Cookies are one of the most versatile of desserts--great for lunch boxes, ideal as a gift, perfect for late-night snacking. Try each of the scrumptious recipes collected here, for such tasty offerings as Spice Bars, Lace Cookies, Raspberry Shortcakes, Fudge Pecan Fingers, and White Chocolate and Macadamia Nut Crumbles. Full-color photos.
When you make your own bread, you can also make healthy choices by controlling fats, salt, sugar, and adding grains and nutritious fruits to the dough. You can also shape the dough into rolls, buns, braided or round loaves.
This collection of 100 simple and enticing bread machine recipes offers a delectable array of breads, from classic white loaves to healthy flax bread to elegant, special-occasion Pannetone and everything in between.
With a few simple steps, and the push of a button, you can fill your house with the glorious aromas of:
Along with the recipes, Holmes provides practical tips, information on ingredients, techniques, and problem-solving answers to assist you in your quest for perfect bread.
If you bake, but making bread intimidates you, Beth Hensperger's Bread Made Easy is the perfect choice for expanding your skills. It gives all the basics a beginner needs about technique, equipment, and ingredients, in the clearest, most reassuring way.
Hensperger certainly knows about baking bread--this is her eighth book on the subject. This time, she starts with "Baking School," a comprehensive section covering what pans to use, why bottled water is best, and how to use various kinds of yeast. She describes 12 types of wheat flour as well as flour made from 8 other grains. Then Hensperger explains proper techniques for kneading, rising, and forming loaves, including more than 65 color photos. The eight master recipes start beginners off making a simple unkneaded Batter Bread, then go on to progressively more demanding white bread, egg doughs, whole wheat bread, flatbread, rustic country loaves, and yeasted coffee cakes. Each recipe is broken into five key steps, including cooling and storage. To encourage you, Hensperger gives variations on each master recipe, suggesting you make them all before moving on to the next type of bread. Progressing from challah to a cinnamon-sugar-filled egg-dough spiral loaf, hamburger buns, elegantly twisted dinner rolls, and a flat, foccacia-like Stuffed Onion Pretzel topped with poppy seeds makes this a rewarding exercise. Anyone who bakes will appreciate the clear, easy-to-use format of this book, and find it a reasonably complete and compact reference work as well as a source for seemingly foolproof recipes. --Dana Jacobi
Over 125 gluten-free recipes that taste just like-or even better than-their wheat counterparts. Plus helpful baking tips for creating light-textured breakfast favorites, muffins and quick breads, yeast breads, cookies, cakes, and pies. This book makes living a gluten-free life simple, affordable, and delicious! NEW UPDATED EDITION.
