Making European Breads

Imagine making your own ciabatta, sourdough, English muffins, challah, naan, rye bread, brioche, and more! Even complete beginners can successfully bake their own bread with this in-depth course in core bread-making techniques. From buying flour to slicing a warm baguette, you’ll find everything you need to know to make artisanal loaves of every bread style, including straight doughs, sourdoughs, yeasted flatbreads, and more.

From The Back Cover:
If you've never known the satisfaction of taking a warm fragrant bread from your oven, now is the time to start kneading. Lauren Chattman anticipates all the questions and provides answers for every situation likely to arise in the home bread baker's kitchen. Her start-to-finish primer on everything bread will make confident bakers of the most hesitant beginners.

Master the craft of bread making with Lauren Chattman's Home Course:
- Purchase, store, and work with the best ingredients for the bread you want
- What is a pre-ferment? Learn how yeast behaves and how to control fermentation to produce various breads
- Knead confidently by hand or in a stand mixer or food processor
- Know your dough! Ferment, turn, shape, proof, and score your dough like a pro

Baking with sourdough is truly a wonderful craft and produces breads with an amazing flavor and texture. After learning about how to start a sourdough culture, your eyes will be opened to this ancient method of bread making and you will have a new appreciation for this simple food. Explore numerous recipes in this book such as traditional white bread, sourdough pretzels and even old-fashioned sourdough pancakes!

Learn How To Make:
- Sourdough White Sandwich Bread
- Sourdough French Bread
- Sourdough Pumpernickel
- Sourdough Whole Wheat Bread
- Molasses Rye Bread
- Sourdough Banana Bread
- Sourdough Skillet Biscuits
- Old Fashioned Pancakes
- Apple Muffins
- Sourdough Pretzels
- Sourdough Zucchini Bread
- Sourdough Cherry Cobbler
- Strawberry Shortcake
- Sourdough Chocolate Cake
- And More!

From the Back Cover:
Since the 1973 publication of Storey's first Country Wisdom Bulletin, our commitment to preserving the arts, crafts, and skills of country life has never wavered. We now have more than 200 titles in this series of 32-page publications, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.

Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins contain practical, hands-on instructions designed to help you master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. From traditional skills to the newest techniques, Storey's Bulletins provide a foundation of earth-friendly information for the way you want to live today.