Making Artisan Breads in the Bread Machine unlocks all the potential of your bread machine, revealing its surprising versatility and amazing breadth. Delicious, comforting, and authentic artisan breads are expensive to buy at your grocery store or local bakery. Now you can use your bread machine to make them at home for a fraction of what store-bought breads cost. Veteran chef, baker, and food writer Michelle Anderson has put dozens of models and sizes of bread machines through their paces and knows better than anyone what a bread machine can do. Would you like a boule or a baguette with your next picnic or brunch? Would the delectable aroma of a just-made ciabatta or focaccia create the perfect atmosphere for your next pasta supper? Michelle shows you the fastest and easiest ways to make these and many other rustic and comforting breads. Her recipes include breads made from start to finish in the bread machine and others that, because of their shape, are started in the bread machine and finished in a regular oven—the latter still a much easier method than starting from scratch on a counter-top. Rugbrod (Danish rye bread), Irish Soda Bread, San Francisco Sourdough, German Peasant Bread, Pane Siciliano…there's a wide and wondrous world of amazing breads to discover in the pages of this book. You'll even find chapters on cheese breads and herb breads, and an especially delicious one on sweet breads to have for dessert or with your morning coffee. Millions of people are rediscovering the simple, soul-warming pleasures of freshly made, home-cooked bread. It's not a lot of work at all—if you own a bread machine and have a copy of this incredibly inventive and eminently reliable cookbook.

Table of Contents:
Preface PART I Bread Demystified INTRODUCTION Getting Started What Is Artisan Bread? Why Bake Your Own Bread? How to Make Artisan Bread in a Machine The Recipes in This Book CHAPTER ONE All About Bread Understanding the Breadmaking Process 1 Basic Ingredients Extra Ingredients CHAPTER TWO Making Artisan Bread Using a Bread Machine How Does a Bread Machine Work? Bread Machine Cycles How to Choose a Bread Machine Other Tools You Will Need Troubleshooting PART II The Recipes CHAPTER THREE Traditional Loaves Butter Whole Wheat Bread Lavender Honey Whole Wheat Bread Simple Hearth Bread Buttermilk Bread Amish Milk Bread Five-Grain Crusty Loaf Beer Bread Golden Honey Maple Bread Bran Molasses Bread Iceland Brown Bread Russian Black Bread Irish Brown Bread Pretzel Bread Pumpernickel Rustic German Rye Traditional Rye Bread Swedish Rye Oatmeal Kefir Bread Spelt Bread CHAPTER FOUR Classic Crusty Loaves Baguettes Whole Wheat Baguette Batarde Pain de Campagne Honey French Bread Golden Oat Bran Bread Sesame French Bread Swirl Ciabatta Pagnotta Tuscan Bread Pan Gallego Dutch Boule Circle Bread Classic Cottage Loaf Cracked Wheat Seed Bread Country Loaf Vienna Bread Rustic German Bread CHAPTER FIVE Sourdough Breads Sourdough Bagels Sourdough Baguettes Sourdough French Bread Traditional Sourdough Bread San Francisco Sourdough Bread Soft White Sourdough Bread Whole Wheat Sourdough Bread Oatmeal Sourdough Bread Pumpkin Sourdough Bread Sweet Citrus Sourdough Bread Light Sourdough Rye Dark Chocolate Rye Bread CHAPTER SIX Sweet Breads Brioche Challah 1 Stollen 1 Portuguese Sweet Bread Anadama Bread Pumpkin Pie Bread Hawaiian Sweet Bread Panettone Sweet Cranberry Bread Tsoureki Dark Chocolate Bread CHAPTER SEVEN Flatbreads, Rolls, and Bagels Grissini Soft Breadsticks Fougasse Classic Pizza Dough Bagels Focaccia French Rolls Crusty Sandwich Rolls Multigrain Kaisers Tender Flatbread Dutch Crunch Bread (Tiger Bread) CHAPTER EIGHT Seed, Nut, and Fruit Breads Barmbrack Bread Raisin Pecan Bread Whole Wheat Date Bread Cranberry Honey Nut Bread Pain aux Noix Muesli Bread Hazelnut Fig Bread Walnut Cob Spiced Apple Bread Sunflower Seed Bread Seeded Whole Wheat Bread Farro Whole Wheat Bread Whole Wheat Flaxseed Bread CHAPTER NINE Herb Breads, Cheese Breads, and Other Flavored Breads Herb Butter Bread Sour Cream Herb Bread Bulgur Herb Bread Semolina Thyme Bread Cardamom-Scented Bread Potato Herb Bread Black Pepper Parmesan Bread Cheddar Beer Bread Cheese Bacon Bread Cheesy Mustard Loaf Garlic Mozzarella Bread Caramelized Onion Bread Wild Rice Bread with Pumpkin Seeds Green Olive Country Loaf Mediterranean Loaf Cinnamon Swirl Bread Acknowledgments About the Author Index