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Bread Machine: how to prepare and bake the perfect loaf

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BREAD HOW TO PREPARE AND BAKE THE PERFECT LOAF tells

*How to get the best out of your bread machine--the bread making process, different settings and programs, techniques and troubleshooting.

*Over 150 traditional and contemporary recipes from around the world, all specifically created for use in your bread machine.

*Recipes range from the easiest basic breads to the more skilled hand-shaped savory breads, rolls and yeast cake.

*Includes all the classic favorites--White Bread, Farmhouse Loaf, French Bread, Four Seed Bread, Onion Focaccia, Ciabatta, Feta Cheese and Black Olive Loaf, Danish Pastries, Three Chocolate Bread, Passion Cake, Mixed Fruit Quickbread, and Petit Pain au Chocolat.

*All recipes are suitable for different sized machines, whether small, medium or large.

Start using your bread machine more creatively today!

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

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August 13, 2020
Excellent book bought from a hospice charity bookstore. Shows you how to be creative with your breadmaker. Gives a recipe for naan dough. Something which my Panasonic breadmaker brochure in 2015 didn't have. Indeed just bought another Panasonic breadmaker and the brochure still doesn't have a recipe for naan dough. I even mix my chappati dough in my breadmaker.
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September 3, 2025
Owned this book for years and it is my absolute bible. All the recipes work and I’m famous for my loaves that I take to parties. Favourites are: Black Russian bread , brioche bread (makes great burger rolls) cornbread with chillies - although I’ve tried them all at some time and never found a duff one
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October 21, 2015
This is my GO-TO book for using my two bread machines. I used to use the books that came with each machine respectively (and yes, they are very different from each other)... that is, until I got this book.

Jennie Shapter did a wonderful job perfectly calculating the ingredients needed to make each of her delicious breads. I have made twelve of her recipes, and each came out just right! You would be impressed with this if you consider that if one vital ingredient was off by as little as a teaspoon full, the resulting lump of what you would get could not be considered edible. Not a problem here, she masterfully gives the ingredients for not one size loaf, but for THREE different sized loaves! Until I got this book, I didn't even realize that I could make pizza dough in my bread makers!

If you buy this book as I did, you will not be disappointed- irrespective of which brand of machine you own!
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March 23, 2011
A lot of these look delicious! Except for some desserts, which I wouldn't make in a bread machine anyways, this book doesn't seem to suffer from "filler-itis"... the vast majority of the recipes made me go "Yum! I'm marking this down."
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