Nancy Silverton's Breads from the La Brea Bakery: Recipes for the Connoisseur: A Cookbook

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All the recipes are in volume measures ( cups etc ) and in the imperial system (pounds and ounces) the instructions are detailed and very clear. She doesn't buy into flowery writing, she doesn't give long winded descriptions of how most customers don'... Read More

Each recipe is for at least two loaves so working your way through this book is a great way to make friends! This is one of the greatest books on sour dough i have read. My favorite is the underrated pain au levain which produces zero waste/discard. T... Read More

This book is a complete tutorial on sourdough bread from start to finish. The trick to sourdough is to get to know your starter and how it behaves.

My 1 year old white wheat starter is much healthier and more vigorous now that i follow her directions. The first recipe for a basic white bread takes an astonishing 30 10 to make your own starter, and another 20 to tell you how to make the dough and ... Read More

There are no quick roads to bread-making proficiency, says nancy silverton. Silverton offers step-by-step instruction without pretension and glossy pics.

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The recipes are virtually impossible for the home baker. All the recipes contain white flour!

Some bread masochists think difficulty is necessary to produce good bread. Try peter reinhart's the bread baker's apprentice and for rye and bagels, try ginsberg and berg's inside the jewish bakery. Ours was burnt bread and not even good. The author i... Read More

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Quality

I am new to baking breads and am excited about the prospect of being a good one

This is will use probably at least weekly good price for a nice product

The bread you can now buy at many grocery stores across the country with the la brea bakery name are terrible

Complicated timeconsuming but what a loaf of bread

Competitiveness

This book has nancys sourdough recipes and yeast recipes as well

I had seen nancys episode of chefs table along with her episodes on julia childs series and settled on this book

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This product had a total of 519 reviews as of our last analysis date on Sep 18 2023.