| | The Tassajara Bread Book |  | Author: Edward Espe Brown
Publisher: Peter Smith Pub Inc
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  50 reviews
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Rev & Updt
ISBN: 0844662666
Dewey Decimal Number: 641
EAN: 9780844662664
ASIN: 0844662666
Publication Date: June 1987
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Product Description
Good bread needs more than just flower and water, milk, or eggs. It requires nurturing and care. In this twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the international best-seller that started a generation of Americans baking, Ed Brown shows how to make?and enjoy?breads, pastries, muffins, and desserts for today's sophisticated palates. And in a new afterword, he reflects on the widespread influence of the book and offers five new recipes.
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Fantastic for beginners and experienced alike December 1, 2008
The beauty of this book is that it reminds you that the making of bread is not rocket science. The author doesn't hit you over the head "shoulds" and "musts." Rather, he teaches you through recipe variations that there is a lot of room to make your own creations to your taste. There really is no bad bread (other than Wonderbread) -- there's just different bread.
The book is structured very well, with master recipes. The foundation of the book is the basic Tassajara yeasted bread. Once you've got that down, just as the author promises, everything else is really a variation on that.
I can't recmmoned this book highly enough. The "Tassajara Bread Book" rightly reclaims the art of making bread from the machine world of exact measurements and digital bread machines.
 Disappointing August 12, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
After reading all the positive reviews of this book I had high hopes. I've made a number of the recipes from this book and they have all produced mediocre results or been failures. This seems to be the fault of the recipes as I usually have great success with baking. I would recommend Beatrice Ojakangas's baking books as much better alternatives to this one.
Excellent for most July 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is an excellent book for those who wish to learn the ART of baking. For many, including myself, baking is a labor of love, and an expression of spirit.
Those who like clear-cut recipes may not be comfortable with this book as the recipes are interspersed with notes, drawings, etc, and the recipes require a bit of learning by doing.
I like that every step is paired with an explanation of why/what it does.
I received this book as a wedding gift, and I will definitely be passing this one along to others.
Don't be afraid of the bread July 9, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
For years I have been intimidated by bread - previous attempts have been disasterous: I have baked loaves so dense they have their own gravitational field, or a bread-like substance somewhat akin to crackers lies in the bread pan. I had almost given up on it, until a friend handed me this book and said, "Don't be afraid of the bread - try this."
The recipies are simple, and the instructions are idiot-proof with diagrams on how to mix, knead and shape the dough. My first tenative attempts were not bad - certainly I have much more to learn and to tinker with, but Brown's clear instructions make the process remarkably easy. In addition to the "idiot-proofing" of bread making, the book has a wide variety of recipes for all kinds of bread: pastries, muffins, rolls, even dessert breads. It is not too much of a stretch to claim that for most of us, there is no need for any other books about making bread if you own _The Tassajara Bread Book_. If I can be successful using it, anybody can - therefore I strongly recommend it to anyone struggling with breadmaking.
why didn't someone tell me about this book sooner July 5, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
good god, i have tried to make bread periodically over the years only to end up with a heavy dense product that was never any good. if i had found this book back when i first tried making bread i would have been much better off. this book is excellent, i picked it up after watching the author's dvd how to cook your life and he explained things so well that i had to get it, and i was not disappointed. the book is incrediblely easy to follow though i recommend photo copying the instruction pages so you don't get the book goey like i did. but the bread turned out light and fluffy on the very first attempt and the flavor was great. i can't wait to bake my way through this book. and if you are like i was wanting to bake bread but intimidated by it. this is the book for you.
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