My Bible is the King Arthur Flour 200th Anniversary cook book. there is every thing from hearth bread to paper mache, dog biscuts to pizza dough and Pate a Choux to Coffecake and every recipie I’ve tried was a winner...

Anyone have a great prune bread recipe to share? I just made the one in the "Bread Bible" and was a little underwhelmed. The recipe called for chopping the dried prunes in the food processor, then adding 1/2 cup whole wheat flour...

The last recipe from king arthur looks like it has potential. The method is along the lines of RLB’s Bread Bible. I think you do need to begin with a starter over night for best results. You can get decent bread w/out, even...

I just checked this book out of the library on many peoples recommendations but I don’t know where to start. Does anyone have any favorites? I have been working through the Bread Bible for a few months now so I feel...

Beth Hensperger has a bread machine book. She’s a noted bread baking authority. I use her "Bread Bible" all the time.

A good book is The Bread Machine Bible by Beth Hensperger. It has recipes for every type of bread under the sun, pasta doughs, short breads (yeast free), bagels etc.....chock full of information about flour, all the ingredients...

Beth Hensperger’s "Bread Bible" (see Bread Machine post above) has an excellent WW bread recipe that used powdered buttermilk. After many tries with other recipes, I’ve settled on this one. Dense, but not scary. Makes...

we were just having this discussion the other day. It seems we are having trouble finding this very dark rye that we both grew up with years ago. I have resorted to getting a bread cookbook and searching thru it for a decent...

Peter Reinhart’s books are full of great information. I also like Rosie Levy Berenbaum’s bread bible because she covers different techniques with using food processor, stand mixer, by hand, etc. I find it more...

them. The Bread Bible -Rose Levy Beranbaum Any of Peter Reinhart’s books. Harold McGee or Shirley Corriher’s food science books

Berenbaum’s The Bread Bible for Christmas, and have been doing so since. The first time, I didn’t have time to let it go overnight, so I just let the sponge sit out on the counter for a few hours, made the bread, and...

), not such a big issue. I’d advise getting a good bread book that discusses baking percentages from the library. (I love RLB’s Bread Bible.) Read it not so much for the recipes but for the science. As Chowser points...

the bread machine often anyway, only when I’m pressed for time). It is possible to use the sponge in the bread maker but I haven’t done it. A good book that discusses using the bread maker is Rose Levy...

Another very good book on bread baking is Rose Levy Breanbaum’s Bread Bible. It has very thorough and covers the subject in depth. Just get in there and do it. It just takes practice.

I recommend Beth Hensperger’s books—"Beth’s Basic Breads" or "Bread Made Easy". (Her "Bread Bible" is a compilation of recipes from her shorter books without the illustrations which are a big help. Don’t...