Product Description

This is a book with simple instructions, easy to follow, that will help the lovers of good European breads to experience the real flavor and enjoyment of baking the old fashioned way in an adobe and brick oven built in their own back yards.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #69451 in Books
• Published on: 2002-09-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 116 pages

About the Author
Charel Scheele was born into a Dutch family of bakers and learned the craft not only by practice at his family bakeries but also by attending and graduating from two different European schools for professional bakers. He also was the recipient of many awards for his baked goods.

Customer Reviews

Great recipes and easy to follow
Just received the book today, and read through it. The book is quite easy to read. I've been looking at several clay and masonry books, and really like this one. It even gives directions on building an adobe oven, which I really would like to do (but, in the middle of winter, in Wisconsin, that isn't going to happen). I'm planning on making it a school project with my homeschooled daughters this next summer. I was hoping there would be a few more pictures on showing how to put the oven together, but, I think I can figure it out. The recipes really have got my attention and can't wait to try them out, too.

Excellent in it's Simplicity
This book will enable a complete novice to construct an Horno and the instructions for baking various Old World Breads makes the purchase a wise one just based on that aspect alone. As soon as the sub-zero temperatures and the snow disappear here in the "Frozen White North", I will begin mine.

From Canada

You can do a little better
This is not a bad book. It provides a simple design for building an adobe oven. That said, I think a far better purchase is "Build Your Own Earth Oven". Much more detailed, and much more creative.