Bread Illustrated: A Step-By-Step Guide to Achieving Bakery-Quality Results At Home

In this comprehensive cookbook, America’s Test Kitchen breaks down the often intimidating art and science of bread baking, making it easy for bakers of all skill levels to create foolproof breads, rolls, flatbreads and more at home. Each master recipe is presented as a hands-on and reassuring tutorial illustrated with six to 16 full-color, step-by-step photos. Organized by level of difficulty to make bread baking less daunting, the book progresses from the simplest recipes for the novice baker to artisan-style loaves, breads that use starters and more complex project recipes. The recipes cover a wide and exciting range of breads from basics and classics like Easy Sandwich Bread and Fluffy Dinner Rolls to interesting breads from around the world including Lahmacun, Panettone and Fig and Fennel Bread.