Customer Reviews

The Best Bread Machine Cookbook Ever: Ethnic Breads

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4 star:		(2)
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1 star:		(3)

 

 

This book is a tremendous joy to have and use. Since I purchased it I have made a different recipe each week and brought the bread to work to share with my colleagues. If I miss a week they remind me that they are waiting for my "treat". Easy to find ingredients and simple instructions make these recipes a breeze for even the most novice of bakers. The helpful hints in the front of the book are a nice touch! I have not made a loaf that was not spectacular.

I have had this book for nearly eight years and I keep going back to it. No matter how many other books I get THIS IS THE ONE I USE. When my sister got her bread machine I told her she HAD to have this book. The recipes are well written, the varity is incredible, the suggestion for use are true to the bread type and the ingredients are easily found in your regular grocey store. Yet the book covers a wide varity of breads and sweet dough. I LOVE IT.

I had high anxiety about ordering this book after reading some of the online reviews, but fortunately, every experience I've had with this cookbook has been fabulous. Every recipe turns out a moist, delicious loaf. The recipes that came with my bread machine made much drier bread that went stale quickly. Not so with these recipes. This book calls for ingredients not normally on my shelf, but the results are well worth it. This is fast becoming my favorite cookbook.

Many bread machine recipes produce very light, too fluffy (Wonder Bread like) breads. This book tells you how to make really interesting, well textured breads easily in your machine. Even my son (who is very committed to white bread) likes the semolina sesame & whole wheat granola varieties.While the book contains some recipes that seem too complicated (you need to scald milk first) or too sweet (lemonade bread), there are many easy & tasty varieties.

The recipes include all kind of mistakes on ingredient amounts and how-to's. I was very dissapointed. The recipes I've tried came out OK only because I used the (much maligned) booklet that came with the machine to compare and correct the amount of ingredients, and my own culinary expertise to switch ingredients as needed.

Not much use for another unreliable and poorly written cookbook on my bookshelf.

Shame on the editor also. Very poor job. The arrangement of the recipes does not make a lot of sense, and some how-to's to prepare ingredients are hard to find.

And then the breads themselves: why is "Whole Wheat Coffee Cake" in the "Deli and Basic Sandwich Breads" section, and not in the "Whole Grain, Multi-Grain, and Salt-Free Breads" section, or the "Holiday, Celebration, and Gift Breads" for that matter?

To say the least it is very confusing, since the whole book is arranged very poorly. I would have expected "The Best Bread Machine Cookbook Ever" to at least give some exchange of ingredients.

For example: she uses dry milk powder in many of the recipes; How about the people that for different reasons don't want milk in their bread? Hey, we are not talking flour here, bread doesn't HAVE to have milk in it.

I can go on and on since I'm annoyed at the book and upset at the writer and publisher for wasting my time and money. I'll feel better after I give it away to charity...but then again, why upset even more people

This is a book that will allow you to satisfy every taste craving. It includes recipes for your basic bread, flavored breads, and also various grain breads for the person interested in a healthier diet. I believe that I will be just as excited about this book years from now because I am always discovering a new bread to make.

All bread machines are not created equal, and perhaps that is the reason for the variance in star-quality in the reviews for this book.

I have a difficult machine--an upright that does not handle whole grain recipes very well. This book saved the day! I was about to give up on making wholesome, whole-grain breads when a friend passed this on to me. I have not used another book since. I've also found that the more unusual and adventurous recipes the book offers, as well as the more traditional recipes, can easily be tweaked to fit with the ingredients I have on hand or that suit the tastes of my family.

If you have daring taste buds and want to learn the ins and outs of your bread machine, this book is for you. I would recommend it to anyone!

When I bought this book, I was so excited to try all the yummy-sounding recipes. Hah! Most of the breads from this book have failed miserably. Sometimes the dough is too wet, sometimes it doesn't rise, sometimes it rises too much... I have several other bread machine cookbooks which work consistently, so I know it is the recipes and not my machine or my technique. Its a pity - some of the recipes sound wonderful, if only they would work. Don't waste your money on this one.

I have had tremendous success with this book and the other ones in the series. I don't know if the recipes are just well-suited to my National/Panasonic machine or what, but I have NEVER had a failed recipe in the batch. Granted, the author always suggests to add ingredients in the order that is recommended by your machine, so I suppose a good working knowledge of your bread machine is a must. I highly recommend this book.

Those booklets shipped with bread machines may be one of the major reasons why more people don't use bread makers. If The Best Bread Machine Cookbook Ever was shipped with every bread machine, I can't imagine a house that wouldn't regularly smell like fresh baked bread.

Madge Rosenburg, a professional baker herself, took her favorite bread recipes and adapted them to the machine in a simple style that makes baking a breeze. The introduction teaches about ingredients, procedures, trouble-shooting, and bread machines (this last is rather dated), then dives into six chapters of recipes that make it a chore to figure out which favorite to bake. Best of all, there's a full chapter devoted to the machine "dough" or "manual" cycle, which teaches a variety of crusty, shaped loaves.

With the popularity of bread machines, there has been a proliferation of guides and cook books. There might even be one better than Rosenburg's out there, but I haven't found it. The Best Bread Machine Cookbook Ever just might be