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The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook: A Master Baker's 300 Favorite Recipes for Perfect-Every-Time Bread-From Every Kind of Machine
I have ordered several bread machine cookbooks on Amazon since we are baking more bread than I've ever eaten in my life lately. Dr. Atkins would hate my family right now with all the carbs we are enjoying.That said, some are great, some fall flat...then some you go to almost every time you make a loaf.This is the one I enjoy the most.I was shocked when the book arrived because it's huge...full of recipes! Because of that, regarless of your taste, you should expect to have more than enough choices...even if you wanted to cook a loaf a day.And quite frankly, we kinda love making a different kind every day.Especially if you have a special diet and want to alter bread recipes in your own machine...now you can.Here are some examples:Butter Bread and loads of other white breadsSour Cream BreadWhole Wheat Cuban BreadCoconut Milk White BreadHoney White BreadHoney Wheat Bread and loads of other whole grain breadsJewish Egg BreadSwiss Egg BreadTomato BreadSweet Potato BreadZucchini BreadApplesauce BreadCottage Cheese BreadsRicotta and Chive BreadGreen Chile BreadBlack Olive BreadBalsamic Caramelized Onion BreadSunflower Oatmeal BreadToasted Walnut BreadPecan Raisin BreadOLive Oil Pine Nut BreadBeer BreadCalifornia Nut BreadCinnamon Swirl BreadHot Jalapeno Bread with Longhorn CheeseBeer Bread with CheddarRoquefort Cheese Bread with Walnutsor get creative with your flours for a chance of pace like chickpea flour, graham flour (OMG! I love this loaf! It's like the taste of wheat with a lighter texture and creaminess...I LOVE that one.)recipes for great pizzas making dough such as cheese pizza, caramelized onion and gorgonzola pizza,, mediterranean pizza, etcand all kinds of pizza doughs from white to wheat to cornmeal, etc.there is a whole chapter on gluten-free breadsDid you know you can make pasta dough in your bread machine? Neither did I. There is a whole chapter on it. You'll never go back.Out of yeast? There is a chapter on no-yeast quick breads.Like your bread with jelly or jam? A chapter on how to make them IN your bread machine.and all kinds of rolls, shaped breads, cinnamon rolls cakes, stuffings, foccacias, pita bread, pretzels...I wanted to give a clear picture by listing some ideas but let's face it, there are almost 700 pages of recipes for which you can use your bread maker. That may seem like a longish list but it's small in comparison!I have yet to have any loaf not work. (Incidentally if you ever continue to have bad loaves check the freshness of your ingredients. I had a friend complain about her bread maker and she had old yeast, old baking soda, old baking powder. Bought new and all loaves were perfect! They do matter.)Know going in: These recipes typically call for wheat gluten. Although my regular grocery doesn't carry it, I order mine dirt cheap on Amazon and it's worth it. We now use it in ALL recipes regardless of cookbook...it really improves the taste and texture even if you thought nothing was missing before.Most recipes have the ingredients for a 1.5 pound and a 2 pound loaf. A few are just for a 1.5 pound loaf but work just fine in my 2 pound loaf machine.Negatives: Maybe it would be too time consuming to do for such a huge book, but I really appreciate that one of my other favorite bread machine cookbooks includes the nutritionals for each loaf/slice including the calorie count. That may not matter to everyone but I do like an overview of what I'm taking in. For those who need photos, there aren't any here, although there are drawings. That doesn't matter to me so much especially since all breads are so similar but I know many like cookbooks with photos.Conclusion: I think it's a must have to add variety to your sandwiches and bread routine. You could get by with just this one cookbook for your bread maker and be happy with the endless recipes I think. Wish they had nutritionals but I forgive them that due to the long length of the book already...but maybe in a revised edition at the bottom of each page??
The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook: A Master Baker's 300 Favorite Recipes for Perfect-Every-Time Bread-From Every Kind of Machine
The recipes and information about breads and flours are extensive. It's fun reading.Major weakness: The recipes are written in a small font on a medium green background. Even with my normal reading glasses I have to use a magnifying glass to distinguish numbers in the fractions of cups.This means that I will have to type the recipe and print it out in an easily readable font size. I will not be able to assemble the ingredients straight from the book.
The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook: A Master Baker's 300 Favorite Recipes for Perfect-Every-Time Bread-From Every Kind of Machine
Hi!This book works perfectly with my Panasonic bread machine and I have had perfect bread practically every time. (only failure in a year was the flax bread!) I do not have any problems with the recipes being too dry. I even add a lot of whole wheat in with regular white recipes (3/4 white to 1/4 whole wheat) and it still turns out great as long as you add a little water to the dough to compensate for the wheat. (But the recipes I follow by the book do not require me to do so....)It does say SAF yeast is recommended but I was using that but switched to regular bread machine yeast (easier to find) and they STILL come out great. Each recipe will say for example "2 tsp. SAF yeast OR 2 1/2 tsp. bread machine yeast." so for regular bread machine yeast you need to use a little more but definately guaranteed results. (at least with the Panasonic SDYD250 machine... I know every bread machine model is different. For baking outside of the machine I have had no problem with that either. I have had no problem finding the ingredients even gluten, which is sold at my local supermarkets (and I live in the country in Wisconsin) so I am surprised a person would need to go to a specialty store in California to find gluten! (according to one of the reviews here)Try the sesame bread and the vienna bread! they are both quick and easy recipes that I make often.I am Vegan and do not consume dairy so anyone who is Vegan/Vegetarian can substitute milk for soymilk,egg replacer for eggs and agave nectar for honey and it works fine.Anyhow, give this book a shot expecially for ten bucks or so, I really feel it is worth it.
