Bread Baking for Beginners: The Essential Guide to Baking Kneaded Breads, No-Knead Breads, and Enriched Breads Paperback – October 23, 2018

If you have ever wanted to learn how to make bread this is the book for you. The writing is clear and easy to read, and the instructions spot on. You don't need to have made some kind of bread in your earlier life; this will walk you thru it. Plenty of photos, advice, tips and why you need the tips. You start off with a straightforward bread that requires no kneading. As you get further thru the book, you continue to use the instructions you had finished with the one bread and build onto different recipes and how you achieve them. It is a tutorial and contains everything you need to get started, including tools and tips and reasons why things are done. When you get to the next recipe, you can use what you just learned to get started and she walks you thru it in detail and I can't wait to get started. The more complex breads that require kneading come much later. One caveat: The writer explains the process at which you have to provide warm water for your yeast, and shows you how to figure out the temperature of your kitchen, your flour and how much temperature can really affect the success of your bread, your proofing, the rising and when to handle your dough. And if you are a fan of The Great British Baking Show, it will suddenly clarify to you why all those bakers had under-cooked, over-cooked, under proved, over-proved, wet dough, dry dough, non-airy dough, unrisen dough burned crust or uncooked crust tragedies. Get the spiral bound version, makes it to easy to read and bake without hammering your binding.

This book is great. Easy to follow instructions, recipes are really good. Highly recommend for a beginner like me.

A good friend of mine recommended this book as it helped him learn how to make bread fairly quickly and easily. It's written in a way that makes it easy for novices to understand and explains everything you need to know about baking. A great book for beginners.

I've been making my own sourdough for a while. There is good information in this book. The emphasis on temperature and texture were helpful. The book itself is good quality, the printing is good, no missing pages.I found the recipes to be repetitive, which I'm sure is intentional for beginners. I wish there was more information in the sections on "what went wrong" at the end of the chapters. I also found the instructions to shape a batard confusing and wish there were illustrations that went along with that.Overall this is a good book for beginners who are interested leaning how to make bread. You will need a gram (or postal or kitchen) scale, everything else can be improvised.

Great for starting your sourdough journey, as it’s clearly written. Explains everything really well and includes several unique recipes from a real woman-owned bakery as well as tips and tricks, plus some charm.Bought one for myself and then bought one as a gift.

I am a beginner and this is great. I love that she explains all the steps and really takes you step by step through the recipe. Be sure to read the intro. But don't buy the paperback. I bought the paperback and it fell apart during the first use. I returned it and bought the hardback.

I love to cook and bake but was always hesitant to try making bread... “there’s no way I’d be good at it.. I don’t have an expensive mixer... I’m not skilled enough..” That was until I found this book. Bonnie, in my opinion, is the perfect person to write a bread baking book for beginners because she is a self taught bread baker who only started about 10 years ago! She is so thoughtful in the way she eases you into the process of making bread by starting you off with easier loaves and gradually working you up until you feel comfortable. She also give you tips and tricks on ways to bake with items you most likely already have in your kitchen so you’re not having to spend a ton of money on supplies right away. My favorite part is that all the recipes are made by hand (no expensive mixer needed) which I have found I LOVE so much better. Not to mention her style of writing which made me feel as though a friend was writing to me and encouraging me “.. let the dough rest for 20 minutes and go enjoy a cup of tea..” 😊If you want to learn to bake bread, buy this book! My friends and family are so glad I did as we haven’t had to buy store bought bread since I started! Bread baking does take time, patience and practice. However, shouldn’t we have to work at some things to be good at it?? Not to mention... even my “not so good loaves” are still delicious, there are some recipes that allow for 8 and 12 hour rises to fit better in busy days, and Bonnie provides even more tips, tricks and advice on her instagram page.Oh and to the people upset about the measurements being in grams... yes, you’re right, we do live in America.. but there are also these things called scales (they sell them in America!) you just push a button and it switches over so you can weigh in grams 😲

May be good for beginner but asks for advanced items. A beginner book should only require beginner items.