Great Natural Breads Made Easy
by Bernice Hunt
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- Over 100 kitchen-tested recipes and variations
- Presents easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions
- Provides helpful instructional illustrations
- Includes tips and guidelines throughout
- Offers useful preparation techniques and baking methods
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Great Natural Breads Made Easy
Who can resist the incomparable aroma and fabulous flavor of freshly baked bread? Called the “staff of life” for good reason, wholesome bread has been a dietary staple throughout the world for thousands of years. Today, although commercial breads contain more healthful natural ingredients than they did a generation ago, they simply cannot compete with the taste and nutritional goodness of a whole grain loaf baked in your own oven. The problem has long been that making bread is too difficult—or so it seemed until now. Written by bread-baking expert Bernice Hunt, Great Natural Breads Made Easy is a simple step-by-step guide that enables anyone to make a spectacular loaf of artisan bread—even if they’ve never baked before.
Divided into two parts, the book begins with a brief history of bread, followed by a “basics” chapter that contains information on the key ingredients, simple equipment, and helpful techniques for producing perfect loaves every time. What follows next are seven chapters packed with easy-to-follow recipes for a variety of delectable breads. Among the treasure trove of recipes, you will find yeast bread classics like Honey Whole Wheat, Italian Semolina, Sourdough Rye, Jewish Challah, and French-Style Baguettes; sweet yeast bread choices, such as Caramel Rolls, Hot Cross Buns, and a Swedish Tea Ring that is as beautiful as it is delicious; and taste-tempting quick breads and muffins, sensational flatbreads and rolls, and down-home biscuits and turnovers. You’ll even discover how easy it is to make chewy bagels and those big, fat, soft pretzels that are popular at carnivals and a trademark of the Pennsylvania Dutch. Rounding out the book is a chapter on luscious dips and spreads to accompany your freshly baked loaves. To further insure bread-making success, Lauren Jarrett’s instructional illustrations show exactly how each step is performed.
There is nothing more satisfying than biting into a still-warm-from-the-oven slice of homemade bread. So whether you are a novice baker who has avoided making bread because you thought the process was too difficult, or you are a seasoned bread maker who is looking to expand your repertoire of recipes, it’s time to discover the joys of Great Natural Breads Made Easy. Never has bread making been simpler.
About The Author
Bernice Hunt, MS, has always found time to indulge her love of cooking and writing. An author of over seventy books and numerous magazine articles, Bernice began her writing career as an author and editor of children’s science books. Between caring for her family and pursuing a busy career, she found herself inventing shortcuts in the kitchen to achieve traditional results without sacrificing taste. Although it is now easier than ever to purchase natural, healthful bread, she still prefers to bake her own for all the pleasures it affords.
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CONTENTS
Introduction
THE BASICS
1. The History of Bread
2. A Loaf of Bread. . . The Basics
THE RECIPES
3. Mostly White Breads
4. Whole Grain Breads
5. Sourdough Breads
6. Sweet Yeast Breads
7. Quick Breads, Biscuits, and Muffins
8. Flatbreads, Rolls, and More
9. Dips and Spreads
Metric Conversion Tables
LIST OF RECIPES
"Foolproof" Sourdough Starter "Wild Yeast" Sourdough Starter 75 Minute Health Bread Additional Items Anadama Bread Baba Ghanoush Baking Soda and Baking Powder Baking the Loaves Basic Bread-Making Method Basic Muffins Basic Sweet Yeast Dough Basic White Bread Basic White Bread Ingredients Bowls Bread Pans and Baking Sheets Caramel Rolls (Schnecken) Caraway Potato Bread Carrot Bread Challah Classic Sourdough Bread Clotted Cream Corn Muffins Corn-Wheat Bread Cranberry Nut Bread Cream Cheese and Chives Cream Cheese and Smoked Salmon (Lox) Crumb Cake Cuban Bread Date Nut Bread Dinner Rolls Down-Home Biscuits Egg Bagels Eggs Emergency Procedues and Diagnoses English Cottage Bread Equipment Fat Flour Focaccia French Bread French Bread-C'est Magnifique! French-Style Hard Rolls Fruit and Honey Loaf Green Bread Grow Your Own Sprouts Helpful Tips Before You Begin High Altitude Baking Honey Whole Wheat Bread Hot Cross Buns Hummus Irish Soda Bread It Starts with a Starter Jam Buns Kaffee Klatch Bread Kneading the Dough Kulich Lavash |
Letting the Dough Rise Letting the Dough Rise Again Matzoh Measuring Cups and Spoons Milk Multigrain Bread Multi-Seed Bread New York Bagels Norwegian Rye Bread Oatmeal Bread Olive Bread Olive Oil Dips Panettone Peasant Bread Pideh Pita Pizza Crust Potato-Rye Bread Preparing the Dough Pumpernickel Bread Pumpkin Bread Punching Down the Dough Quick Sourdough Bread Roadside Potato Bread Roasted Garlic Rosemary-Olive Oil Bread Rye-Corn-Potato Bread Salt and Other Flavor Enhancers Scones Scottish Soda Bread Semolina Bread Shaping the Loaves Soft Pretzels Sourdough Rye Bread Soy Bread Sprouted Wheat Bread Stollen Storing Bread Swedish Tea Ring Sweeteners Teething Biscuits Ten-Grain Bread The Artisan Baker Time To Begin Tomato-Basil Bread Turnovers Tzatziki Walnut Bread Water Wheat Germ Batter Bread Wheat-Berry Bread Wheatena Wheat Bread Whole Wheat Batter Bread Whole Wheat Rolls Yeast Yellow Corn Bread Zucchini Bread |
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