The Bread Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum

New theme, and a new book - The Bread Bible. This one is, not surprisingly, all about breads.

It's a huge brick of a book (640 pages). I've owned my copy for years and I haven't really gotten around to using it until this spring, when I went on a major bread baking spree.

There are 7 chapters :

• Essential steps of making bread
• Quick breads (muffins, corn bread and scones)
• Flatbreads (pizza, pita, focaccia etc)
• Soft Sandwich loaves (think Wondabread)
• Hearth breads (=Artisan breads)
• Sourdough bread
• Brioche breads

All the recipes are very detailed and scientifically written with measurements in both grams, ounces and in volume. There is also a little table in the end of every recipe names "Dough percentage" stating the ratio between flour, water, yeast, salt etc in the bread. In other words, a great resource for all bread baking nerds out there!

Btw, the author has a blog: http://www.realbakingwithrose.com/ and she's also on Twitter: http://twitter.com/FlourRose