No More Bricks! Successful Whole Grain Bread Made Quick & Easy [Paperback]

Lori Viets (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 29, 2008

Add whole grains to your diet the easy way with delicious homemade bread for sandwiches, bread bowls, pizza, sweet rolls, and more. This user-friendly guide will help you: make better bread with any type of mixer or machine; choose the batch size you need without guesswork - recipes scaled for 1, 2, 3, or 6 loaves; understand all the how-to's and why-to's of whole grain bread, from grinding your own fresh flour to slicing your bread; lower your grocery bill and calorie count with bread-based meals; discover "brickbuster" secrets and which "rules" you have to un-learn, how to freeze bread or dough for freshness & convenience; gain confidence in creating your own recipes; plus fun, easy, & creative shaping variations. Also includes a Quick Start Guide so you can make bread TODAY. Even the most stubborn white-bread-only eaters have learned to love whole grains using the techniques in this book - so can you!

Product Details

• Paperback: 156 pages
• Publisher: Knead to Know Press (October 29, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 061525330X
• ISBN-13: 978-0615253305
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.2 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #76,813 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Whole Wheat Bread Baking Bible, May 21, 2010

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Uncle Jim "King's Man" (Detroit, Michigan) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: No More Bricks! Successful Whole Grain Bread Made Quick & Easy (Paperback)

I have baked whole wheat bread for decades and used everything from a Kitchen Aid Mixer, an automatic bread baker, a Bosch Mixer, and currently an Electrolux Mixer. You have to be committed enough to whole wheat bread baking to grind your own wheat and a own decent mixer. If you are willing to make this much of an investment this book will tell you in detail how to make loaves of 100% whole wheat bread that will be as soft as store bought and have more flavor than you can imagine. I often likened whole wheat bread with fresh ground flour to eating a perfect vine ripened tomato versus a winter hot house variety. The taste is so much better you will never go back to white bread, not to mention the nutritional value.

The author describes all the different types of grains, how to use them, and little baking tricks like how to actually mix and knead the dough, how to determine gluten development, how to let the dough rise, how to determine baking time, etc. She also tells the effects of adding different ingredients like milk, eggs, dough enhancer, yeasts, gluten, etc. Even after all these years of bread baking I learned new things from this book. While I really bought this for my daughter, who is now hooked on baking her own bread for a family of seven, I am going to keep this as a handy reference and buy her another one.

Happy Bread Baking!

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Changed the way I make bread forever, August 5, 2009

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Suzanne (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: No More Bricks! Successful Whole Grain Bread Made Quick & Easy (Paperback)

I bought this book hoping for some helpful tips. What I got was a totally new way to make whole wheat bread that tastes so much better than any I have ever tasted. And it is healthier and faster. I highly recommend this book!
My children who hate whole wheat bread even love this bread.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Ever!, December 5, 2009

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ShirleyB (Tennessee) - See all my reviews

This review is from: No More Bricks! Successful Whole Grain Bread Made Quick & Easy (Paperback)

This is the first review I've ever felt really compelled to do. "No More Bricks" is absolutely THE best book on baking bread. The recipes are each for making from 1-6 loaves. She also includes directions on taking her basic recipes for bread and making them into pizza, pigs in a blanket, doughnuts, and much more. Not only are we making the best whole wheat bread ever, but we are also making it six loaves at a time! The instructions are so fail proof that even my highly distractable 18 year old daughter can whip up six loaves by herself in less than two hours, from start (grinding the wheat) to finish (bread baked and out of the oven)!