Bread roots + pedals

I just posted my Whole Wheat Oat Bread recipe.  But then, I decided that it was maybe not in depth enough.  Plus, my blog is looking a little emaciated, so another entry would help fill it out.  So, I decided to review a wonderful book that helped me in my early days of simple living and bread baking.

 

Brother Juniper's Bread Book by Peter Reinhart.  It is, to this day, one of my most favorite reads.  It has good basic bread making recipes and how to's.  When I first read this book, I borrowed it from my local library.  I started to copy the pages that I thought were helpful and had recipes that I liked.  Well, I guess I liked the entire book because I basically copied the whole thing cover to cover (yes, I eventually even copied the front cover!)  I just gave it away to a WOOF-ing intern, Anna, last year.  She came to spend the summer with us and is now baking oat bread with her friends at college and family when she is home.  Her dad loved my Whole Wheat Oat Bread so much when he came to visit, that he specifically asked her to get the recipe from me when she got home.  I don't think this book has such a recipe in it, but it has a good basic wheat bread recipe and really good tips on kneading, forming, oven prep and baking.

OK, gotta go, gotta pedal some bikes, or more like a bike.