Customer Reviews

Bread

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This is the first bread book I owned and the one that started a baking frenzy that still goes on! It's a beautiful book with incredible recipes. The challah is outstanding, the banana nut muffins are SOOOO good!, the orange date cake delicious, the brioche ease and delicious, the gruyere pullman loaf is amazing... I can go on and on. The only minus is the lack of sourdough breads. A book definitely worth having.

I have tried over a dozen of the recipes and they have all turned out fantastic! Sometimes I have substituted ingredients and still produced excellent bread. Favorite recipes include: yogurt french bread, Taos pumpkin bread, country bread with golden raisins and walnuts, and more!

I bought this book in college back in 1988. A budding baker and cook, Beth inspired me to knead my arms out. Bread machines are great but nothing connects you to the bread more than hand kneading it. The magic I derived from watching a rising loaf motivated me to become a professional brewer!!

Beth's recipes are wonderful and she guides even the novice quickly through producing top notch loaves. Favorites including the Whole Wheat Basil Bread, the Olive Baguettes and the Seeded Dill Rye. Her muffin recipes are also fabulous--I've made them all. I'm especially fond of the Wild Rice and Shiitake Mushroom muffins and the Fresh Lemon muffins.

After all these years, I think I may go buy another book on bread--one of Beth's new ones!!

I also bought this book in college, and now 12 years later, it is my bread bible. Hensperger's instructions are simple and the breads--no matter what kind--always are delicious. Always. I've tried other bread cookbooks, but always come back to this one.

I've got a number of bread books and although I've only made a couple of the recipes, I think this book will become one of two or three favorites. Nice pictures and the background info on the various breads is interesting. The print is large enough to read without glasses - something increasingly important to me. A well made and bound book that will probably have olive oil and butter stains before too long.

I love this book and its recipe for banana bread is absolutely delicious. Also, it's the first book I've seen with a recipe for prune bread. I personally love prunes and they're so healthy and moist! It made for a yummy bread, not too sweet, dense and moist, great with coffee.

Definitely one of the better cookbooks I have purchased. I have tried over half of the recipes and they came out successfully. I am a novice bread-maker, so this is definitely a great accomplishment for me! My family thanks the authors for helping their mama bake great bread!

This book offers a great variety of bread recipes. When I first browsed through it I wanted to make at least half of them right away because they sounded really good. I make bread regularly and the directions in each recipe is very detailed and accurate. You're guaranteed success every time if you just follow the directions. I highly recommend this book.

I have several Williams Sonoma cook books and love them all. This one is just as great. Well written recipes that are workable for both the expert or novice cook. A nice variety of recipes, this isn't a one note collection. There are breads for the oven, the grill, and even steamed bread. I really appreciate the side comments included with every recipe. Whether it highlights an unusual ingredient or gives details on a method. I highly recommend this book.

The general information on bread making and an explanation of the differences in flour was extremely helpful. We have made several of the breads from the book and they were wonderful. The book was recommended to us by our brother in law because he thinks so highly of it. You can't go wrong for the price!
Terry
Rochester NY