Easy Bread Machine Baking: More than 100 new recipes for sweet and savoury loaves and shaped breads [Paperback]

Shirley Ann Holmes (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 2, 2000

When you make your own bread, you can also make healthy choices by controlling fats, salt, sugar, and adding grains and nutritious fruits to the dough. You can also shape the dough into rolls, buns, braided or round loaves.

This collection of 100 simple and enticing bread machine recipes offers a delectable array of breads, from classic white loaves to healthy flax bread to elegant, special-occasion Pannetone and everything in between.

With a few simple steps, and the push of a button, you can fill your house with the glorious aromas of:

• East Coast Brown Bread
• Hovis Bread
• Ancient Grain, Seed, and Fruit Loaf
• Challah
• Pane Alle Oliva
• Blueberry Swirl Sour-cream Bread
• Pizzas and flatbreads

Along with the recipes, Holmes provides practical tips, information on ingredients, techniques, and problem-solving answers to assist you in your quest for perfect bread.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Every recipe is so sensibly written... you'll find that even your first efforts will turn out beautifully. (Linda Turk Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal 20031105)

About the Author

Shirley Ann Holmes is a professional home economist, food stylist and consumer consultant. She developed bread recipes for 5 years with a major bread machine manufacturer and for 10 years with a major yeast manufacturer.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Firefly Books (September 2, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1552094936
• ISBN-13: 978-1552094938
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #675,864 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!!!, July 31, 2008

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Katie Rose (Orlando, Fl United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Easy Bread Machine Baking: More than 100 new recipes for sweet and savoury loaves and shaped breads (Paperback)

I found this book to be easy to read and use. Yes, sometimes it does call for different ingredients, which make for a different taste. That's one thing that makes it special. It is not just the usual rehashed recipes for the same old breads. The breads, and the absolutely BEST sticky buns I have ever tasted, turn out beautiful to look at and delicious to eat. I have been using breadmachines for at least 10 years and have numerous books. This is one of my favorites.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars More difficult that title would imply, January 11, 2007

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George D. Deluca "George" (Burlington, Ontario) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Easy Bread Machine Baking: More than 100 new recipes for sweet and savoury loaves and shaped breads (Paperback)

I haven't tried a lot of the recipes yet, and here's the problem. Most of the recipes require ingredients that a normal kitchen doesn't have. I make bread regularly and I do have most of the common stuff, but it seemed whenever I looked at a recipe it wanted stuff I would have to go shop for. Like soy flour, minced jalapeno peppers, barley flakes, natural bakers bran, fine semolina flour, powdered saffron, millet, etc.
Yes, they're easy, but what bread machine recipe isn't?

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad...., March 23, 2005

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Catalina S. Castells "book addict" (New Jersey, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Easy Bread Machine Baking: More than 100 new recipes for sweet and savoury loaves and shaped breads (Paperback)

...but watch for missing ingredients! For example, the cottage cheese bread recipe is missing the sugar. Without it, the bread doesn't rise well. Also, the flavors could be stronger.