Complete Book Bread & Bread Mach

by Christine Ingram

Complete great book for bread.

Genres: Cookbooks, Reference, Cooking, Nonfiction, Food

512 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

Reviews

[Mikel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fabulous! I finally got both my breadmaker and my wheat grinder. It was a great weekend of fresh made bread. I love that the last half of this book if full of great recipes for your breadmaker while the first half is devoted to making bread by hand. Tons of great information.

[Tristan Colgate · Rating 5 out of 5]

This would be easy to dismiss if you're a bit of a bread book snob. The recipes are excellent though, with an enormous variety. There's a good discussion of adapting recipes for (and from) bread machines. If you love bread, and breads from around the world, this is a real gem.

[Dan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bible of bread - advices on when and how to add different ingredients and how to get perfect textures. Never go wrong.

[Lora · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is something of a self absorbed encyclopdeia of the history of bread and the cooking of bread both with and without a machine. The recipes are very exacting and the measurements are rather difficult for the average person to decipher at times. However, I practically live by this book; I call it my 'Bread Bible'. Bread is a lot more forgiving than these folks would have you believe. But the history and information on every possible ingredient is great reading by itself, and the recipes have proven time and again to be great for taste and art. I don't measure nearly as carefully as I used to when I first got this book- I just scoop and toss. That's sort of the way I have fallen in the world, I suppose. It's an excellent book and mine is getting better each year as I make notes all through the recipes and add more general notes inside the covers.
I absolutely love this book. Mine is hard cover, it's as much a coffee table book as anything, and now it smells of yeast and flour and warm winter kitchens. Can a person fall any more in love with a book?

I just have to come back and emphasize my love for this book. I just tried two new recipes out of it, one by hand and one in a machine, and both came out looking at least as good as the photos. I beat the photo curse, whereby photo foods are so dressed up for photogenuity that one can never achieve the same appearance without a professional food make up artist! Yee-haw! An honest book and a learning reader, there is no better combination!

[Lana · Rating 5 out of 5]

This reminds me of the DK Eyewitness books for children. It too, is jam packed full of info along with the numerous corresponding photos. The book has 2 parts, pages 1-240 is on the history and cultural variations of bread. The second half is devoted to the how to aspect with pages 254-306 on supplies & tools for baking, and pages 310-501 full of over 250 recipes.