The Laurel's Kitchen Bread Book: A Guide to Whole-Grain Breadmaking: A Baking Book

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The classic, best-selling cookbook devoted to baking honest, delectable and nutritious whole grain breads, UPDATED with a new chapter on bread machines and original recipes. THE LAUREL'S KITCHEN BREAD BOOK has long been regarded as a classic because of its clear, accurate, detailed explanations, beautiful woodcut illustrations, and great recipes. Home bakers and bakers in small-scale local bakeries refer to it as the bread "bible" because, even after all these years, LKBB is still the only guide to making light, delicious breads of every sort - entirely from whole-grain flours.This specially updated guide includes a brand new chapter on bread machines; Laurel has personally tested a range of machines, evaluating which self-proclaimed "whole-wheat-capable" breadmakers produce bountiful loaves and which fall flat. The updated volume also includes new recipes specifically designed for machines, so even the beginner machine-user can experiment and create the healthy, flavorful loaves for which Laurel's Kitchen is famous.

To hundreds of thousands, Laurel Robertson has become a guiding spirit whose kitchen symbolizes whole-food cookery at its best. She is the author of Laurel's Kitchen, a vegetarian cookbook first published in 1976 that was a major contributor to the increasing awareness of vegetarian eating in the United States. With her co-contributors, including Carol Flinders, Bronwen Godfrey, and Brian Ruppenthal, she has written several more Laurel's Kitchen books, including The Laurel's Kitchen Bread Book, Laurel's Kitchen Recipes, and Laurel's Kitchen Caring.

"Original, thorough and comprehensive...Should help to demystify the process of baking with whole grains." -The New York Times Book Review "Here at last is a readable source of information heretofore available only to professional bakers." -East West Journal "Sets a new standard with clear, easily followed recipes that not only tell you 'how,' but 'why.'" -Newsday "We get lots of requests for 100 percent whole-grain bread machine recipes. Thanks to Laurel, we can fulfill these requests. What a wonderful, well-researched book! There are many delicious and varied recipes, and best of all some really innovative ideas on how to make whole-grain bread machine baking easy and successful. This will definitely be added to our baking library." -Linda Rehberg and Lois Conway, authors of Bread Machine Magic