Baking Artisan Pastries and Breads


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Baking Artisan Breakfast Breads and Pastries offers illustrated recipes that cater to all breakfast needs: from muffins ready within the hour to more decadent treats, such as lemon brioche doughnuts and chocolate croissants. The formulas are generally progressive—the easier recipes are at the beginning and more complex ones are later. The step-by-step full-color process shots of techniques and inviting beauty shots of finished products coupled with clear directions will instill confidence in even the most novice baker. A short (20-30 minute) DVD accompanies the book, adding an invaluable level of instruction.




Baking Artisan Pastries and Breads


Book Description

Baking Artisan Breakfast Breads and Pastries offers illustrated recipes that cater to all breakfast needs: from muffins ready within the hour to more decadent treats, such as lemon brioche doughnuts and chocolate croissants. The formulas are generally progressive-the easier recipes are at the beginning and more complex ones are later. The step-by-step full-color process shots of techniques and inviting beauty shots of finished products coupled with clear directions will instill confidence in even the most novice baker. A short (20-30 minute) DVD accompanies the book, adding an invaluable level of instruction.




The Artisan's Touch


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**The Artisan's Touch Master the World of Gluten-Free Baking** Unlock the secrets of gluten-free baking with "The Artisan's Touch." This comprehensive guide elevates your culinary skills, making gluten-free baking as approachable as it is delicious. Whether you're an experienced baker or just starting your gluten-free journey, this book promises to transform your kitchen into a haven of delightful, wholesome treats. Dive into the fundamentals with Chapter 1, offering a profound introduction to gluten-free baking. Discover why baking gluten-free is not just a necessity for some, but a culinary adventure for all. Master the essential ingredients and understand gluten alternatives to create stunning bakes. Chapter 2 demystifies the science behind gluten-free doughs. Learn how proteins and starches interact differently, explore the roles of various binding agents, and get insider tips on handling tricky gluten-free doughs like a pro. Organize your kitchen for success with Chapter 3. Equip yourself with the must-have tools and set up your space to be a gluten-free baking paradise. From classic bread recipes to sweet and savory tarts, the book meticulously guides you through each step of the process. Take a step further with advanced techniques in Chapter 6. From mastering sourdough to perfecting flatbreads and ciabatta, you’ll gain the skills to produce bakery-quality artisan bread in your own home. Indulge your sweet tooth with Chapters 7 through 11, which cover a plethora of delectable treats including banana bread, cinnamon rolls, flaky pie crusts, brownies, cakes, and much more. Each recipe is crafted to ensure your gluten-free creations are as satisfying and indulgent as traditional baked goods. For the adventurous baker, Chapter 13 introduces an array of international gluten-free delights, enabling you to bring a global twist to your baking repertoire. And don't miss out on Chapter 14's advanced techniques and troubleshooting tips, perfect for those looking to refine their skills. "The Artisan's Touch" also addresses the needs of special diets with dairy-free, vegan, and low-sugar options, ensuring everyone can partake in the joy of baking. By the end of this book, not only will you have a collection of exquisite gluten-free recipes, but also the confidence and encouragement to experiment and innovate further. Start your gluten-free baking journey today with "The Artisan's Touch" and discover a new world of delicious possibilities!




Baking By Hand


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Make the Best Bread at Home with Just Your Hands Nothing beats the intoxicating smell of freshly baked bread. But what if you could create those beautiful artisan loaves in the most traditional way possible: with just your own two hands? Baking by Hand shows you how to do just that. Keep your mixer in the closet as Andy and Jackie King teach you long-forgotten methods that are the hallmarks of their exceptional bakery. They'll take you through all of the steps of making amazing bread, from developing your own sourdough culture, to mixing by hand, traditional shaping techniques and straight on to the final bake. Most importantly, you'll learn the Four-Fold technique-the key to making the kind of bread at home that will simply be top tier in any setting. In this book, Andy and Jackie feature their stand out bakery recipes, including favorites such as their North Shore Sourdough, a perfectly crusted and open-crumbed Ciabatta, and their earthy, healthy and wonderful Multigrain loaf. And that's only half the story. The Kings also offer up techniques and recipes for their much-loved pastries like Concord Grape Pies and Rhubarb-Ginger Tarts, combining seasonality, locality and a passion for fresh ingredients. And they're all ready for you to make-without a mixer. A&J King Artisan Bakers is located in Salem, Massachusetts, and was named one of America's 50 Best Bakeries by The Daily Meal.




Bread Baking


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A guide to making artisan breads practically and profitably, Bread Baking: An Artisan's Perspective includes step-by-step instructions on mixing, fermentation, shaping, proofing and retarding, and baking. Written for both experienced and novice bakers, Bread Baking contains more than 150 helpful photos and drawings that illustrate techniques and showcase beautiful artisan bread products. Covering the business of bread-making, this book features practical advice from successful artisan bakers as well as forty plus tested artisan bread formulas, including ciabatta, pain au levain, bagels, honey whole wheat, croissants, and many more. Artisan bread baker and teacher Dan DiMuzio provides invaluable information on troubleshooting, ingredients, laminated dough, and creating dough formulas. Professional bakers and baking and pastry students will benefit from this practical resource to artisan breads.




