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Making Artisan Breads in the Bread Machine

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Purchased a physical copy. One of my favorite book that I regularly use. Very easy to follow instructions.

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ARC provided by Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
The idea of making bread from scratch can be daunting. With the help bread machine and Making Artisan Breads in the Bread Machine, making breads is so much more simpler. Michelle Anderson's instructions made it easy to follow.

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Loved the book. I will be honest I have never bern able to successfully make it. This book makes it much less daunting and if you love artisan bread This is definitely a cookbook for you.

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After making what felt like hundreds of loaves of bread during the pandemic, and having settled on a few that kept my family and friends nourished, I looked forward to a few new and easy recipes to add. My sourdough recipe is a time-consuming, hand mixed high hydration dough. “Artisan Breads” fills the bill with a number of fix it and forget it recipes, as well as hybrid recipes that use the bread machine for mixing, kneading and rising, and then use the oven to finish.

I’ll keep several of the recipes in rotation, including a really tasty five grain bread and a versatile classic pizza dough.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

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Time to break out the bread machine! I am always on the lookout for bread machine recipes. The instructions are easy to follow and the recipes sound amazing,

May thanks to Quarto Publishing Group and to NetGalley for the ARC.

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It has been a while since I picked a recipe book to scan through. I own a bread machine that I only used for the same standard function that worked. I have made pizza dough more often than actual bread, if I actually think about it.

This is a very well placed collection. The information is laid out in a way that keeps you interested and simple enough to think it can be done. I am yet to try any of the recipes since my bread machine is currently in storage but I intend to try something (someday). The name is a misnomer though because quite a few of them need something outside of the standard machine’s capacity. In a sense, it begins there but then is modelled by hand and put into an oven. I do not know how I thought it would be otherwise given the shape of a standard machine, but I did think it might all be done with the machine. That is on me! These digital review copies come with a life and you have to finish them before they vanish, hence the review despite not having attempted the actual recipes.

I would recommend this to anyone who wanted to put their machines to more use. I received an ARC thanks to NetGalley and the publishers but the review is entirely based on my own perusing experience and my slight acquaintance with bread baking in a machine.

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The recipes in this book are so delicious and easy to follow. I have dug out my bread machine and started using it again.
May thanks to Quarto Publishing Group and to NetGalley for providing me with a galley in exchange for my honest opinion.

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This books is amazing. A bread machine bible!!!!
Anderson explains the chemistry of bread and changes to make for high altitudes or other conditions. She even includes a trouble shooting guide. Does your bread have a thicker crust than you like? Here are some things to try. Some many of my questions have been answered about break baking and I hadn't even made it to the bread machine parts.
This book is a must have for any kitchen. Get a bread machine and this book now. You will be in heaven.

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I love the idea of a bread cookbook that utilizes a bread machine. The bread machine seems to be this appliance that just lives in the back of a cabinet that was gifted to you as a wedding gift or for a house warming, now you can actually do something with it.
This cookbook utilizes the bread machine in two ways. 1. you make the full recipe in the bread machine. 2. you make the dough in the machine and the bake in the oven. This is great because some breads just cannot be completed in the machine and need shaping before baking.
My one issue with the instructions for some of the full bread machine recipes is that sometimes they use settings that my machine does not have, like French, so it takes some going back and forth to figure out what French means and figuring out which cycle I would choose on my own machine. Now with that said I think this would be true no matter what because not all machines are the same unlike temperature settings on an oven. I am so excited to make so many of the various types of breads that are in the book.

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For me, the best part of this book is the tone of the writing. Totally down-to-earth, never mind that the author is someone with extensive experience as a chef. I like the practicality of using the bread machine and yet still taking time to explain the science behind breadmaking.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Quatro Publishing Group - Harvard Common Press for this free ARC. This review is posted of my own accord, with no compensation from the owners of this advanced reader's copy.

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This is a great book. I can't wait to dust off my bread maker and give some of these delicious looking recipes a go. Like many I got a bit bored of my usual bread recipe, and my bread maker has been in the cupboard ever since. This book has definitely renewed my passion and given me lot of new ideas to try out.

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for an advance copy of this title in exchange for an unbiased review.

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I enjoyed this cookbook. It was easy to understand and got me excited o try many of the recipes. I can't wait to pull out my breadmaker!

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LOVED THIS!! made some killer beads that went down really well at a big family dinner! As someone that loves cooking breads this is definitely a book I'll be adding to my shelf

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There’s nothing like the aroma of homemade bread baking in the oven. I’ve made bread from scratch off and on for decades, and lately using my bread machine. The recipes in this book are relatively easy to follow. Creating the bread in the machine keeps the incidents of failure down. I’ve certainly had my share of failures before I began using this machine. This cookbook is wonderful and what I consider essential as other cookbooks let me down in explanations and accuracy of the recipes. And as I write this, I’m inspired to go buy ingredients to begin a starter as well as some rapid-rise yeast for Focaccia Bread. Yum. I can smell the bread baking now.
I received an advanced reader copy for free from NetGalley and am voluntarily leaving my review.

