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25 October 2018

Bread Baking for Beginners by Bonnie Ohara Book Review!


Bread Baking for Beginners offers the easiest tutorials and recipes to make every bread lover into a home baker.
Flour, yeast, water, and salt —even with the simplest of ingredients, making homemade bread can be a daunting task if you’ve never done it before. From total scratch to your first batch, Bread Baking for Beginners offers simple, user-friendly tutorials and recipes to mix, knead, and enjoy freshly baked loaves at home.
Bonnie Ohara, a self-taught baker who runs a micro-bakery out of her own kitchen, preps home cooks with clear explanations of the bread making process and basic techniques. Complete with photographs to help guide you, this bread cookbook offers 32 recipes for kneaded breads, no-knead breads, and enriched breads that prove you can bake your bread, and eat it too.
From mixing ingredients to taking your first loaf out of the oven, this bread cookbook shows new bakers how to do it all with:
  • An essential introduction that thoroughly explains the bread making process, popular techniques, and basic equipment to stock your kitchen with
  • Master recipe tutorials that accompany each chapter with a basic recipe formula, and progressively introduce new techniques as you advance through the recipes
  • 32 fool-proof recipes that range from savory to sweet breads, and include Focaccia, Pizza, Whole Grains, Brioche, Challah, Sourdough, and more!
When you’re ready to get your hands floury, Bread Baking for Beginners serves up the recipes and tutorials you need to bring the aroma of perfectly baked loaves to your home.

My Review
I have been baking bread for many years and when offered this bread baking cookbook for beginners, I was excited for it to arrive. This cookbook is amazing, there was a lot of thought and research done in writing the book.

The book covers the process of baking bread, with detailed explanations of the forming of bread, techniques, proper equipment to use and recipes. The recipes themselves are very detailed with some recipes having pictures that show how to make the bread. The recipes cover so many different kinds of bread, from no-knead bread, kneaded bread, and Sourdough recipes. Some recipes are pretty basic and easy to follow while others are more in-depth. 

As I was perusing the book, I learned a bit more than I already knew and found that there are recipes that I will definitely be making! It is that time of year for fresh homemade bread, I can already smell the yeast and baked product!

If you are a baker this book would enhance what you know or if you are a beginner wanting to learn how to make bread, this book is for you!

I received the book for review purposes.

About the Author
Bonnie Ohara is a self-taught sourdough bread baker who has been
perfecting her craft since 2010. With a background in literature
and art, she comes to baking with a visual style and runs her 
company with a heart for storytelling. When she's not baking sourdoughs for Alchemy Bread in her 1920's bungalow, you will
find her bicycling the trails with her three children, picking
veggies and fruit at the farmers market or checking out cookbooks and picture books at the library.

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