Baking Bread: Old and New Traditions - Hardcover

Beth Hensperger

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0811802280 ISBN 13: 9780811802284

Publisher: Chronicle Books, 1992

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Beth Hensperger is an acclaimed San Francisco Bay Area-based food writer, cooking instructor, and bread maven who has written articles for Cooking Light , Shape , Bon Appetit , and Family Circle magazines among others and pens a weekly baking column in the

Joyce Oudkerk Pool is an accomplished food photographer whose credits include Hot, Hotter, Hottest (Chronicle Books).

Review:

This book offers a thorough education in bread baking with illustrations of techniques to prepare the dough (kneading, mixing, sponge method), how to use bread machines effectively, kinds of leavening measures, an explanation of grains and more. But it's the recipes that are the heart and soul (or stomach?) of the book. It contains over 100 bread recipes and variations, as well as 60 recipes for spreads and glazes: European breads, such as Peasant Bread with Figs and Pine Nuts; American breads, such as Pecan Wheat-Berry Bread; elegant dinner rolls and muffins for Sunday brunch; brochette, appetizer and celebration breads. Illustrated with photos so detailed you can almost smell the scent of warm bread, this book makes the jailer's sentence of "bread and water" something to look forward to. -- From The WomanSource Catalog & Review: Tools for Connecting the Community for Women; review by PH

About this edition

• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0811802280
• ISBN 13: 9780811802284
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 180