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Introducing Modernist Bread at Home
Modernist Bread at Home is your guide to making incredible homemade bread. This new indispensable cookbook is thoughtfully tailored to the specific needs of home bakers so that you can get great results in your kitchen, regardless of how much time or experience you have.
A Look Inside
After hundreds of experiments, the Modernist Cuisine team has distilled all of that wisdom down into a comprehensive, 420-page single volume that proves bread-making can be attainable and convenient. Inside, you’ll discover innovative yet practical techniques, time-saving tips, helpful scientific insights, and foundational recipes, putting delicious homemade bread at your fingertips.
A Book for Home Bakers
Modernist Bread at Home makes homemade bread approachable for even the most novice of home bakers. With that in mind, the team carefully created easy-to-follow recipes that were tested to ensure they work with home ovens and equipment, developed step-by-step visual guides, and found new ways to streamline the baking process.
Practical Techniques
Whether it’s new ways of utilizing tools already found in your kitchen, enhancing the flavor of bread with pressure-caramelized inclusions, or using our dough CPR method to rescue overproofed dough, there’s information that both well-seasoned home bakers and complete novices will find helpful. There are plenty of new invaluable skills to master, bringing a new level of confidence to your baking.
Delicious Recipes
Modernist Bread at Home features over 160 recipes spanning the world of bread. Learn how to make beautiful loaves with a depth of flavor beyond what you find in the store: rustic sourdoughs, traditional French lean breads, lighter-than-air sandwich breads, decadent brioches, and beautifully textured ryes, as well as challah, focaccia, bagels, bao, unbelievable gluten-free loaves, and more. A 172-page wire-bound kitchen manual brings the recipes and reference tables together in one compact collection.
Where to Start Guides
Don’t know where to start? That’s okay. A planning guide will show you how to fit bread into your schedule. From there, we help you determine where to start with the recipes and how to gear up for bread making.
Easy-to-Follow Recipe Format
Great care went into designing how recipes are formatted in this book. The unique layout makes it easy to follow, understand, and prep for recipes. An illustrated tour breaks down the format and essential information before you get started.
Step-by-Step Tutorials
You’ll find over 60 step-by-step tutorials that walk you through important details of nearly every technique and master recipe in the book. There are also visual guides to help you troubleshoot common problems for every step of the bread-making process.