Adobe Oven for Old World Breads: Bread Cook Book [Paperback]

Charel Scheele (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 16, 2002

Who can resist the wonderful crusty breads baked at exclusive specialized small bakery shops?The joy of these handcrafted and horno baked goods can be yours with and adobe brick oven built right in your backyard. This will be a sensation in your neighborhood, and for your guests at your outdoor garden parties.Charel Scheele made the instructions simple and easy to follow on a step-by-step basis, with pictures to guide you.Included are also tantalizing bread recipes. You will find the mistery taken out of the sourdough and how to be sucessful in making starters and baking flavorful and delicious old fashioned loaves.In addition there are recipes for delightful flat and sweet breads as well as rolls.

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About the Author

Charel Scheele was born into a Dutch family of bakers and learned the craft not only by practice at his family bakeries but also by attending and graduating from two different European schools for professional bakers. He also was the recipient of many awards for his baked goods.

Product Details

• Paperback: 116 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse (September 16, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595243428
• ISBN-13: 978-0595243426
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #807,758 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #22 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Cooking, Food & Wine > Baking > Bread

Customer Reviews

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18 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great recipes and easy to follow, February 13, 2003

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Joy Campbell - See all my reviews

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Just received the book today, and read through it. The book is quite easy to read. I've been looking at several clay and masonry books, and really like this one. It even gives directions on building an adobe oven, which I really would like to do (but, in the middle of winter, in Wisconsin, that isn't going to happen). I'm planning on making it a school project with my homeschooled daughters this next summer. I was hoping there would be a few more pictures on showing how to put the oven together, but, I think I can figure it out. The recipes really have got my attention and can't wait to try them out, too.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars You can do a little better, October 27, 2009

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Sambo "Sambo" (NC) - See all my reviews

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This is not a bad book. It provides a simple design for building an adobe oven. That said, I think a far better purchase is "Build Your Own Earth Oven". Much more detailed, and much more creative.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent in it's Simplicity, January 13, 2009

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Thomas Parr - See all my reviews
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This book will enable a complete novice to construct an Horno and the instructions for baking various Old World Breads makes the purchase a wise one just based on that aspect alone. As soon as the sub-zero temperatures and the snow disappear here in the "Frozen White North", I will begin mine.

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