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Let's Bake Bread!: A Family Cookbook to Foster Learning, Curiosity, and Skill Building in Your Kids
Celebrate the joy of baking together with this unique family cookbook.
Written by the bestselling author of Bread Baking for Beginners , who is also a homeschooling mother of three with a keen take on how to teach children useful skills, Let’s Bake Bread! is filled with foolproof recipes that will turn kids into confident bakers and helpers in the kitchen. Start with an easy-to-handle cloud dough, and your youngest will soon be making Snail Rolls and On the Run Energy Buns (all the while improving their fine motor skills). Graduate to adventure dough and kids will learn about eating seasonally while making pizza, focaccia, and flatbreads. Breads like pita, naan, and conchas highlight lessons about cultures around the world. Culminating for kids twelve and up is the holy grail for all home the simple science of sourdough. What better or more delicious way to spend quality time together?
Written by the bestselling author of Bread Baking for Beginners , who is also a homeschooling mother of three with a keen take on how to teach children useful skills, Let’s Bake Bread! is filled with foolproof recipes that will turn kids into confident bakers and helpers in the kitchen. Start with an easy-to-handle cloud dough, and your youngest will soon be making Snail Rolls and On the Run Energy Buns (all the while improving their fine motor skills). Graduate to adventure dough and kids will learn about eating seasonally while making pizza, focaccia, and flatbreads. Breads like pita, naan, and conchas highlight lessons about cultures around the world. Culminating for kids twelve and up is the holy grail for all home the simple science of sourdough. What better or more delicious way to spend quality time together?
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248 pages, Hardcover
Published October 17, 2023
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June 7, 2023
Synopsis (from Netgalley, the provider of the book for me to review.)
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Celebrate the surprisingly joyous intersection of baking and learning in a family cookbook from the bestselling author of Bread Baking for Beginners
Bonnie Ohara is an entrepreneurial baker and author of the bestseller, Bread Baking for Beginners, which answered so many readers’ needs for a baking bible during the pandemic. She is also a homeschooling mother of three, and a naturally gifted teacher with a keen and creative take on how to turn a practical activity, like baking, into a valuable educational experience. This is the unique promise of Let’s Bake Bread!—a cookbook for families with kids ages three and up filled with delicious, foundational, foolproof recipes for baking that double as teaching opportunities for everything from organization and sensory awareness to history, science, math, and nutrition.
Starting with a soft, enriched and very forgiving “cloud” dough, Let’s Bake Bread! coordinates both its recipes and lessons for a baker’s age and experience, with annotations for the parents helping in the kitchen. Kids three and up will quickly be making Snail Rolls, On the Run Energy Buns, and Fluffy French Milk Bread—and Raspberry Jam to go with it—all the while improving their fine motor skills and learning organization and patience. Within a few years, they’ll be tackling a leaner “adventure” dough—perfect for pizza, focaccia, and flatbreads—with lessons that focus on the seasons and include weather observation and journaling. Next up, breads around the world—pita, naan, tortillas, and more—with insights on history and culture, culminating, for kids twelve and up, in the holy grail for all home bakers, sourdough.
Baking with your kids, even just a couple of times a month, instills lessons in patience and mindfulness while modeling critical thinking, creativity, and curiosity. Not to mention teaching, say, division and multiplication in such tangible ways that they’ll stick forever. And, at the end of the day, there’s delicious bread to enjoy! What could be better?
It has been proven that kids who help with making the food that they eat are more likely to eat it and this book will teach some great skills (fractions and cooking go together like peas and carrots!) and be some quality family time in the kitchen and will help build kitchen skills in adults and their children. I always loved feeding the sourdough as a kid and like everyone else, made sourdough during COVID lockdown – I gave away my starter though as we were eating so much bread that the numbers on the scales kept going up. (It didn’t help that we made our own butter to go with it!)
There are great ideas in here for teaching opportunities along with some great bread coming out of the oven: I will recommend it to families and singletons who are afraid of trying to bake bread, and I know a lot of them come through our doors.