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Anyone who uses their automatic bread machine often probably knows that the dough function is a great time and energy saver. Although loaves turn out well when baked in some machines, it’s more fun to shape your dough and bake it in conventional pans or free-form. And since artisan breads are a big trend, Making Artisan Breads in the Bread Machine: Beautiful Loaves and Flatbreads from All Over the World is a great cookbook to add to your collection. The author, Michele Anderson, has not only included simple artisan bread that is similar to that at fancy bakeries and higher end grocery store bakeries, but also loaves from all over the world. She obviously has a good imagination, and it’s difficult to go through the book without having trouble deciding which loaf to make next.

The variety of bread recipes is amazing, and having already tried a few, I found that they are easy to follow and turn out picture perfect. There are photographs of most of the breads, and the best thing about those pictures is that they are of finished products that may not be perfect such as a food stylist might shoot, but they look like they came out of a real kitchen.

There are recipes for white breads, whole grain breads, bagels, and rolls. There are recipes for Italian breads, German breads, and others from all over the world. The best part is that the dough is made in the bread machine and then most loaves are shaped and baked in a conventional oven. However there are also some that can be done right in the bread machine from start to finish.

Anyone who wants to utilize their automatic bread machine will find themselves using this excellent cookbook almost every day.

Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.

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I received a galley of the book via NetGalley.

What an incredible resource for bread machine owners--and a book to inspire people to buy a machine, too!

I am incredibly picky about cookbooks. If I'm squeezing one onto my shelf (and yes, I do prefer physical form for cookbooks), it had better have a lot of recipes to make it earn its keep. I wasn’t far into the ebook galley of this new release when I knew this one was well worth buying for my shelf.

I bake most all of my own bread and have for years. Though I use my KitchenAid and food processor for some recipes, using the dough setting on my bread machine is my favorite for sheer convenience. I often try to modify recipes for that method, which usually turns out well but takes some extra effort. This book makes everything super easy with a variety of yeast bread recipes, from basic sandwich bread to sweet brioche to numerous sourdough breads to baguettes to cheesy bread.

The first few chapters provide easy-to-understand information on the science of bread-making, basic ingredients, and troubleshooting tips. That leads into the heart of the book: the recipes. They are arranged in a bread machine-friendly way, with liquids listed first in the ingredients. All of the steps and tips are straightforward from there. Most of the recipes use the machine to conveniently mix and raise the dough, with the baking done in the oven.

I am really looking forward to baking my way through this book!

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The first part of the book describes how a bread machine works, discusses ingredients and describes method for shaping loaves. The information is clear and useful and well laid out.
The recipe section includes a good range of breads, including breads from all over the world, sweet and savoury. Some breads are made completely in the bread machine, in others the dough is made in the machine and the final shaping, proving and baking is done in the oven. The recipes are clear and measurements are given in both imperial and metric.
I tried a number of recipes, with varied success. The pannetone was delicious! Lovely texture and traditional flavour; definitely one I would make again. However I had mixed results from the savoury breads. The Russian black bread had a complex flavour and a rather fine texture. The butter whole wheat bread dough was a little dry, so it was not easy to shape, however it was tasty and it was great toasted. But the fougasse was so wet I could not handle it. It concerns me that this recipe was not fully tested, or that there is a mistake; 300g water and 60g oil to 360g flour is just not workable. To put it in context, Richard Bertinet (the master French bread chef) who works with very wet doughs would use 430g flour to this amount of liquid.
Whilst an error like this is disappointing and off-putting, this book has encouraged me to use my bread machine more, and I will certainly use the machine to make some of the breads that I have traditionally made by hand.

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I love making bread, but do stick to a couple of favourite recipes, so this book was a great opportunity to expand my repertoire. There is a good range of recipes in this title and they are presented in an easy to follow format. The book starts with a good explanation about bread making and the basic ingredients and equipment required, which makes this a great title for beginners. There are plenty of recipes that I would like to try though I would like to have seen more photos of the finished products to help me decide which to try first.

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These recipes are wonderful! My son has been wanting to learn how to make fancy breads in our bread maker for a while now, so it was a no brainer to get this book when I saw it. We started making breads together. He's 13, so that tells you how clear the instructions for the recipes are. Really well explained. And for the most part, what we have made has come out at least very close to what the author says.

The only thing I was kind of surprised that there weren't as many pictures. It's more like a menu, with a few pictures each section. I really like recipe books that have many more pictures. I like to be able to see what the recipe is supposed to look like before I make it--both to see if it's appetizing and to see if mine turns out like theirs! The pictures that are used are beautiful, I just wish there were more.

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an excellent book full of bread recipes that are easy to make . As the owner of a breadmaker I have looked for a book with differing recipes, but to no avail, well I need look no further. thank you Netgalley for allowwing me to download this wonderful book.

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