The Bread Book: The Definitive Guide to Making Bread by Hand or Machine - Books (Sara Lewis, Paperback)

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Customer Reviews of The Bread Book: The Definitive Guide to Making Bread by Hand or Machine

JayBe
Midlands, UK
2nd August 2008

Speciality Breads
An attractive book with lovely pictures and a variety of sweet and savoury breads. However I was hoping for a choice of good basic breads but there is only one for wholemeal bread and it's for a rapid light wholemeal loaf. i.e. lots of yeast and almost half white flour.
If you've already got good basic recipies and looking for different breads for a change then you'll probably like this book.

Patsy Poo
Ossett, West Yorkshire, UK
16th June 2008

A really good buy
I only started making bread a few weeks ago. I have got a breadmaker but I do a lot by hand as well and this book caters for both methods.
Another very good thing is the fact that you can choose how big a loaf you want to make (500g, 750g or 1kg) and the ingredient quantities are already adjusted for you!
An awesome book, a great investment and a fantastic incentive to get you into making bread - it definitely worked on me!

Louise Cox
Cleveland, UK.
10th June 2008

Fantastic.
I bought this book about a year ago and tried several of the recipes by hand as i did not have a breadmaker. The recipes are easy to follow and the techniques on shaping the different breads are great. All of the breads turned out lovely and tasty. I have since got a breadmaker and am pleased to say the recipes work just as well by either hand or machine. I think the book is also very well laid out with different sections covering all types of bread.

Ness
Somerset, UK
2nd July 2007

The only book you need!
A really good selection of recipes, from the everyday to the really imaginative, there is no bread style I can think of that isn't covered by this fabulously illustrated and clearly set out book. If you have a breadmaker, buy it - you can't go wrong! If you're adventurous enough to make bread by hand, I'm sure you'll love it too.

JH.Evans-Jones
Bodmin, Cornwall United Kingdom
13th September 2004

Best Bread Book Ever
This is the best bread making book I have ever had. The book gives the methods for both the bread maker machine and the hand baking for each recipe. Unusually in a bread book - both methods work! I can particularly recommend the recipe for the Couronne which uses yogurt and gets as close as you can get to sour dough bread but without all the fuss of a starter. My husband's favourite is the Oat and Molasses bread and the Rye and Soured Cream is very tasty as well. I have even been inspired to produce croissants from this book. They were excellent as well!