has 55 small-batch formulas and is interspersed with FAQs. There are diagrams and instructions for shaping loaves, scoring, braiding, and other techniques. The book lists out equipment you will need, types of gluten-free flours you can use, and how to make your own master flour recipe. Whether you want to make hot dog buns or a sandwich bread or want to have a pizza night, this has you covered with 175 recipes. If you have been looking to venture out and travel around the world through bread baking, this is a book that will take you places.
This is an engaging, informative, and detailed book that details the process of working with a variety of freshly milled grains. There are very few aromas that stir the appetite like the smell of freshly baked bread. Fewer still invoke such intense craving and memories. The whiff of fresh bread does it all. If you want to learn about and bake a variety of breads, our top pick is “The Bread Baker’s Apprentice. Peter Reinhart is a distinguished teacher who is passionate about bread baking.