Breadman's Healthy Bread (Hardcover)

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Product Description

For Every Electric Bread Machine--Foolproof Recipes For Wholesome, Naturally Delicious, Healthful Breads!

Until now, bread machine cookbooks have been full of recipes that used denatured flours, saturated fats, refined sugar, and artifical flavors. Now, at last, television's famous Breadman shows how you can use his ingeniously simple recipes to turn your bread machine into the source of life-giving, whole-grain breads that are sweetened without sugar, have almost no saturated fats, are low in calories--are 100 percent delcious!

Here are amazing simple bread machine recipes for:
Buckwheat Oat Bread
Honey, Granola, and Yogurt Bread
Sourdough Wheat Bread
Apricot Nut Bread
JalapeÑo Cornbread
Whole-Wheat Pizza Dough
Blueberry Lemon Bread
And much, much more!

You can lose weight, help lower your cholesterol, benefit from health-giving vitamins and minerals, and add essential fiber to your diet--just by eating the Breadman's scrumptious breakfast breads, hearty sandwhich loaves (topped with his special low-calorie spreads!), and phenomenal holiday and gift breads.

And each recipe is given separately for large and small loaves. No matter what size machine you have, your bread will be perfect.

About the Author

George Burnett, the Breadman, is an acclaimed natural-food lecturer and baker who has devoted his life to spreading the word about the incredible health benefits of whole grains and natural breads. He lives in Montana with his wife, Christy, and four sons: Ben, Isacc, Niel, and Matthew.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: William Morrow Cookbooks; 1 edition (November 19, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0688120253
• ISBN-13: 978-0688120252
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #264,752 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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45 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great recipes but 100 unneeded pages, December 26, 2001

By	Groovy Vegan (USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (COMMUNITY FORUM 04)

Pro's:
* The recipes work and are delicious. I especially recommend the Italian herb bread.
* There's an emphasis on whole grains with about 70% of the recipes containing no white flour, white sugar, eggs, or animal fats.
* Contains a lot of information a bread machine owner might want, such as how to care for the machine, how the machine works, how to mill and store grains, nutritional information about the various grains, all about yeast (buying, storing, measuring, etc.). Most of the bread machine info is generic and applies to other machines as well as the Breadman.
* Detailed glossary of ingredients.
* Bonus recipes for spreads, such as salsa, hummus, and jam.
* Although recipes are only for 1- or 1 ½ pound loaves, you can double the 1 pound recipe if your machine has a 2 pound capacity.

Cons:
* My biggest pet peeve: for each bread recipe, the 1 pound and 1 ½ pound variations are listed on separate pages, unlike other bread machine books which list several size variations on the same page. So if you want orange walnut bread, for example, the 1½ pound recipe is on page 230, and the 1 pound variation is on page 231. I counted 97 extra pages that didn't need to be in the book, had both sets of measurements been on the same page. This amounts to purchasing 34% extra pages, inflating the price and wasting trees.
* Although the book emphasizes how healthy it is to eat whole grain breads, there is no nutritional information for any of the recipes-not even fat grams or calories per serving.
* Every bread recipe contains powdered milk or whey powder. Many people don't consume dairy products, yet there's no mention of how to substitute for it or if it's okay to leave it out entirely. (It is.) You can also leave out the liquid lecithin, a sticky ingredient that's hard to get off your hands, without adversely affecting the results.
* Setting and cycle information is provided for over a dozen models of bread machines-all state of the art in 1992 when the book was written. The bread machine operator with a more recent machine should easily be able to figure out the appropriate machine setting for any given bread. But the tally of unneeded pages is now 100, (or 104 if like many bread machine operators you never intend on making bread by hand, so will not need chapter 7).

Despite the cons, I still recommend the book for the great recipes and the comprehensive bread machine and ingredient education.

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Best Bread Machine Recipe Book for Whole Grain Breads, May 25, 2000

By	Eric Weiss - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

After getting a new bread machine, I looked and looked for bread machine recipe books that had a decent number of whole-grain flour recipes (we grind our own flour) - and my search was disappointing until I came across this book. Lots of whole-grain bread recipes (plus "transition" recipes for those just learning to like the heartier, healthier flavor of whole grain bread). If you can find a bread machine recipe book with more whole-grain bread recipes (either numerically or proportionately) than this one, then let me know. From my search, this is the one to get. And ... if you haven't made the switch from "white" bread to whole grain, then you really, really need this book. Even my wife now prefers WW bread to white, and that is a change for her.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, healthful recipes!, July 16, 2001

By A Customer

This is a fabulous book, especially for those are tired of the white flour, white sugar bread machine recipes that are so ubiquitous. I have always wanted to use my bread machine to make healthy, whole grain breads, but such recipes have always been few and far between in my experience. Not so with this book! George provides more than 100 recipes for wholesome breads, each given separately in 1-1/2 pound and 1-pound loaf versions. A full 70 percent of these recipes use absolutely no white flour, while the other 30 percent use a combination of whole grain and white flours for those readers not accustomed to the denser, full-bodied flavor of whole grain breads. All of the recipes use only the minimum amount of sweetener (honey and molasses -- no refined sugar at all!) and no shortening or hydrogenated oils. The breads are all developed to work with Breadman-brand bread machines, but there is a table at the beginning of the book listing all the other different types of bread machines along with any modifications you would need to accomodate these recipes. I've made two different recipes from the book already, and the results were wonderful!

My favorite part of the book, though, is all the great information before and after the recipes section. George describes his philosophy for a healthful lifestyle, as well as background information on topics such as the different parts of a wheat kernel and other types of grains and legumes that can be used in breads. The back of the book has a complete glossary of ingredients that are used in the book, in case you don't know what liquid lecithin is or where to find powdered whey (questions that I had initially). I had fun and learned a lot just reading the glossary! Overall, this is an excellent book that will get much use in our house.