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Make Ahead Bread: 100 Recipes for Melt-in-Your-Mouth Fresh Bread Every Day {Cookbook}

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Make Ahead Bread: 100 Recipes for Melt-in-Your-Mouth Fresh Bread Every Day

by Donna Currie

Publisher: Taunton Press

Publication Date: November 2014

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Featured Recipe: Yeasted Aebleskivers

12 Days of Christmas Cookbook Giveaways, 2014:

Day 8, Make Ahead Bread

In Make Ahead Bread, Donna Currie offers a simple two-step process for baking delicious, fresh-from-the-oven yeast breads:

  • Step One – mix and knead the dough, then let it rest for 1-2 days while you enjoy life.
  • Step Two – bake.

Yes, it’s that simple. Your home will smell amazing while you bake any of the 100 recipes in Make Ahead Bread, including Loaf Breads (e.g., Bacon, Tomato and Cheddar Loaf; Maple Sugar and Walnut Loaf), Buns, Rolls, and Breadsticks (e.g., Slider Buns; Cheesy Breadstick Twists), Flatbreads (e.g., Chicago-style Pan Pizza; Semolina Focaccia), and Pastries (e.g., Breakfast Sausage Danish; Traditional Croissants).

Make Ahead Bread gives inexperienced bakers and busy home cooks the information they need to make freshly baked bread on their schedule. Just in case you have any leftover bread, you can use it in the recipes from the Leftover Bread chapter (e.g., Almond Butter Bread Pudding; Artichoke, Olive and Tomato Strata; Overnight French Toast). Another chapter features scrumptious butters and spreads (e.g., Chunky Apple and Cinnamon Spread; Chocolate Butter), and still another is devoted to baking ingredients and equipment.

Cooks&Books&Recipes Editors {Dee}, on Make Ahead Bread: 100 Recipes for Melt-in-Your-Mouth Fresh Bread Every Day

Full disclosure: the author of Make Ahead Bread, Donna Currie, is a Cooks&Books&Recipes featured cook. I am not a baker, so guess who I ask to review baking-related cookbooks? I was thus not at all surprised to learn that Donna had published her own cookbook, and I was thrilled when I learned her concept: all the recipes use her simple two-step process, meaning that I could fit bread-baking into my schedule — especially when I saw that many of the recipes looked simple enough for even me to try!

Now that I’ve successfully made my own aebleskivers from scratch, I can’t wait to try some of these other recipes that look easy enough for a beginner like me: White Whole-Wheat Honey Vanilla Buns; Ciabatta (my favorite store-bought bread, and yes, the recipe sounds simple!); Sourdough English Muffins (a bread I would never have considered baking before seeing Donna’s instructions). If you’re a more-experienced baker, Donna has you covered too: Sweet Bubble Loaf; Sticky Buns; Cinnamon Croissants; White Rye Sandwich Buns with Nigella Seed Topping.

Who knows? With Make Ahead Bread, maybe I’ll even consider myself to be a baker one of these days…

The Cookbook Basics:

Paperback (8 x 10.2 inches)

208 pages, color photos, 100 recipes

About the author: Donna Currie is a passionate home baker who blogs at Cookistry. She also writes a bread-baking column for Serious Eats, is a food writer for the Boulder Daily Camera and the Whole Foods Market cooking blog, and occasionally reviews cookbooks for Cooks&Books&Recipes.

Cookbook Giveaway:

Thanks to publisher Taunton Press, we’re giving away a copy of Make Ahead Bread to one lucky Cooks&Books&Recipes reader. Enter below.

{The other 12 Days of Christmas Cookbook Giveaways are listed here.}

Giveaway Notes:

There are six ways to enter the giveaway, but it’s not necessary to do all six entries. Choose whichever one(s) you like, and you’ll be entered in the giveaway. The winner, to be randomly selected and notified by e-mail, must claim the cookbook within 10 days. Giveaway ends on Monday, January 19.

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Disclosure: Cooks&Books&Recipes receives books for possible review, though we make no promise that all books received will be featured. We highlight only those cookbooks that we feel will interest our readers. For this giveaway, the publisher is providing one copy of the book. We received no monetary compensation for our review or giveaway.

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Make Ahead Bread

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  3. We love making my husbands grandmothers recipe for rye bread. So delicious. Would love to have this book to learn to make other amazing breads.

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  26. Bread is one of my most favorite things to make……and this book with its many recipies just for bread sounds awesome. I’d love to win this book… I think it would be awesome to start my own blog making a different recipie from the book each day! Thanks for teh Chsnce to win

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  27. Homemade bread is the best and I love that there are recipes that don’t take much time and that you can fit in you schedule.

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  34. I do already make my own bread (usually with a bread machine), but I love this concept–making the dough well ahead of time and letting it rise slowly. Thanks for the giveaway!

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  37. I’d love to be able to make great bread, it’s such a staple in our house and something I cannot live without.

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  43. I used to bake bread regularly and have fallen out of the habit. I think this cookbook would really encourage me to start again!

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