The New Artisan Bread In Five Mintues A Day by Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe Francois
At the suggestion of several HPL staff members, I checked out this book. I was unsure whether my family would like the bread, given that I make bread almost every weekend from my great-grandmother's recipe.
Well, I only made half of the suggested recipe. On Sunday, I made a boule and a baguette. By Monday lunch, I had to pull out another batch of the dough to make another boule because my family had devoured the first one. I am using the last of the first batch to make pizza for dinner tonight.
I will definitely make a whole batch next time. And let me just add that my great-grandmother's recipe for bread, lovely as it is, takes 4 hours from start to finish. The Artisan bread recipe mixed up in about 5 minutes and only takes 45 minutes until it's out of the oven. (20 minutes to rise, 25 minutes to bake).
Reviewed by Amy