Bread - Softcover

Beth Hensperger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0877014434 ISBN 13: 9780877014430

Publisher: Chronicle Books Llc, 1988

Synopsis

Nothing says home like the aroma of bread hot from the oven. Even in its simplest form, a humble product of flour, water, and yeast, the handmade loaf plays a starring role in any cook's repertoire, Bread, with more than 100 outstanding original recipes, is a celebration of this most satisfying of the basic culinary arts. From its old-fashioned Italian peasant rolls to sophisticated champignon brioche, from quick biscuits to elaborate coffee cakes, author Beth Hensperger's Bread has something to match every taste and fit every occasion. There are savory breads for elegant dinners, picnic breads for sunny days, whole-grain breads for the energetic morning, tea breads for the last afternoon. You'll also find recipes for flavored butters, cheese spreads, mustards, and jams. Beautiful full-color photographs and clear, comprehensive instructions are found throughout these pages, inspiring the old hand and smoothly launching the first-time bread baker.

About this title

About the Author

Beth Hensperger is an acclaimed San Francisco Bay Area-based food writer, cooking instructor, and bread maven who has written articles for Cooking Light , Shape , Bon Appetit , and Family Circle magazines among others and pens a weekly baking column in the

Victor Budnik is the photographer of Grill Book, winner of the Tastemaker Award for best specialty cookbook. His San Francisco studio produces beautiful food photography for editorial and advertising media.

From Publishers Weekly

Here's a book about breadcomprehensive to a faultthat has risen and risen and gone everywhere. Certainly it's fit for the coffee table: the full-page color photographs are masterfully glossy. The whimsy of form sometimes reigns over fact, as when a delicate loaf is depicted alighting on a bed of creamy cheese spread without going soggy. And bread as the staff of life is neglected once the recipes get sweeter and more exotic and finally arrive at jams, butters, mustards, spreads and "the art of melba." On the way, though, are very appealing true-blue breads, many original and calling only for ordinary ingredients. Sections on savory and sweet breads are exceptionally good. Directions are usually explicit, and no recipe in this elegantly designed book requires a baker to turn the page. A section on basics, however, is no more than adequate; a novice would have a hard time figuring out how to knead. Hensperger's spiritual enthusiasm for bread-baking can compromise her clarity. She would do well to consider the art of the paragraph, as well as that of the mixing bowl.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chronicle Books Llc
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0877014434
• ISBN 13: 9780877014430
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144
• Editor: Chronicle Books LLC Staff