Baking Artisan Bread: 10 Expert Formulas for Baking Better Bread at Home

by Ciril Hitz

Baking Artisan Bread provides an unintimidating, formula-based approach to baking bread at home. With step-by-step, photo-illustrated instructions, chef Ciril Hitz shows you how with just 10 formulas you can create more than 30 different breads.

After a full exploration of the ingredients, equipment, and techniques of bread baking , move confidently into the kitchen to bake a range of bread types with easy-to-follow recipes for these Once you’ve mastered these staples, expand your repertoire with variations on each formula . Baguette dough yields a bouquet of breadsticks , buttery brioche becomes an elegant fruit Danish , challah transforms into delicately flavored orange aniseed wheels , and so on—deliciously.

Baking bread is fun, but the fruits of the labor are often copious. Ciril comes to the rescue with some basic recipes that include bread as a main ingredient , including bread crumbs , croutons , bagel chips , French toast , and bread pudding . A second set of extras includes formulas to help make your bread creations sing, with washes and glazes as well as ideas for sweet and savory embellishments to guide your culinary creativity.

With simple ingredients and most of the equipment needed already in the kitchen, you’ll be filling your home with the heavenly aroma of baking bread in no time!

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Food, Ebooks, Nonfiction, Mine, Reference

176 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[Rooks · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really informative without being particularly long-winded. I was waiting to write a review until I'd, you know, made some bread; today's ciabatta did not disappoint! It has extraordinarily clear instructions that tell you both how and why, which I always appreciate in something as precise and easy to screw up as bread baking. I'd definitely recommend this, and my review may go to five stars as I try more recipes.

[Heydi Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

My husband and I love this book. The recipes and instructions are fabulous!

[Bill]

Excellent book on baking bread. Use it regularly. Includes link to videos to show how to do certain baking manipulations.

[Laura · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've had great success with the baguette and the ciabatta formulas, I'm looking forward to trying the others!

[Heather · Rating 3 out of 5]

good, in-depth info without being as long or sounding as complicated as the bread bible or the baker's apprentice. the many variations on basic recipes gives plenty of options as well as inspiration for making my own changes. the DVD was great for seeing techniques in action that are hard to capture with still photography. now i just need to get baking....

[Rebecca]

I came across this bread baking book at Horizon Books, our favorite independent bookstore in Traverse City, Michigan. I've picked up several great bread cookbooks there. The bonus with this book is a DVD with excellent tips on shaping dough. I recommend this one!

[Marilyn Clay · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've never been much of a baker. However, I love Artisan Breads and my mission this winter is to master the 10 formulas in this book. Stay tuned!

[Nick]

Read the intro and skimmed the recipes. now I just gotta bake something! Pizza dough is probably one of the first things.

[Yasmeen · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best bread baking books you'll ever use.

[Sandie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great baking book with many recipes for the advanced baker

[Janie Zekkou · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great but too advanced for me right now

[Bridgette Sparks · Rating 4 out of 5]

loved the chart in the back of the book. More detail than Jim Lahey's book,

[Marilyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was so amazing I bought it!! It comes with a DVD that shows how to handle and shape the dough--I have learned a lot!!

[Jennah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great tried and true recipes.

[Mckinley · Rating 4 out of 5]

With illustrations, explanations and instructions