Bread Machine Baking for All Seasons: Delightful Recipes for Year-Round Pleasure [Paperback]

Connie Merydith (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 20, 1996

There is a time for everything—a time for laughing, a time for crying, a time for working and a time for baking bread. In fact, there are four times for baking bread: Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall.

In her new book, Bread Machine Baking for All Seasons, author Connie Merydith offers seasonal recipes that will keep bread machines plugged in and kneading year-round. Bread machine bakers will learn that just as moods change with the seasons, so too should bread recipes.

In tune with nature, recipes include:

WINTER
• Cashew-Date Bread resembling a fruit cake in texture and moistness
• Chile-Cheese Bread perfect with chile or stew

SPRING
• Light, golden-colored Honey-Yogurt Bread for sandwiches
• Sourdough Bagels, essential for picnics

SUMMER
• Orange Spiral Rolls with melon for a quick, light breakfast
• Pita Bread filled with garden delicacies

AUTUMN
• Pumpkin Bread with its spice-laden flavor and aroma of Thanksgiving
• Soft Breadsticks and Cheddar-Cumin Rolls for Monday Night Football fans

Bread Machine Baking for All Seasons offers a chapter full of hints for baking with bread machines and a comprehensive index at the end.

About the Author

Connie Merydith has been baking with a bread machine for her family of six for the last four years, as well as catering banquets and special occasions. Connie and her family live in Foresthill, California.

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There is a time for everything—a time for laughing, a time for crying, a time for working and a time for baking bread. In fact, there are four times for baking bread: Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall.

In her new book, Bread Machine Baking for All Seasons, author Connie Merydith offers seasonal recipes that will keep bread machines plugged in and kneading year-round. Bread machine bakers will learn that just as moods change with the seasons, so too should bread recipes.

In tune with nature, recipes include:

WINTER
• Cashew-Date Bread resembling a fruit cake in texture and moistness
• Chile-Cheese Bread perfect with chile or stew

SPRING
• Light, golden-colored Honey-Yogurt Bread for sandwiches
• Sourdough Bagels, essential for picnics

SUMMER
• Orange Spiral Rolls with melon for a quick, light breakfast
• Pita Bread filled with garden delicacies

AUTUMN
• Pumpkin Bread with its spice-laden flavor and aroma of Thanksgiving
• Soft Breadsticks and Cheddar-Cumin Rolls for Monday Night Football fans

Bread Machine Baking for All Seasons offers a chapter full of hints for baking with bread machines and a comprehensive index at the end.

About the Author

Connie Merydith has been baking with a bread machine for her family of six for the last four years, as well as catering banquets and special occasions. Connie and her family live in Foresthill, California.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Prima Lifestyles (November 20, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761507949
• ISBN-13: 978-0761507949
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,039,359 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you own a Bread Machine, you need this book, May 10, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Bread Machine Baking for All Seasons: Delightful Recipes for Year-Round Pleasure (Paperback)

I am going to make this short and sweet. Kind of like the bread. I hate to cook. I love to eat. We have had a bread machine for a year and hardly used it. The bread did not come out right or it took too many ingredients we did not have. I happened to see this book (very eye catching), read the first recipe. It looked easy and there was no magic to it. It used ingredients we already have. The machine has not been back in the cupboard since. The author makes it easy to read, fun, and you get good bread. This book is a must for anyone with a bread machine that is getting dusty. It also has a large and interesting variety of recipes.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Ideas, April 14, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Bread Machine Baking for All Seasons: Delightful Recipes for Year-Round Pleasure (Paperback)

I bought this book based solely on the other reviews I read here, and I'm awfully glad I did. Though the book might not be for bread machine novices (there's hardly any information about the machines themselves, or advice on how to make sure your breads come out well), the recipe ideas are creative and tasty. The black olive bread is especially wonderful, and I'm looking forward to trying more.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars terrific book, November 28, 2001

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This review is from: Bread Machine Baking for All Seasons: Delightful Recipes for Year-Round Pleasure (Paperback)

I am completely new to the world of bread machine baking so, of course, I ran to Amazon and bought several books of recipes. This book by Connie Merydith is, however, far and away my favorite and the one I turn to the most. The book is beautifully laid-out with clear, easy-to-read type and nice small illustrations of bread at the bottom of most pages. The recipes are arranged by season with hearty wheat, nut and spice breads made with molasses, rolled oats and dried fruits for fall and winter, and lighter breads with honey, yogurt, fresh fruit and vegetables for spring and summer. The author also includes recipes for non-loaf breads such as bagels, breakfast and dinner rolls, pita bread, pizza dough, bread sticks, focaccia, and bread rings. I used this book to make an assortment of rolls for Thanksgiving last week: oatmeal-molasses, peppery parmesan, orange spiral, wheat spice and rich dinner rolls (the bread recipes can all be made into rolls -- just stop your bread-maker before it begins to bake). There are also instructions for making and using a sourdough starter and a very complete index. If you're only going to buy one bread machine cookbook, then this is the one to get.