Baking Artisan Bread


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Baking Artisan Bread provides an unintimidating, formula-based approach to baking bread at home. With step-by-step, photo-illustrated instructions, chef Ciril Hitz shows you how with just 10 formulas you can create more than 30 different breads. After a full exploration of the ingredients, equipment, and techniques of bread baking, move confidently into the kitchen to bake a range of bread types with easy-to-follow recipes for these doughs: Baguette Ciabatta Whole Wheat Pane Francese Pizza Bagel Pain de Mie Challah Brioche Croissant Once you’ve mastered these staples, expand your repertoire with variations on each formula. Baguette dough yields a bouquet of breadsticks, buttery brioche becomes an elegant fruit Danish, challah transforms into delicately flavored orange aniseed wheels, and so on—deliciously. Baking bread is fun, but the fruits of the labor are often copious. Ciril comes to the rescue with some basic recipes that include bread as a main ingredient, including bread crumbs, croutons, bagel chips, French toast, and bread pudding. A second set of extras includes formulas to help make your bread creations sing, with washes and glazes as well as ideas for sweet and savory embellishments to guide your culinary creativity. With simple ingredients and most of the equipment needed already in the kitchen, you’ll be filling your home with the heavenly aroma of baking bread in no time!




Gail's Artisan Bakery Cookbook


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With mouth-watering photography and over 100 delicious recipes, the team behind GAIL's will take you through the basics of breadmaking and then take you on to preparing a whole cornucopia of sweet and savoury tasty treats and flavourful meals. 'An amazingly helpful fail proof book' -- ***** Reader review 'If you love baking, you need this in your life!' -- ***** Reader review 'Packed with delicious recipes to make over and over again' -- ***** Reader review 'Worth every penny - joyful!' -- ***** Reader review *************************************************************************************** "Good bread begins with just four honest ingredients: flour, water, salt and yeast. Nothing could be simpler and yet nothing is more gratifying." -- GAIL's Since opening the first GAIL's in 2005, the team behind the UK's most inviting artisan bakery has been on a mission to bring high-quality, handmade bread and delicious vibrant food to local communities. In this, their first, stunning cookbook, GAIL's take us through the day with inventive, fresh recipes. Starting with the essential how-tos of mixing, kneading and shaping loaves before going on to offer over 100 varied savoury and sweet recipes, GAIL's will encourage you to try your hand at a basic foolproof bloomer, bake a satisfying sourdough, create morning muffins and pastries, bold salads, flavoursome pies, appetizing tarts and sandwiches, easy afternoon biscuits and cakes, and finally cook delicious savoury meals and desserts for supper. Simply divided into Baker's Essentials, Bread, Breakfast, Lunch, Tea and Supper, the GAIL's Cookbook includes: White poppy seed bloomer French dark sourdough Wholemeal loaf Focaccia Brioche plum and ginger pudding Buckwheat pancakes with caramelised apples and salted butter honey Pizza Bianca with violet artichokes and burrata Truffle, raclette and roast shallot toastie Teatime sandwiches Savoury scones & fruit scones Red quinoa and smokey aubergine yoghurt salad Baked sardines with sourdough crumbs and heritage tomato salad Fregola and chicken salad Baked bread and chicken soup Tuna Nicoise on toast Sourdough lasagna Root vegetable and Fontina bake Leek and goat's cheese picnic loaf Brown sourdough ice cream with raspberry




The Artisan Bread Cookbook


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Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day


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With this revolutionary home baking guide that makes the perfect gift for foodies and cooks, you can make your daily bread--and eat it too! This is the classic that started it all. Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day has now sold hundreds of thousands of copies. With more than half a million copies of their books in print, Jeff Hertzberg and Zoë François have proven that people want to bake their own bread, so long as they can do it easily and quickly. Crusty baguettes, mouth-watering pizzas, hearty sandwich loaves, and even buttery pastries can easily become part of your own personal menu, Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day will teach you everything you need to know, opening the eyes of any potential baker.




Baking Artisan Bread with Natural Starters


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The expert baker behind Kansas City’s Farm to Market Bread Co. shares his natural starter secrets in this complete guide to baking artisanal bread. There’s nothing quite like the pure, simple pleasure of freshly baked bread. And few bakers know bread like Mark Friend, founder of Kansas City’s Farm to Market Bread Company. For more than twenty-five years, Kansas Citians have enjoyed Mark’s fresh-baked creations. Now he teaches you how to bake their own artisanal sourdough, levain, rye, and biga at home. The key to achieving the full-bodied flavor of great bread is using a healthy, naturally fermented starter. Using four core recipes, Mark guides you from pre-fermented starter to warm, aromatic finish. He then offers variations to each recipe, allowing you to expand your baking repertoire.