The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook brings together over 300 mouth-watering recipes for bread machines from renowned bread baking expert Beth Hensperger. Versatile, affordable, and efficient, bread machines bridge the gap between taste and convenience, turning out perfect loaves every time. Hensperger shows you how to utilize this incredible machine to make fresh and signature loaves of bread--from classic white loaves, hearty whole-wheat breads, and pizza doughs to quick breads, sweet breads, swirled breads, and even jams.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Essential for those new to bread machines:
This is an outstanding book for bread machine owners. I have several good bread books including another by Hansperger but this one helped me to have a great experience with my bread machine. Most recipes are given in 1.5 pound as well as 2 pound versions. When I reviewed prior to purchase I thought it was repetitious and redundant, but once I used the book I realized the value of the author's hard work. I use a 1.5 pound loaf when baking in my Breadman Ultimate, and the 2 pound when baking in the... more info
This book damaged my breadmaker:
I tried a couple of recipes from the book with decent results. Trying to adapt some of the half-whole-wheat recipes into 100% whole wheat recipes didn't turn out that great, but that's probably less the book's fault and more my own. The recipes where I followed the book with no adaptations turned out fine. So I will echo what several other reviews said - that I was disappointed at how few of the whole grain recipes were truly WHOLLY whole grain. But then I tried the "Dutch Sugar Loaf" recipe and it... more info
Bread Machine Bible:
We bought this book for our daughter as a christmas gift, and it was a great success.
We had not peeked at it, and were very surprised with the amount of recipes, and information in this book.
Fantastic!:
While reading reviews on bread machines, I found so many recommendations for this book that I decided to purchase it with my new bread machine. We've tried the recipes for honey whole wheat, chocolate cherry bread, and the whole wheat croissants. Every recipe has turned out perfect!
