The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook, Newly Expanded and Updated: A Master Baker's 300-Plus Favorite Recipes for Perfect-Every-Time Bread-From Eve

By Beth Hensperger

Book Overview

Enjoy the ease, speed, and money-saving convenience of your bread machine as you make breads that have the taste, texture, and aroma of the handcrafted breads from a neighborhood bakery.

In this newly revised edition of the best-selling and most comprehensive bread-machine book ever written, The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook, you will see the latest trends in bread reflected, with more sourdough breads, more gluten- and dairy-free breads, more breads from global cuisines, and more breads that feature veggies, fruits, and other plant-based ingredients. Also find information and tips on the latest technical developments in bread machines, such as programmable preset buttons.

When master baker Beth Hensperger, author of the James Beard Award-winning cookbook The Bread Bible, first set out to try to make bakery-quality breads in the bread machine, she doubted it would even be possible. So she spent hundreds of hours testing all sorts of breads in every kind of bread machine--and her doubts vanished In this big, bountiful book, full of more than 325 bakery-delicious recipes, she reveals the simple secrets for perfect bread-machine bread, every time you make it. The book includes:
Whole-Wheat and Other Whole-Grain Breads White Breads and Egg Breads Sourdough Breads Cheese, Herb, Nut, Seed, and Spice Breads Fruit and Vegetable Breads Pizza Crusts, Focaccia, and other Flatbreads Coffee Cakes, Sweet Rolls, and Chocolate Breads No-Yeast Quick Breads Holiday Breads
This is a great big book by a master of bread that is guaranteed to give you a lifetime of ideas for delectable, easy-to-make breads.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076039329X
• ISBN13: 9780760393291
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Harvard Common Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Great Bread Machine Cookbook (I've owned two copies!)

I had this book before a series of unfortunate events led to me losing it (along with the rest of my books). I LOVED this book, and just recently got a new bread machine and knew I had to have another copy. The bread recipes are fantastic with sizes from 1 to 2 lbs. There are also a handful of gluten free bread recipes (yay for me, and all of my other celiac and gluten-intolerant friends) that could easily be adapted by the right baker to make many types of gluten-free loaf. Great, all-around book for many types of bread that, in my experience, have always been spot on.

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Best Bread Machine Cookbook that I have found!

I have tried for many years to bake a good loaf of bread in my bread machine without success, however after purchasing this cookbook I make bread on a regular basis and all my loaves come out great!! I no longer buy bread at the market as both my husband and I prefer our homemade bread. Our favorite recipe is the Light Whole Wheat Bread but we have several others that I have made following the author's recipes. Trust me, these are no fail. If I can make them and they come out great anyone can.

I use this book more than any other cookbook on my shelf

I am a working mom but I love to cook and I love good food. My husband is European and won't eat American store-bought bread, so I got my first bread maker shortly after we were married almost 16 years ago. I got this book quite a few years ago and I've opened it about once a week since (about how often I make bread). I've made more than half of the recipes in the book, and they are all wonderful. I really couldn't live without it. However, as others have said, the whole wheat recipes are generally not quite that. Only one or two of the WW recipes are 100%. The others have half to 3/4 white flour. The author explains why - she doesn't feel that you get a "satisfactory" result with the whole wheat flour, and she adds a lot of extra gluten to these recipes. However some of us really like the dense 100% whole wheat(or other grain) breads. I wish that there were a companion volume dedicated just to whole grains. I learned so much about machine bread baking from this book - now I want to learn just as much about machine bread making with 100% whole grains. I'd really like to understand the properties of the other bread-grains better, as well.

Can't live without it!

I bought this book last Christmas after receiving a machine for a gift. I made a few recipes from the owner's manual and experienced quite a few flops. I refused to be defeated and knew there must be a book out there that would help me make good bread (with the machine that I had begged for). THIS is the book! I read all the reviews that precede 2002 and got the book right away. I love the way Hensperger explains ingredients, the science of bread and how the machine works. We use our machine at least 3-4 times a week. Some of my favorites from the book include the Hamburger and Hot Dog Buns (I will never buy storebought again!), the Garlic Foccacia, the Orange Bread with White Chocolate, Apricots and Walnuts, and for sandwiches my family loves the Instant Potato Bread and the Maple Buttermilk Bread, both of which turn out light and fluffly.I remember reading a review that discussed the different ways to measure flour. For some reason, if I do it Hensperger's way, I always have to add more flour. So, I just scoop it without aerating the flour first.Another review mentioned that you "have to" use SAF yeast. I haven't found this to be true. I have used the SAF, but have also used fast-acting and bread machine yeast. Both have turned out fine. All of the ingredients have been at a local supermarket (I live in a small town - 23,000, on the Central Coast of CA) except the specialty flours like barley, spelt, semolina, etc. Those I have found at a health-food store.I can't say enough good things about this book! My copy is tattered and stained and I am enjoying working my way through all the recipes. It is a book I definitely can't live without

Every recipe is a hit!

I bought this book because I read the reviews written by other customers and they were overall very good. So far I've made 3 recipes from the book - a flax seed bread, beer bread and a whole wheat bread - and they've all turned out amazingly well. I was resigned to the "fact" that bread machine bread was more dense than grocery store bread - until I tried these recipes. The bread is light and moist and the crust is crispy and delicious. I haven't bought the SAF yeast, I'm using regular bread machine yeast but it doesn't seem to matter. I admit - because I'm from Canada, apparently our flour is different from US flour - that I modify the recipes a bit - reducing the flour by 1/8 to 1/4 cup. I've also found that I can reduce the amount of sugar and fat called for in the recipes and still have excellent results.This book is wonderful and I would recommend it to anyone with a bit of knowledge of baking and a desire to spend some time with their bread machines.