Customer Reviews

The Bread Machine Gourmet

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This book is a mediocre recipe book for bread. They show pictures of breads that were obviously done on the dough cycle and baked in the oven, but they don't give instructions on how to bake your breads in the oven. There are also a lot of hard to find ingredients in the recipes. I searched every health food store in town looking for the ingredients to one of the recipes, without success.

I found more useful recipes on the Fleischmann yeast website than I did in this book.

The recipes that I tried never worked out. The ratios were way off, sometimes leaving a watery mess. The altitude was not a factor, as I have needed no adjustments at 5200 feet.

I bought this book thinking that the bread recipes looked interesting and delicious. Well, they're interesting alright. Interesting messes!! Did this author actually test ANY of these recipes? The liquid to dry proportionas are all off. Don't waste any time or expense on this book.

This book has a nice variety of recipes, and they generally work. And that is quite a lot to say if you live at 6,500 feet, and have had bread dough take over your kitchen in the past. My mother really likes the glossary of ingrediants, but she likes strange things. My mother has a particular reason to like the book since she has had raspberry bread dough take over her kitchen in the past. Scary.

First the appearance - illustrations are drawings made by the author. If you don't cook, pages would be beautiful framed for a kitchen or restaurant.

If you do bake, the recipes are written like a formula. Ingredients in one long list down left page, quantities in two lists for different size loaves. Right page is assembly instructions. One recipe per open page, - if you have ever lost your place on a page with several recipes - you will appreciate this.

Both basic and unusual combinations and ingredients - I discovered popcorn flour.

You will need a bread machine.

Not a rare book but seldom parted with.

I do not recommend this bread machine cookbook. The recipes are interesting but almost entirely whole wheat based. The book does not contain a standard white loaf recipe.

Also, the yeast and water ratios are way off - too much of each called for in each recipe. The result is a sunken, solid loaf. I am able to utilize this book only by comparison with other recipes and adjusting the water / yeast / flour ratios.

This is one of my favorite cookbooks. I've had it for years. I love making bread by hand, but sometimes there just isn't time, or it's too hot to turn on the oven, and then the bread machine comes to the rescue. The only trouble is, a lot of bread machine cookbooks have the same five recipes for the actual machine and then expect you to turn on the oven.

Not this one! It actually uses the machine for the whole cycle, and it has has lots of intriguing and tasty recipes in it. Favorites include: Blackstrap Bread, Black Bean and Raisin Bread, Brown Rice Bread, Banana Maple Bread, and Chocolate Chip and Nut Bread.