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Bread Baking book suggestions
Posted on 11/30/20 at 2:41 pm
Posted on 11/30/20 at 2:41 pm
Anyone have suggestions on good books that teach the art of baking bread from home?
Posted on 11/30/20 at 3:00 pm to 314stunna
Flour, Water, Salt, Yeast or Tartine Bread. There’s several great websites/blogs like theperfectloaf.com and kingarthurbaking.com for recipes and techniques.
Posted on 11/30/20 at 3:05 pm to 314stunna
The Bread Bible is a go-to of mine. Extremely detailed step by step directions.
Posted on 11/30/20 at 3:08 pm to 314stunna
Sure, I've got plenty for you. Your local public library likely has many of these, too. I own everything below & use them often:
--for absolute beginners who need a comprehensive overview and want a solid background in some of the science of baking: Peter Reinhard's Bread Baker's Apprentice LINK
--for someone who knows the basics, but who wants a reference/resource cookbook with many solid recipes, all written in weights & with baker's percentages to be scalable to commercial size batches (no photos) : Jeffrey Hamelman's Bread LINK Author was head baker at King Arthur Flour for many years.
--for someone who wants to learn how to make rustic, lean, European style loaves without kneading or using a mixer: Ken Forkish's Flour Water Salt Yeast LINK
--for a semi-skilled baker who wants french style recipes: Eric Kayser's Larousse Book of Bread LINK
--for someone who uses all the tools--mixer, breadmaker, food processor, etc and wants diverse, interesting recipes but not a "technique" focused cookbook: Beth Hensperger's The Bread Bible LINK
Finally, if you didn't spend your Covid Check and want to geek out on all things bread over the holidays, you can plunk down $500 on Myhrvold's Modernist Bread, complete with its stainless steel slipcase. LINK It's fascinating and gorgeous, but the recipes are needlessly complex and I don't really cook out of it. As a source of inspiration and entertainment, it's great tho.
Finally, don't overlook the websites The Perfect Loaf LINK for sourdough baking and The Fresh Loaf LINK for a community of bakers, messageboard, recipes, etc. TFL has a very active group of contributors who are more than willing to help you troubleshoot a bake, share a favorite recipe, etc. It's kind of an old-school web based community, if you're old enough to remember how messageboards once functioned.
--for absolute beginners who need a comprehensive overview and want a solid background in some of the science of baking: Peter Reinhard's Bread Baker's Apprentice LINK
--for someone who knows the basics, but who wants a reference/resource cookbook with many solid recipes, all written in weights & with baker's percentages to be scalable to commercial size batches (no photos) : Jeffrey Hamelman's Bread LINK Author was head baker at King Arthur Flour for many years.
--for someone who wants to learn how to make rustic, lean, European style loaves without kneading or using a mixer: Ken Forkish's Flour Water Salt Yeast LINK
--for a semi-skilled baker who wants french style recipes: Eric Kayser's Larousse Book of Bread LINK
--for someone who uses all the tools--mixer, breadmaker, food processor, etc and wants diverse, interesting recipes but not a "technique" focused cookbook: Beth Hensperger's The Bread Bible LINK
Finally, if you didn't spend your Covid Check and want to geek out on all things bread over the holidays, you can plunk down $500 on Myhrvold's Modernist Bread, complete with its stainless steel slipcase. LINK It's fascinating and gorgeous, but the recipes are needlessly complex and I don't really cook out of it. As a source of inspiration and entertainment, it's great tho.
Finally, don't overlook the websites The Perfect Loaf LINK for sourdough baking and The Fresh Loaf LINK for a community of bakers, messageboard, recipes, etc. TFL has a very active group of contributors who are more than willing to help you troubleshoot a bake, share a favorite recipe, etc. It's kind of an old-school web based community, if you're old enough to remember how messageboards once functioned.
Posted on 11/30/20 at 4:37 pm to 314stunna
The Enchanted Broccoli Forest is a cookbook from the Moosewood Restaurant in Ithaca, NY, and it has a step by step explanation of bread making which I found to be very helpful when I first began baking bread about 35 years ago. It's also entirely hand written and illustrated, which makes it kind of hippy-cool, kind of like the old VW repair books.
Posted on 11/30/20 at 7:46 pm to TBoy
Thanks for the responses yall
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