Secrets to Baking Your Best Bread Ever

By Loretta Sorensen

Did you know a digital thermometer can take your loaves from flat to fabulous, to turn out loaves of bread that are almost too beautiful to eat? This soft-cover, 60-page book includes all the steps to help you manage your bread dough, five basic bread recipes and tons of tips to help you get tasty results from your bread

• Language: English
• Publisher: Prairie Hearth Publishing LLC
• Release date: Dec 13, 2018
• ISBN: 9780578435008

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SECRETS

TO BAKING YOUR

BEST BREAD EVER!

Loretta Sorensen

Secrets to Baking Your Best Bread Ever!

Our Dakota Notebook Series #1

ISBN: 978-0-578-41537-6

ISBN: 978-0-578-43500-8 (e-book)

© Loretta Sorensen: Prairie Hearth Publishing LLC

Cover art: © 2018 Loretta Sorensen and

CM Design (Yankton, South Dakota)

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Published by Prairie Hearth Publishing, LLC

2310 Willowdale Rd

Yankton, South Dakota 57078

First printing December 2018

PREFACE

Like so many home makers I know, I have tried for years to bake beautiful loaves of bread for my family.

When I bought a new bread machine in December 2017, I had high hopes of finally turning out those delicious loaves I watched my mother bake all through my childhood.

Still, all I turned out were brick-like loaves that no one in my house (or any other house!) wanted to eat.

It looked like not even a bread machine could help. But I couldn’t bear to have another kitchen appliance gathering cobwebs on a cupboard shelf.

That’s when the magic started! I spent several weeks experimenting with bread recipes and recipe methods. What I learned – the secret to baking beautiful bread in your bread machine EVERY time – is that changing one little step in the baking process makes all the difference – and picture-perfect loaves! All I learned and now use to bake bread is contained in this book so you can bake your own amazing and delicious breads – time after time!

Happy baking!

CONTENTS

Home-Made Bread Cheat Sheet

Why Use a Bread Machine?

Fast and Easy

A Word About Yeast

Equipment Essentials

Bread Pan Basics

Flour Power

The Need to Knead

Rise Up

Storing Your Beautiful Bread!

RECIPES

White Bread

100% Whole Wheat Bread

Multi-Grain Bread

100% Whole Wheat Bread (w/egg).

Buns, Rolls and More

Online Flour Sources

"I would say to housewives, be not daunted by one failure, nor by twenty.

Resolve that you will have good bread, and never cease striving after this result till you have effected it."

Housekeeping in Old Virginia,

Marion Cabell Tyree (1878)

CHAPTER 1

HOME-MADE BREAD CHEAT SHEET

If you’re fairly experienced with