Bread Baking for Beginners: The Essential Guide to Baking Kneaded Breads, No-Knead Breads, and Enriched Breads

The guidance you need to go from absolute beginner to artisanal bread baker  

Discover how anyone can combine flour, yeast, water, and salt to create hot and delicious bread in the comfort of your own kitchen. Filled with straightforward guidance, Bread Baking for Beginners is the ideal bread cookbook for new bakers. Complete with step-by-step photographs and instructions, this beautiful bread baking guide offers a tasty collection of recipes for kneaded, no-knead, and enriched breads that you'll love. In addition to important info on everything from prep and proof times to key terminology and kitchen essentials, you'll also get must-have tips for troubleshooting bread baking issues.

KNEAD TO KNOW: Discover the science behind the bread baking process, popular techniques, and the tools needed to bake fluffy, flavorful loaves so you can bake bread for everyone at your table.

STEPPING SCONES: Level up your bread baking skills with recipes that progress from a beginner's, easy-to-master recipe into dozens of intermediate and advanced sweet and savory breads.

FROM 'D'OH!' TO DOUGH: Troubleshoot bread baking issues with FAQs that address everything from burnt brioche to deflated baguettes.

This bread cookbook will help you master the craft of bread making so you can share homemade loaves with the whole family. Perfect as Christmas gifts, this book is also a delightful stocking stuffer for the cook in your life.

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 1920s bungalow, you can find her bicycling the trails with her three children, picking up veggies and fruit at the farmers market, or checking out cookbooks and picture books at the library.