pqlibrarian's review
5.0
What a fantastic cookbook! Michelle Anderson includes recipes for MANY types of bread that can be easily made using your bread machine. She explains the entire bread making process! I am eager to get started baking these breads (some of the traditional regional breads I haven't ever heard of!) - I hope my attempts turn out half as lovely as the photos in the book.
valeriereadingnook's review
4.0
Like many, I have a bread machine. I have sometimes used it a lot and I had not done so lately. This book was a nice opportunity to enjoy baking again but without creating this square lump that comes out of the bread machine.
I found the first part of the book very informative, even for someone familiar with the bread machine. The book contains many interesting details on ingredients, on different bread machines and techniques, but also tips about baking at high altitude or gluten free baking.
The range of recipes given is nice, all using a limited range of natural ingredients in the spirit of artisan baking. I tried some recipes and had varying degrees of success, but bread making is an art so I will make more experiments to tune the recipes to my machine and my ingredients.
I enjoyed this book and found it very useful, with clear explanations and good tips. I think it would have been nice to have more pictures of the techniques used to work with the bread outside the machine,
A nice book to bake as a team with your bread machine.
Thank you to Netgalley, Quarto Publishing-Harvard Common Press, and the author, for the privilege of an advance readers' copy.
#MakingArtisanBreadsintheBreadMachine #NetGalley
I found the first part of the book very informative, even for someone familiar with the bread machine. The book contains many interesting details on ingredients, on different bread machines and techniques, but also tips about baking at high altitude or gluten free baking.
The range of recipes given is nice, all using a limited range of natural ingredients in the spirit of artisan baking. I tried some recipes and had varying degrees of success, but bread making is an art so I will make more experiments to tune the recipes to my machine and my ingredients.
I enjoyed this book and found it very useful, with clear explanations and good tips. I think it would have been nice to have more pictures of the techniques used to work with the bread outside the machine,
A nice book to bake as a team with your bread machine.
Thank you to Netgalley, Quarto Publishing-Harvard Common Press, and the author, for the privilege of an advance readers' copy.
#MakingArtisanBreadsintheBreadMachine #NetGalley
anjana's review
4.0
It has been a while since I picked a recipe book to scan through. I own a bread machine that I only used for the same standard function that worked. I have made pizza dough more often than actual bread, if I actually think about it.
This is a very well placed collection. The information is laid out in a way that keeps you interested and simple enough to think it can be done. I am yet to try any of the recipes since my bread machine is currently in storage but I intend to try something (someday). The name is a misnomer though because quite a few of them need something outside of the standard machine’s capacity. In a sense, it begins there but then is modelled by hand and put into an oven. I do not know how I thought it would be otherwise given the shape of a standard machine, but I did think it might all be done with the machine. That is on me! These digital review copies come with a life and you have to finish them before they vanish, hence the review despite not having attempted the actual recipes.
I would recommend this to anyone who wanted to put their machines to more use. I received an ARC thanks to NetGalley and the publishers but the review is entirely based on my own perusing experience and my slight acquaintance with bread baking in a machine.
This is a very well placed collection. The information is laid out in a way that keeps you interested and simple enough to think it can be done. I am yet to try any of the recipes since my bread machine is currently in storage but I intend to try something (someday). The name is a misnomer though because quite a few of them need something outside of the standard machine’s capacity. In a sense, it begins there but then is modelled by hand and put into an oven. I do not know how I thought it would be otherwise given the shape of a standard machine, but I did think it might all be done with the machine. That is on me! These digital review copies come with a life and you have to finish them before they vanish, hence the review despite not having attempted the actual recipes.
I would recommend this to anyone who wanted to put their machines to more use. I received an ARC thanks to NetGalley and the publishers but the review is entirely based on my own perusing experience and my slight acquaintance with bread baking in a machine.
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