Cookbook - Homemade Breads and Pastries Step by Step

It's good to get back to basics, and at the base of our diet is bread! This beautiful book details step by step and in pictures the techniques for knowing how to make your own bread (without a machine). The first chapter explains how flour and yeast work, how to make your own sourdough, the equipment needed, and tips to know to succeed. There follow a large number of recipes, always detailed step by step, from the most anticipated breads (white bread, wholemeal bread, cereal bread, baguette) to the most original (tomato bread, beetroot bread, spicy breads), without forgetting more fun breads (ciabatta, olive bread, hazelnut bread, bagels, pita bread, etc.),and breads without wheat flour and without gluten (rye bread for example). A chapter devoted to sourdoughs allows the cook to go a step further and thus be able to create all kinds of breads. Finally, this book gives the secrets to successful homemade pastries: croissants, pain au chocolat, pain aux raisins, brioches, etc.Photographs: Steve Painter