The Breadman's Healthy Bread Book

Its a great book - I returned the bread machine but kept the book - it works fine for hand made bread - and it gives the recipe in smaller quantity than you see in most cook books. One loaf at a time is all I need and just cutting some 'regular' bread recipes does not always work. This is a good investment for single people or those who like home made bread but just one loaf at a time. When it has no added chemicals it tends to mold so I needed the smaller one loaf at a time version. This book has several that are great - yumm I have not made any for a while and writing this makes me hungry... which one to try next ... last time I made the regular white bread and turned it into cinnamon rolls rather than a loaf. ummm rye bread - or cinnamon rolls or any number of others.. well worth the minimal cost.

Nutritious and DeliciousAlready feeling Healthier and RobustThis Bread Book is a MUSTBut how much and in what manner that bread is made, and/or spent, is NoneYa

This is a great book, and I've been using it for about a month to make a lot of different types of whole grain bread in my bread machine. I have a West Bend Hi-Rise Breadmaker which has a 2.5 lb capacity, so the 1 lb and 1.5 lb recipes are a bit small for my machine, but I've had good success with doubling the 1 lb recipe (except for the yeast and salt, for those I use the same as the 1.5 lb recipe otherwise it's too much), and setting the machine to whole wheat (for any of the "Elite" whole grain recipes), light crust, 2 lb.One warning before you start, since this is a health food book, you need to get a lot of the healthy ingredients at a health food store, and expect to make a $100+ shopping trip before starting. I found almost everything at Whole Foods Market, many ingredients I've never seen before, such as liquid lecithin (found near the vitamins), barley malt syrup, and walnut oil. Other ingredients I bought were sesame seeds, caraway seeds, whey protein powder, vital wheat gluten, quinoa, millet, spelt flour, potato flour, oat flour, soy flour, buckwheat flour, rye flour, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, dates, raisins, walnuts, pecans, sesame oil, molasses, wheat germ, wheat berries, oat bran, wheat bran, poppy seeds, spices like dill, and of course whole wheat flour. I didn't buy the powdered egg substitute as it seemed to be mostly soy flour, and I know that flaxseed meal is a good powdered egg substitute and I had that already. Many of these items are expensive but once you stock up, you can make all kinds of really good tasty healthy bread without having to run back to the store a lot. Lately I only keep running out of the whole wheat flour and that's available at any grocery store.The last two sandwich type breads I made were Dill Rye Bread and Quinoa and Sesame Seed Bread, and those were excellent. There are a lot of others like this I plan to try. The Health Nut Bread was good too, with sunflower seeds, also good for sandwiches. I do warn about the recipes that look like sweet breads, such as Fruit and Bran Muffin Bread and Whole Grain Banana Date-Nut Bread. I made both of those and they came out ok, but they are NOT sweet breads like your typical muffin or banana bread; they taste like regular whole wheat bread with a slight hint of fruit; fine as toast with breakfast but not like a dessert. When I want sweet bread or muffins I'll make a regular recipe in the oven with baking powder/soda instead of a whole wheat yeast bread (or use a non-whole-wheat sweet bread recipe in the machine from another book), but of course that's not as healthy.A note for the gluten haters: I don't understand the latest "gluten-free" craze at all... it seems like half the country all of a sudden came up with a new allergy and phobia to a natural part of wheat (no, it's not some sort of poison), and now everything from fruit to furniture needs to be labeled "gluten free" or people won't buy it. If you believe this nonsense or actually do have a real medical issue with gluten, then look for a gluten-free cookbook instead of this one. For the rest of us, just remember that gluten is what makes dough stick together and rise properly as bread, and since whole wheat flour has much less gluten than white flour, you have to add a tablespoon or so of gluten flour to make up for the difference, otherwise the bread will not rise and it will be dry and dense.

Tons of information. Perfect for the healthy bread enthusiast!

The 90s called and said they made a bread machine book. My guess is this was actually written as a pamphlet to be included with Breadman bread machines a couple decades ago. Creative editing expanded the pamphlet into a book. The material is dated and there is a lot of words you can skip as they are entirely redundant all over again. Every single recipe has a paragraph telling you to add the ingredients in the order listed or reverse if that's what your machine requires. As others reviewers have stated each recipe is split in to two pages for two loaf sizes. Besides that, many of the recipes are for whole wheat based breads which is what I was looking for, although some of the ingredients are difficult to find (like powdered whey) or are now might be called something else. I paid $6 for a new book including delivery so I wasn't too disappointed.

I love this book and my Breadman ultra. I have made multigrain, french, wholewheat and an italian herb breads that have all turned out great, yummy and healthy. I'm diabetic so I have craft the carbs in my meals and this book seriously helps me do that.I gave a copy of the book to a friend who's son is diabetic and they are enjoyng the bread as well as making it.

Books with healthy bread machine recipes can be hard to find. . . this is one of the best! There are two "categories" of recipes: the "transitional" recipes still contain some ingredients best avoided; the other recipes are the best nutritionally.The recipes are listed for both 1 and 1 1/2 lb loaves, and are easy to make. The onion-thyme bread is one of my favorites! There is also a recipe for hand-twisted, whole wheat pretzels that is really good too.If you're concerned about the types of foods you put in your body, and love warm, fresh breads of all types, get this book!

Oh my goodness at the bread we have made and there are many more recipes ahead. The book arrived quickly and in good condition. My husband has weak kidneys and should not be eating salt. Now I keep that bread machine popping out bread he can eat. Recipes for 2 sizes of loaf. Healthy, dependable recipes.