's "Breads from the La Brea Bakery"—which is based on naturally leavened breads—has some great discussion of hand kneading techniques. And, of course, Rose Levy Berenbaum’s "Bread Bible." And if you have a food...

Where to find a good one in SF? Bay breads and its subsidiaries (la boulangerie, boulange de polk, boulange de cole) have one that I tried and am not convinced by it (as a French person). Tartine does not do any, even though...

as there is no advice on that other than a few paragraphs about “all this stuff can be mixed by hand”. So if you are a complete novice, some google-fu to find proper hand mixing/kneading techniques could be of help. I...

I can second the Allrecipes.com link. I’ve been working my way though them along with my copy of the Beth Hensperger’s Bread Machine Bible. http://books.google.com/books?id=Ew8rS8PCkpo

I’m new to bread-baking and a little intimidated. So of course I turn to you wise Chowhounders for advice. 1. Is there a good beginners bread baking cookbook I should reference first? I have The Bread Bible right now...

Basically don’t let the bread rise as long. Rising creates the multitude of air bubbles which give you that light airy stuff you detest so much. Another factor could be the recipe you’re using. Get one of the Bread...

I have 180 engrained in my head. I don’t know if I read that on the King Arthur side, The Bread Bible, or what. It’s just one of those things I remember, though I haven’t tried it yet.

is such a departure from the loaves I’ve been experimenting with in Rose Levy Beranbaum’s Bread Bible, where you’re encouraged to measure everything by weight. I feel so liberated! By the way, I’m using a...

. Also, last night I modified a banana bread recipe I have. I replaced the flour with a combination of coconut flour, almond flour, and hazelnut flour. I also took out the sugar and just used a little bit of honey; the ripe...

I’ve been really inspired by all of you bread bakers, and by this great blog, www.breadbasketcase.blogspot.com, and would like to start teaching myself to make bread this winter. I own RLB’s "Bread Bible," and have...

Check out Rose Levy Beranbaum’s site realbakingwithrose. She’s the author of "The Bread Bible". She’s developed a whole wheat loaf that might be similar to what you want. Search for whole wheat on her site.

ingredients together. You’ll get many helpful answers if you try the Home Cooking Board to post a question about the recipe, flour & yeast for your perfect bread. Anyone who directs you to Rose Levy Beranbaum’s "The...

I need to get that book. Thanks for the link. I’ve read Reinhart’s Crust and Crumb and RLB’s Bread Bible and there are shelves full of other books at the library that I’ve looked at, but haven’t seen...

Rose Levy Beranbaum, a.k.a. author of The Bread Bible, has also tested this recipe and has a few suggestions and things to say about the bread. Among them being that she thinks you could just bake the loaf on a hot pizza stone on...

Does your recipe give a description of how the crust will turn out? There is quite a bit of variation in types of bread. I highly recommend "The Bread Bible" by Rose Levy Beranbaum. She does a very thorough job of explaining all...