Harvard Common Press The Bread Lover's Machine Cookbook: A Master Baker's 300 Favorite Recipes for Perfect-Every-Time Bread-From Every Kind of

Not a very good book. So many recipes but repeated messages. These high level recipe with a short descriptions can be found anywhere on the internet. I hate the most is these useless repeating of the words in every pages. It's just to get the book thicker, nothing else.

I chose this cookbook over several others that looked interesting and I’m so glad that I bought this one! Lots of interesting recipes and general information about bread making in my new bread maker. I bought a machine that makes only 1 lb. loaves, however the recipes in the book can be cut in half to accommodate my machine. Love the book!

Easy to understand, easy to make. I wish though that it has photos.

Ik heb reeds een paar recepten uitgeprobeerd en ben zeer aangenaam verrast door het resultaat.Alle recepten zijn wel met cups ipv met grammen geschreven dus ik heb het wel even moeten aanpassen. Los daarvan is het een Broodbijbel

I am a relative newbie to the whole bread machine thing, but I LOVE LOVE LOVE this book. The recipes I have tried have all turned out perfectly, first time, with no fiddling, repeated tries. The processes and equipment are explained in detail and in such a way that I can study what I need, when I need it. This book made me NOT regret my machine purchase. Prior to buying this book, I was beginning to.If there is one con in my opinion, it is the print font of the recipes. The fractions are really hard to read, as well as being very important to the recipe in progress. I have to make sure I have the book in a very well lit area, and get really close to it to be sure. I have been making a lot of hand-written notes in the book concerning these fractions. I've learned to do this beforehand so I minimize flour-hand handling of my book. I sometimes go to my printer and copy the recipe section on 200% instead of all that. It makes the book thicker and prone to page-fallout, but.... Depends on my mood. I hate making a mistake just because of a mis-read. I may eventually cut out those big prints and tape them down on one side.But the recipes are fantastic, so they are worth the effort. I have several cookbooks that are supposedly just for bread machines. I did NOT buy a cheap machine, and it works fine, so all the recipes, correct ingredients, measured correctly and settings correct, should turn out well - that's the whole point of the machine right? This is the only book I've used so far, of the several I've tried, that has recipes that work perfectly every time.To be honest, I'm still in the "basic" section of the book. I haven't tried all the -dough-prep and then remove for baking- kind of things. Yet. Maybe never. Depends on my mood, again. The main reason I bought a machine was mostly to AVOID the bread prep kitchen mess. It's just me here now, so I don't need a whole lot of bread. The bread machine loaves are the perfect size, and I only make one at a time with minimal mess. The retiree's POV... Every hand-knead recipe I have ever used made at least two loaves. Not all bread freezes well, and besides - I like fresh better! Bottom line - if I was allowed to keep only one bread book out of my massive cookbook library, it would be this one.And to those who object to the additional gluten in the recipes, I have a statement and a question. First, gluten is not poison. It has been in our diet for centuries, we've just recently narrowed it from a general wheat allergy to gluten. That's the statement. Now the question: Do you so vociferously omit nuts, dairy, and/or strawberries, etc. from your diet because a small percentage of humanity is allergic to them? That seems to be the general trend. Just because a very small percentage has a problem, we ALL have to adjust? That's like saying my neighbor's kid has asthma, so I need a steroid inhaler.Anyway, I was impressed enough with this book and the way it is constructed, that I went and bought some slightly used copies of her rice cooker and pressure cooker cookbooks, too.

This was a bit complicated purchase as I didn’t receive the original parcel. But as soon as I contacted the seller she organized the second delivery without any delays. Things happened but lady was extremely helpful. No I’m enjoying my book !!!!!