Self-Sufficiency: Breadmaking: Essential Guide for Beginners

The perfect beginner-friendly guide to making your own bread!
40 recipes for white, wheat, sourdough, baguettes, ciabatta, potato, soda bread, and more
Essential equipment, from a pastry brush and scales to mixers and bakeware
Techniques including mixing, kneading, rising, knocking back, shaping, proofing, and glazing
Troubleshooting including dough that is too wet or too dry, baking problems, and texture issues
Making your own bread by hand is a simple pleasure and a great starting point for anyone looking to become a little more self-sufficient. This book will show you how!
Achievable with even a basic level of culinary skill, breadmaking can be therapeutic—there's nothing better for relieving a bit of tension than thumping and kneading the dough on the work surface!—while adapting a recipe and shaping the dough can unleash your creative side. Filling your kitchen with the delicious smells of baking bread is reward enough in itself, but it's important that the finished product tastes great, too!
Inside this book, food writer and culinary stylist Kathryn Hawkins covers the basic steps to get you started, including essential equipment and simple breadmaking techniques. You'll find 40 tasty bread recipes, including simple white, whole wheat, and rye loaves, sourdough and French baguettes, and flavored bread and international fare from every corner of the globe, including brioche à tête, pita bread, bagels, naan, stollen (German fruit bread), panettone (Italian Christmas bread), soda bread, pane al cioccolato, and more.
Charming artwork, simple instructions, and informative writing make Self-Sufficiency: Breadmaking an invaluable guide for anyone who's always wanted to make warm, delicious bread in their own home while becoming a little less reliant on processed, pre-packaged food. Get started today, and get ready to enjoy a lifetime of hot, fresh bread straight from your own oven!