 | 100 Loaves: Breadmaking As Meditation by Carol Pentleton
Buy new: $18.99 One hundred excellent recipes from many traditions around the world. The recipes are preceded by a straightforward guide to baking bread, and each recipe includes a quote - food for thought as well as the stomache!
This is a guide to breadmaking as meditation, but will appeal even to those without any interest in the spiritual aspect. Great illustrations, too!
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 | The Bread Baker's Apprentice: Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread by Peter Reinhart
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $21.84 If you've ever wanted to bake bread, here is an excellent guide to baking the real deal. If you'd like to master the art of creating artisan breads - you know, the expensive, yummy ones in the market - this is a good place to start. The author includes his discovery of "pain à l'ancienne", a cold-fermented French loaf, that's well worth a try.
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 | The Gluten-Free Gourmet Bakes Bread: More Than 200 Wheat-Free Recipes by Bette Hagman
Buy new: $12.92 / Used from: $8.81 It's tough to bake a tender loaf when gluten is out of the picture! And yet this book manages more than 200 loaves without glutn.
Some of the ingreients can be a little pricey and hard to fine, but the result is certainly worth it for bakers - and eaters! - who need bread for a gluten-free diet.
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 | The Bread Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $18.95 Rose Levy Beranbaum writes in detail about the "why" of baking bread, as well as the "What" and "how" of her recipes.
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 | Heirloom Baking with the Brass Sisters: More than 100 Years of Recipes Discovered from Family Cookbooks, Original Journals, Scraps of Paper, and Grandmothers Kitchen by Marilynn Brass
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $13.45 Heirloom recipes have been brought up to date in this well-designed book. It's not really for the beginning bread baker, but the variety of recipes and techniques will keep experienced bakers coming back for more.
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