Bread Making

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Bread Making: Crafting the Perfect Loaf from Crust to Crumb

by Lauren Chattman

The perfect loaf, every time.  If you’ve never known the satisfaction of taking warm fragrant bread from your oven, now is the time to start kneading.  Lauren Chattman anticipates all the questions and provides answers for every situation likely to arise in the home bread baker’s kitchen.  Her start-to-finish primer on everything bread will make confident bakers of the most hesitant beginners.

Just a few of the things you’ll learn:

• How to purchase, store, and work with the best ingredients for the bread you want.
• Learn about pre-ferments, and how yeast behaves, and how to control it.
• Know your dough!  Ferment, turn, shape, proof, and score your dough like a pro.

Learn how to make brioche, challah, ciabatta, English muffins, poppy seed and onion rye bread, spelt batardes, sunflower seed bread, whole-wheat naan, and many more!

266 pages, paperback