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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Book, November 1, 2007
I've had this book for awhile now and I really like this book. Just tried the English Muffins turned out Great and I had never made them before. I like the way the book is written and lots of pictures. I find pictures a big plus when baking. Just sorry I didn't start using the book sooner. I would recommend this book if you have a bread machine. Lots of wonderful recipes.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Stuck between two and three stars..., February 15, 2008
I ordered this book and the Betty Crocker Best Bread Machine Cookbook at the same time. I was disappointed with this one but love Betty's.
The description of this book does not mention anywhere what size loaves these recipes produce. FYI, every one makes a 2 pound loaf. I wish I had known that as my bread maker only makes 1 or 1 1/2 pound loaves. I suppose conversion is possible but bread is so finicky, I hate to even try.
Second, a number of the recipes call for ingredients that I can't find at my supermarket. I live in a city of 600,000+ so I would think that maybe these are ingredients that many people would have difficulty locating. For instance, recipes call for: sunflower oil (which may be readily available in other areas but I could not find it), malted brown bread flour with a name-brand reference (advertising anyone?), country grain, malt extract, gluten-free white flour (maybe at a health food store?), buckwheat flour, fresh pesto sauce (but no recipe to make it so I guess they mean freshly store-bought pre-packaged non-fresh pesto), soya flour, carrot juice (which you could make in your juicer but I could not find in the store), spelt flour, potato flour, no-soak dried figs, greek honey, gram flour, mashed parsnips, rice flour, vanilla sugar, saffron strands (which we all know is the very most expensive spice on the planet, recipe calls for a "generous pinch"), soft-grain white flour, and more...
The recipes have lovely pictures and if you have access to a health food store nearby or keep things like this on-hand, this book would be an excellent choice for you. However, this is not a book for a beginner bread machine enthusiast like me, and I don't see myself using it much.
To its credit, the book does include bread recipes as well as dough recipes, a chapter dedicated to serving instructions, and a section on accompaniments. Also, it is spiral bound so it lays flat, which is always nice and only has one recipe per page for the most part, which is also very nice.
So, if you have a health food store nearby and a breadmaker that will make 2lb loaves, this might just be the book for you. Otherwise, I would recommend the Betty Crocker Bread Machine Cookbook.
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