Baking Artisan Pastries & Breads: Sweet and Savory Baking for Breakfast, Brunch, and Beyond

by Ciril Hitz

Never settle for store-bought pastries and breads again! With Baking Artisan Pastries and Breads as your guide, your day can begin with hearty, delicious treats -- baked fresh from your own oven. Begin with a few everyday ingredients and a hankering for home baking, and you end up with a kitchen full of artisan-quality muffins, scones, quick breads, donuts, and more. The home-baking movement is ever-expanding, a subculture full of people hungry for knowledge culled from the professional community. Simultaneously, the professionals are seeking out masters from previous generations, as well as new frontiers of information, to expand their skills. Baking Artisan Pastries and Breads meets all your pastry and bread baking needs, from Mixed-Berry Muffins that are ready within the hour to Chocolate Croissants and decadent Lemon Brioche Donuts. Along the way you'll learn how to select kitchen equipment, choose high-quality ingredients, and master mixing and shaping techniques.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Food, Ebooks, Nonfiction, Mine

176 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[Rooks · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really informative without being particularly long-winded. I was waiting to write a review until I'd, you know, made some bread; today's ciabatta did not disappoint! It has extraordinarily clear instructions that tell you both how and why, which I always appreciate in something as precise and easy to screw up as bread baking. I'd definitely recommend this, and my review may go to five stars as I try more recipes.

[Heydi Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

My husband and I love this book. The recipes and instructions are fabulous!

[Bill]

Excellent book on baking bread. Use it regularly. Includes link to videos to show how to do certain baking manipulations.

[Laura · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've had great success with the baguette and the ciabatta formulas, I'm looking forward to trying the others!

[Heather · Rating 3 out of 5]

good, in-depth info without being as long or sounding as complicated as the bread bible or the baker's apprentice. the many variations on basic recipes gives plenty of options as well as inspiration for making my own changes. the DVD was great for seeing techniques in action that are hard to capture with still photography. now i just need to get baking....

[Rebecca]

I came across this bread baking book at Horizon Books, our favorite independent bookstore in Traverse City, Michigan. I've picked up several great bread cookbooks there. The bonus with this book is a DVD with excellent tips on shaping dough. I recommend this one!

[Marilyn Clay · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've never been much of a baker. However, I love Artisan Breads and my mission this winter is to master the 10 formulas in this book. Stay tuned!

[Nick]

Read the intro and skimmed the recipes. now I just gotta bake something! Pizza dough is probably one of the first things.

[Yasmeen · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best bread baking books you'll ever use.

[Sandie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great baking book with many recipes for the advanced baker

[Janie Zekkou · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great but too advanced for me right now

[Bridgette Sparks · Rating 4 out of 5]

loved the chart in the back of the book. More detail than Jim Lahey's book,

[Marilyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was so amazing I bought it!! It comes with a DVD that shows how to handle and shape the dough--I have learned a lot!!

[Jennah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great tried and true recipes.

[Mckinley · Rating 4 out of 5]

With illustrations, explanations and instructions