The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook: A Master Baker's 300 Favorite Recipes for Perfect-Every-Time Bread-From Every Kind of Machine
I bought all of the top rated bread machine cookbooks when I invested in my Zo and this book by far is the hands down favorite. Now don't get me wrong, there are certain areas where I feel this book lacks in variety/depth of topic (in particular pizza doughs, coffee cakes, etc.), but the scope of this book is so large that I don't think it could try to tackle those those with great detail. Those topics are included in the book, just brief for my liking. I have made many recipes from the book and never, not once, made a bad loaf (both in look and taste).The fundamentals in this book are it's greatest asset. I think once you understand all of her tips and logic, the sky is the limit. One thing I don't like is that some of these tidbits of wisdom are scattered through the book which makes it hard to find at times, but I'm glad they are there. There are two indexes in the back that help with this but sometimes a little tricky.I would agree with other reviewers, if I aerate the flour, I always have to add more flour to these recipes to get the right "ball" during the knead. At first that frustrated me but it's somewhat part of bread making anyway...darn humidity.The best sandwich breads I have had out of this book have all used buttermilk or sour cream. I make the Instant Potato Bread all the time on the quick cycle in my machine, and it always turns out soft on the inside, crusty on the outside..just perfect! The Basic Pizza Dough recipe is hands down the best pizza dough recipe I have ever tried, and I've tried over 20 of them in search of the perfect hand-tossed type crust. The best recipe by far from this book that I have tried is the Cinnamon Swirl bread. It is an absolute must for anyone to try. The Cinnabun coffee cake is also excellent and the hamburger bun recipe is wonderful. I haven't made a bad tasting loaf yet, and I've tried many of the recipes. I use this book as my go-to book when in doubt, and it hasn't let me down yet. Now if only it were spiral-bound....
The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook: A Master Baker's 300 Favorite Recipes for Perfect-Every-Time Bread-From Every Kind of Machine
I bought this book at the same time that I purchased my first bread machine (a Sunbeam 5891). Many reviewers sang the praises of Beth Hensberger's book, and I was excited at getting started with baking bread at home. I was looking to lose weight and eat healthier whole-grain bread with most of my meals.Bread machines have absolutely lived up to everything that I hoped; in fact, I've moved on to a better machine. This book, on the other hand, was a disappointment. Three stars is the most that I can give. I am amazed at the number of 5-star ratings that the book received.While the book does indeed provide a large number of recipes, only 28 use whole-grain flour, and in some of these the whole-grain flour is less than half of the total flour -- sometimes much less.But the worst problem is that the vast majority of recipes in the book contain the dreaded words, "This recipe is not suitable for use with the Delay Timer." In other words, it contains ingredients that cannot safely sit at room temperature for hours before the baking cycle begins. This means you cannot use these recipes for baking bread overnight, ready to wake you at breakfast. It also means that you cannot use them to bake during the day while you are at work, ready to be eaten hot with dinner. I can only conclude that the book is primarily intended for homemakers who will be home 3 - 4 hours after the cycle starts, ready to pull the hot bread out of the machine and let it cool. (While one could bake the bread immediately and leave it in the machine after baking, you would be risking having it dry out. I don't recommend it.)I counted at least 214 recipes that said "This recipe is not suitable for use with the Delay Timer," or required the baker to pull out the dough and bake it in the oven, or required the baker to interrupt the machine cycle some hours after starting and restart. None of these 214 recipes can be made overnight or while you are away at the office. In the Sweet Breads chapter, I did not seen *any* recipes that did not have these problems!Yes, some of the recipes are quite tasty, and the machine does bake them well. But I am rarely able to make them given my busy schedule and tendency to be away from home on weekends.If you believe, as I do, that the real glory of the bread machine is its crockpot-like ability to bake bread while you are *not* home, ready to be served upon your arrival, look elsewhere for your bread recipes.
The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook: A Master Baker's 300 Favorite Recipes for Perfect-Every-Time Bread-From Every Kind of Machine
Oh, my! What delicious homemade breads I produce using this cookbook! Not only are the recipes fabulous, but Beth Hensperger has also done a fantastic job with the educational portions of the book as well.The book opens with a section explaining bread machines in general, followed by a section about the process of bread making. She explains how different flours and other ingredients affect the loaf, and tells you what to expect of your machine. Interspersed among the recipes, the author adds a page or two of helpful information pertaining to the type of recipes in that chapter.Our family absolutely loves the breads I have made using this cookbook. I think our favorite white bread recipe so far is Sour Cream Bread (page 53.) It is incredible! Other favorites are the Cornmeal Honey Bread (page 148) and my favorite whole-wheat recipe, White Whole Wheat Bread (page 127.) With more than 300 recipes to try, it will be a long time before we have tested them all.One thing to mention - I have a Panasonic bread machine and I use only King Arthur flour and Fleischman's instant yeast. That combination always produces a loaf that rises too high using these recipes. I have cut the yeast back to the "SAF yeast" proportions the author gives, and have cut the vital wheat gluten back a bit as well (King Arthur flour has a higher gluten level than some others.) Doing so has helped the loaves come out perfectly.I can't say enough good things about this cookbook. If you buy only one bread machine cookbook, let this be the one!