Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook: A Master Baker's 300 Favorite Recipes for Perfect-Every-Time Bread-From Every Kind of Machine

Beth Hensperger

Harvard Common Press, Apr 30, 2000 - Cooking - 656 pages

A master baker's 300 favorite recipes for perfect-every-time bread - from every kind of machine - by master breadmaker, Beth Hensperger. A fresh loaf any time you want!Can the incomparable taste, texture, and aroma of handcrafted bread from a neighborhood bakery be reproduced in a bread machine? When Beth Hensperger, one of America's most respected authorities on bread, first set out to try, she had doubts. Then she spent hundreds of hours testing all kinds of breads in a bread machine, and her answer turned out to be a resounding “Yes!” In this big and bountiful book full of more than 300 recipes, she reveals all the simple secrets for perfect bread every time.No matter how you slice it, Beth's brilliant recipes add up to a lifetime of fun with your bread machine!
Recipes include:White Breads
Egg Breads
Whole Wheat Breads
Rye Breads
Gluten-Free Breads
Multigrain Breads
Country Breads
Sourdough Breads
Herb Breads
Nut Breads
Vegetable and Fruit Breads
Cheese Breads
Pizza and Focaccia
Breakfast Breads
Coffee Cakes and Sweet Rolls
Chocolate Breads
Jams and Chutneys
Croutons and Crostini
Flavored Butters and Other Toppings

What people are saying

A MUST for kitchen

User Review  - cathain - Overstock.com

This is the Best Bread Machine Cookbook! It easily doubles as a text book with lots of bread machine information from brand to brand and how they differ.

For beginners and pros

User Review  - keyboard44 - Overstock.com

Has almost any type of bread you could ever think of. I tried about seven or eight and found them easy to understand and the bread came out very good. Didnt know that there were that many types of ...

Contents

• White Breads and Egg Breads: 42
• Pasta Doughs from: 94
• Whole Wheat WholeGrain: 100
• leat Broads: 102
• Buttermilk Whole Wheat Bread: 108
• ThreeSeed Whole Wheat Bread: 116
• Whole Wheat Crescent Dinner: 123
• Cracked Wheat Bread: 129
• Swedish Rye Bread: 136
• Sunflower Pumpernickel Rye: 142
• Cornmeal Honey Bread: 148
• Country Breads: 194
• Breads Made with the Produce of the Garden: 300
• Pizzas: 386
• Chocolate Fruit and Other: 428
• NoYeast Quick Breads: 538
• Jams Preserves and Chutneys in Your Bread Machine: 562
• Crumbs Croutons: 584
• Spreads Butters: 597
• General Index: 617
• OnePound Loaves 69: 623
• Recipe Index: 628
• Sampler Brioche Egg Loaf 69: 632
• Mixes and Some Special Breads Created from Them 335: 641
• Sampler Country White Loaf 70: 642

About the author

Beth Hensperger, a New Jersey native who has lived in California since her teens, has been educating, writing, and demo-lecturing about the art of baking for over 30 years. In the last few years, she has shifted focus to countertop appliance-driven cookbooks that embrace adapting traditional and professional recipes for the home cook: the bread machine, the rice cooker, the microwave, and a four-volume compilation specifically for use with the electric slow cooker, stressing personal creativity in preparation and selection of ingredients. Hensperger is the author of over 22 cookbooks, including the best-selling Not Your Mother's series, which includes: Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Recipes for Two, Not Your Mother's Microwave Cookbook, Not Your Mother's Fondue, Not Your Mother's Casseroles Revised and Expanded Edition, and Not Your Mother's Make-Ahead and Freeze Cookbook Revised and Expanded Edition, along with the blockbuster first volume, Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook. Her other books include highly-acclaimed titles such as The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook and The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook. She is also the author of The Bread Bible (Chronicle Books), winner of a James Beard Award in 2000. She has twice been nominated for the Julia Child/IACP Cookbook Award. Hensperger wrote a San Jose Mercury News food column for twelve years, Baking with the Seasons. She is a contributor to dozens of national and online cooking & lifestyle magazines, such as Food & Wine, Every Day with Rachael Ray magazine, Veggie Life, Cooking Light, Working Woman, Victoria, Prevention, and Family Circle, and is a sought after newspaper and radio interviewee speaking on slow cooking, bread baking, and entertaining. She lives in the San Francisco Bay area. Visit her website at bethhensperger.com and blog at notyourmotherscookbook.com.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook: A Master Baker's 300 Favorite Recipes for Perfect-Every-Time Bread-From Every Kind of Machine
• Author: Beth Hensperger
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Harvard Common Press, 2000
• ISBN: 155832156X, 9781558321564
• Length: 656 pages
• Subjects: Cooking / Courses & Dishes / Bread; Cooking / Methods / Special Appliances