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The Bread Baker's Apprentice: Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread
By Peter Reinhart, Ron Manville
Ten Speed Press - 2001
This is a truly excellent book……it taught me how to make bread and understand the process so I would have the knowledge and confidence to tackle recipes from other books that don’t give detailed instructions.
It wasn’t my intention to bake every recipe in this book, but over a period of 3 years, that’s what I did, starting with the raisin walnut bread and finishing with the stollen. I didn’t love all of the recipes and I did have some failures but I learned that bread is very forgiving and even the recipes that weren’t a total success were edible ……croutons anyone?