Bake Your Own Bread: Completely Revised and Expanded

By Alberto Márquez and Clara I. Grima

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048159083
• ISBN13: 9789048159086
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Still my best bread book ever!

Back in the late 1970's I discovered this book and started making homemade bread for my family. Sharing the bread with friends and neighbors prompted some of them to ask for lessons in bread making. This led to offering bread classes in my home, which in later years led to demonstrations at a gourmet kitchen store, programs for civic groups, bread "camp" for online forum friends, and most recently, selling my homemade breads...

Finally, A Basic and Delicious 100% Whole Wheat Bread

I have the 1972 copyright of this wonderful book, yet it is so up to date. I have only ventured with the 100% Whole Wheat Bread recipe, but it's exactly what I was looking for. I searched far and wide for a Whole Wheat Bread recipe that did not use white flour, all purpose flour, eggs, milk, sugar etc. This recipe uses honey as a sweetener, and the other ingredients are: WHOLE WHEAT flour, water, yeast and salt. It's so...

Excellent How-To book with sense of humor.

The original version of this book was my first bread baking bible in the 70's. It was especially good for someone without much experience with yeast, whole wheat flour, and kneading. I remember that the recipe for challah described the dough as smooth as a "baby's butt." This was exactly the consistency of that dough when I tried my hand at challah for the first time which is why I have always trusted this book. The...