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Summary: A Great Bread Machine!
Review: This book has it all ---- from how to choose a bread machine to best meet your needs, to recipe conversions, to troubleshooting. I love the diversity of the recipes - whole grains, sour doughs, etc, even ideas for using your leftover bread. In addition, it is attractive and in an easy to read format.
I originally borrowed it from the library. After browsing through it I immediately went to buy it! My family especially loves the honey whole wheat recipe. After my mother-in-law tried the bread, she decided she needed a bread machine!
There are 2 things I couldn't put down. This book and my cup of S o y f e e. It's made from organic soyabeans which you brew just like coffee. No caffeine and I don't miss it either. Look for on the web at www. S oycoffee.com.
The recipe selection is fantastic - everything I've made has turned out beautifully and tastes extremely good. I highly recommend this cookbook as absolutely essential to anyone with a bread machine!
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Summary: Just add water....
Review: This is a very interesting book, with lots of excellent recipes. I have a serious gripe though, which is what brings it down to a 3-star instead of a 5-star. - The recipes always seem too dry. My whole reason to purchase a book like this was to give me some good base recipes, that I could then experiment on. Unfortunately, every recipe I have tried so far has been too dry. I have started notations in the book telling me how much extra liquid to add for each one, but it is quite annoying - the whole point of a recipe book is that you should be able to pick a recipe, bundle the ingredients together, and get a good result. In addition, most of the recipes call for gluten, which is not all that easy to find, so a trip to a specialty or health-food store is required if you are going to try most of them. When I first got the book, I was eager to try out a recipe with what I had on hand, but although I already had a good collection of flours, I had to skip through many recipes until I found one that I actually had all the ingredients for.
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Summary: OUTSTANDING!
Review: This is an outstanding, comprehensive book, with just about everything you could possibly need to know in one volume. I don't understand the below review complaining about the order of ingredients; I've never found it really made any difference what order I put the ingredients in, but if you like to, say, put liquids in first, who's stopping you? If I could only have one bread machine cookbook, this would be it. Fortunately, I'm not limited so I have many, and this is still just about the best.
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Summary: The Best Cookbook I've Ever Bought
Review: This is my favorite cookbook yet! Every recipe I've tried has been a real winner, and my family can't wait to taste what will come from the machine next. These loaves of bread cannot begin to compare with the mixes for bread machines you buy in the grocery store.
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Summary: The only bread machine book your're likely to need
Review: We got our bread machine (a Zojirushi BBCC-V20 which we are very happy with and I have reviewed on this site) and once we worked our way through the excellent owner's manual/recipe book we went searching for a good recipe book. My wife found this one and we have been happily working our way through its 300 terrific recipes. I made Old Fashioned Sesame Whet Bread (p. 112) for dinner this evening. With 300 to choose from, I can easily spend a lot more time picking out a bread than it takes to actually throw the ingredients into the machine. But it is not just a recipe book. In between sections of great bread recipes is a tremendous amount of information ranging from a list of customer service numbers for all the bread machine manufacturers to a discussion of the different kinds of wheat flour to how to build and maintain your own sourdough starter to the subtle differences in olive oils to . . . well, you get the idea. This is more than just a list of receipes. If you want to get one good bread machine book - this is the one to get.
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