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Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day: 100 New Recipes Featuring Whole Grains,
Fruits, Vegetables, and Gluten-Free Ingredients / by Jeff Hertzberg and Zo Franois; photography by Mark Luinenburg. (Thomas Dunne Books, 2009) Hardcover, 324 p. ISBN 9780312545529
How can you make Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day? It takes longer than that on the day you mix the ingredients, but you make enough for several loaves at once and refrigerate it. After that, taking enough dough out to form one loaf takes little time. Let it rise. Let it bake. Take it out of the oven, and you have spent about five minutes of effort and done something else while you wait. You can also make up loaves and freeze them. It's fun to have several kinds of bread in the freezer.
Jeff Hertzberg and Zo Franois introduced this concept in their first book, Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day. Those recipes used refined flours and sugars. This one uses a variety of whole-grain flours, fruits, nuts, and vegetables. For the gluten-free recipes, it relies on corn starch and flours from tapioca and sorghum.
The recipes in Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day make many kinds of bread quite unlike anything that grocery stores, or even many bakeries, carry. And yet, even with all the fruits, vegetables, and nuts, all of the breads are less expensive than store-bought breads. Those who must eat gluten-free breads testify that these breads are not only cheaper, but vastly superior in taste and texture.
Even beginning bakers report great success with Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day. The recipes require no kneading or any other techniques that can only be learned by trial and error. They make breads (or buns or pizza dough, or other variants) that smell wonderful while baking, look beautiful fresh from the oven, and taste great. All of that, and they're good for you, too! All-Purpose Guru Alert features one carefully selected bargain book every day. Visit often, and don't forget to check the past offers. But supplies are limited, so don't wait.