#shortbutsweetreviews
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Celebrate the surprisingly joyous intersection of baking and learning in a family cookbook from the bestselling author of Bread Baking for Beginners
Bonnie Ohara is an entrepreneurial baker and author of the bestseller, Bread Baking for Beginners, which answered so many readers’ needs for a baking bible during the pandemic. She is also a homeschooling mother of three, and a naturally gifted teacher with a keen and creative take on how to turn a practical activity, like baking, into a valuable educational experience. This is the unique promise of Let’s Bake Bread!—a cookbook for families with kids ages three and up filled with delicious, foundational, foolproof recipes for baking that double as teaching opportunities for everything from organization and sensory awareness to history, science, math, and nutrition.
Starting with a soft, enriched and very forgiving “cloud” dough, Let’s Bake Bread! coordinates both its recipes and lessons for a baker’s age and experience, with annotations for the parents helping in the kitchen. Kids three and up will quickly be making Snail Rolls, On the Run Energy Buns, and Fluffy French Milk Bread—and Raspberry Jam to go with it—all the while improving their fine motor skills and learning organization and patience. Within a few years, they’ll be tackling a leaner “adventure” dough—perfect for pizza, focaccia, and flatbreads—with lessons that focus on the seasons and include weather observation and journaling. Next up, breads around the world—pita, naan, tortillas, and more—with insights on history and culture, culminating, for kids twelve and up, in the holy grail for all home bakers, sourdough.
Baking with your kids, even just a couple of times a month, instills lessons in patience and mindfulness while modeling critical thinking, creativity, and curiosity. Not to mention teaching, say, division and multiplication in such tangible ways that they’ll stick forever. And, at the end of the day, there’s delicious bread to enjoy! What could be better?
It has been proven that kids who help with making the food that they eat are more likely to eat it and this book will teach some great skills (fractions and cooking go together like peas and carrots!) and be some quality family time in the kitchen and will help build kitchen skills in adults and their children. I always loved feeding the sourdough as a kid and like everyone else, made sourdough during COVID lockdown – I gave away my starter though as we were eating so much bread that the numbers on the scales kept going up. (It didn’t help that we made our own butter to go with it!)
There are great ideas in here for teaching opportunities along with some great bread coming out of the oven: I will recommend it to families and singletons who are afraid of trying to bake bread, and I know a lot of them come through our doors.
#shortbutsweetreviews
October 28, 2023
Bringing Baking to Your House
Bonnie has hit another one out of the park. But this time it includes the entire family. Focused toward children but that’s only the beginning. No matter if you homeschool or not you can incorporate this into your family.
Those of us without children can involve our significant others or friends in your life. Consider clearing off the dining room table and make pizza together with a group of friends.
Thank you Bonnie!
Bonnie has hit another one out of the park. But this time it includes the entire family. Focused toward children but that’s only the beginning. No matter if you homeschool or not you can incorporate this into your family.
Those of us without children can involve our significant others or friends in your life. Consider clearing off the dining room table and make pizza together with a group of friends.
Thank you Bonnie!
December 30, 2023
I really liked this one and will be purchasing this one too share with my children when it comes out.
I liked how it talks about using baking to help with feelings and having patience and overcoming imperfections.
My daughter and I made the rainbow bread and loved it!
Thanks NetGalley for this ARC.
I liked how it talks about using baking to help with feelings and having patience and overcoming imperfections.
My daughter and I made the rainbow bread and loved it!
Thanks NetGalley for this ARC.
January 22, 2024
Great book for all ages, beginners or teaching students math, science and baking. It even has some history! Simple to more advanced recipes are included. Very clear instructions and explanations. Very nice variety of recipes and very realistic. I especially appreciated the chapter on sour dough. Would be a great family gift.
June 17, 2024
Very nice bread and baking cookbook. Recipes are leaning towards artisan style breads, but the directions and photos and very nice. Good advice and an excellent source for beginning bakers.
November 6, 2024
A treasure. So thoughtful, clear, welcoming, and encouraging. I haven’t baked any of the recipes, but I would. This is written like a warm, late day, sunlit kitchen with kids giggling and chattering away, ready to help.
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