The Best Bread Machine Cookbook Ever

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Summary: a southern bread lover
Review: All bread machines are not created equal, and perhaps that is the reason for the variance in star-quality in the reviews for this book.

I have a difficult machine--an upright that does not handle whole grain recipes very well. This book saved the day! I was about to give up on making wholesome, whole-grain breads when a friend passed this on to me. I have not used another book since. I've also found that the more unusual and adventurous recipes the book offers, as well as the more traditional recipes, can easily be tweaked to fit with the ingredients I have on hand or that suit the tastes of my family.

If you have daring taste buds and want to learn the ins and outs of your bread machine, this book is for you. I would recommend it to anyone!

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Summary: The BEST EVER BreadMachine Cookbook
Review: I have had this book for nearly eight years and I keep going back to it. No matter how many other books I get THIS IS THE ONE I USE. When my sister got her bread machine I told her she HAD to have this book. The recipes are well written, the varity is incredible, the suggestion for use are true to the bread type and the ingredients are easily found in your regular grocey store. Yet the book covers a wide varity of breads and sweet dough. I LOVE IT.

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Summary: Error in ingredient amounts
Review: I tried the Hot Cross bun recipe. Following the amounts listed in the recipe yielded a dough with the consistency of a batter. Comparing the amount of liquid in this recipe to other hot cross bun recipes showed that there was considerably too little flour or way too much liquid in this recipe. I added about 9 T. extra of flour and the batter was still too wet. I also tried the brioche recipe and it was also much too wet. Very disappointed in either the recipe tester or the editor.

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Summary: Error in ingredient amounts
Review: The recipes include all kind of mistakes on ingredient amounts and how-to's. I was very dissapointed. The recipes I've tried came out OK only because I used the (much maligned) booklet that came with the machine to compare and correct the amount of ingredients, and my own culinary expertise to switch ingredients as needed.

Not much use for another unreliable and poorly written cookbook on my bookshelf.

Shame on the editor also. Very poor job. The arrangement of the recipes does not make a lot of sense, and some how-to's to prepare ingredients are hard to find.

And then the breads themselves: why is "Whole Wheat Coffee Cake" in the "Deli and Basic Sandwich Breads" section, and not in the "Whole Grain, Multi-Grain, and Salt-Free Breads" section, or the "Holiday, Celebration, and Gift Breads" for that matter?

To say the least it is very confusing, since the whole book is arranged very poorly. I would have expected "The Best Bread Machine Cookbook Ever" to at least give some exchange of ingredients.

For example: she uses dry milk powder in many of the recipes; How about the people that for different reasons don't want milk in their bread? Hey, we are not talking flour here, bread doesn't HAVE to have milk in it.

I can go on and on since I'm annoyed at the book and upset at the writer and publisher for wasting my time and money. I'll feel better after I give it away to charity...but then again, why upset even more people

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Summary: This is the bread machine book you were looking for!
Review: Those booklets shipped with bread machines may be one of the major reasons why more people don't use bread makers. If The Best Bread Machine Cookbook Ever was shipped with every bread machine, I can't imagine a house that wouldn't regularly smell like fresh baked bread.

Madge Rosenburg, a professional baker herself, took her favorite bread recipes and adapted them to the machine in a simple style that makes baking a breeze. The introduction teaches about ingredients, procedures, trouble-shooting, and bread machines (this last is rather dated), then dives into six chapters of recipes that make it a chore to figure out which favorite to bake. Best of all, there's a full chapter devoted to the machine "dough" or "manual" cycle, which teaches a variety of crusty, shaped loaves.

With the popularity of bread machines, there has been a proliferation of guides and cook books. There might even be one better than Rosenburg's out there, but I haven't found it. The Best Bread Machine Cookbook Ever just might be