Unlike other books on bread and baking, this is not a collection of recipes. This book teaches the proper ratios of ingrediants and how to properly calculate your dough recipe. Written purely for the beginning baker, this simple and straighforward approach to baking will have even the most novice baker in the kitchen in no time. Also simply explained are variations of flour and how to shape and mold the doughs for everything from a simple loaf to baguettes and braided, twisted rolls.