Customer Reviews:
 Great recipes, but not for the beginner in my opinion August 7, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I am kind of an impatient fellow and my first attempt from this book was probably the most difficult recipe of the lot - pumpernickel bread. This was a complete DISASTER with the bread taking a lot longer to rise, sticking to the "non-stick" pan and basically was inedible. I stopped making my own bread for nearly a year! Back to the bread maker for me!
However, as my wife had bought me the book, and it is the only bread book I have, I went back to it. I had, in the meantime, benefited from a bread making tutorial from my brother and have now tried five or six different recipes from the book and they produced truely EXCELLENT bread. Very faithful to the type they were supposed to be especially the Focaccia, Vienna Bread and San Francisco Sourdough. These three all worked very well and I have gone back to these recipes time and time again.
For the recipes alone, it would get five stars - well worked recipes and very tasty bread but the failure, for me, was the lack of any standard first time bread recipe for the beginner. The book would be more useful if there was some indication about how technically difficult the recipe was and where the beginner should start.
 very good recipes that are not complicated to follow. June 26, 1998
15 out of 17 found this review helpful
A very good cookbook. all the recipes that i have tried so far have been successful and are loved by everyone. simple book but with very good results. Definitely a book to be recommended.
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