Four Seasons with the Bread Machine Baker

by Elizabeth Harbison

Over 125 recipes for both sweet and savory breads, all geared to the seasons of the year and all utilizing a bread machine baker, a new staple in many households. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517162989
• ISBN13: 9780517162989
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Gramercy Books
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

For the intelligent user

I have had (and used) bread machine bakers for seventeen years now, so I consider myself an experienced BM user. I learned a lot from Bread Machine Baking : Perfect Every Time. In that book, the recipes are given for eight different brands and types of bread machines. Different machines have different proportions in ingredients. The way to use the 'Four Seasons Bread Machine Baker' is: look at the recipes in the instructions manual of your own BM, and adapt the recipes from E.M. Harbison according to those. I agree with the previous reviewer that she prescribes a rather large amount of yeast, I use half the amount, and get excellent results. The complaint from the previous reviewer that there are only one pound recipes in the book struck me as strange. What cookbook gives recipes for 2, 4, 6 and 8 persons? Just change the amounts proportionally if you want a larger loaf (as Harbison herself advises on page xi of the introduction). You can bake excellent, wonderful, delicious breads with the recipes from this book. But you have to THINK (adapt the recipes to your machine, calculate the amounts for bigger loafs), and that may be asking too much of some people.