First let me say that I have waited or forgot to do this review for a while now. This is a wonderful book. I myself was given a bread machine by my wife many years ago, and I am always looking for new or different recipes. I will also let others know that a good feature on the machine I have is that I can do just dough only, so many recipes the first rise is done in the machine and saves time, especially when doing cinnamon rolls etc.…
Here you first get a set up if you are new to the whole bread machine experience. The author then takes you through the other basics you will need. Then as you start flipping through the pages find one that looks appealing to you and as Jackie Gleason said “And away we go”. Have at it and have fun creating new and fresh bread. There are also gluten-free recipes in this book as well.

Lots of interesting sounding recipes that have inspired me to use my breadmaker more often, as once you get into the habit it is not difficult and very satisfying.

3.0 out of 5 stars
TITLE: Re-published recipes from 2009 Breadmachine Bible; UK publisher uses some unfamiliar terminology; metric & Imperial measurements

Recipes in this book were developed prior to 2009, so a lot here is outdated, but the recipes are still good if you are looking for a well-rounded assortment.

But are you looking for a book with new ideas, using the latest and greatest ideas, equipment and ingredients? Looking for a creative thrust to augment your older bread machine books? Or, are you new to the bread machine world and looking for quality, reliable and dependable bread recipes? You need to answer those questions before grabbing this book.

If you already own The Breadmachine Bible, first published in 2009, then you might not want to spend good money on this one…..All the recipes in this book are taken from there. Also, consider if you want a book that contains only recipes that were developed prior to 2009. That is almost a decade ago!

Granted, there are a lot of tried-and-true recipes in this book, and there are “keepers” here, but if you own other bread machine books, this may not be what you are looking for. If you just bought your first bread machine and have worked through all the recipes that came with the machine and are looking for more, this might be a perfect book for you. If you are on a tight budget, you may want to consider buying a used copy of The Breadmachine Bible, before springing for this re-release.

Also be aware that the book was first published in the UK, by Nourish, an imprint of Watkins Media Limited in London. So the weights and measures are listed first in metric, then in ounces, then in Imperial. I find it hard for my eyes to settle on the measurement I’m most familiar with. Here is an example of how the quantity is shown for each ingredient : 350ml/12fl oz/1 ½ cups water.

Terminology is also a bit different from what you might find in the US. You will see: Strong wholemeal/wholewheat, granary/mixed grain, soft grain white, 500g/1 lb 2oz packet white bread mix, strong white flour, thick set honey, clear honey, kibbled wheat, cobb, and many more. Terminology may through you off your stride, but with some thought and maybe an internet search, you will be able to interpret easily after a while.

I’ve been baking bread in my bread machine for about 15 years and I always wished I had a book like this one, all the good recipes you need in one book. Great variety, I just wish every recipe had a photo.

A lovely collection or recipes and pictures with some different suggestions for interest as well as traditional recipes made easy to follow

I am so excited to find a bread machine cookbook that had a section on gluten-free. All my older ones were written before people were seeking out how to make them. Being able to use a bread machine with the perfect environment maintained for you is something I really appreciate.

I received a free electronic copy of I Love My Bread Machine: More Than 100 Recipes for Delicious Home Baking by Anne Sheasby from NetGalley for my honest review.

First of all who doesn't love a great slice of homemade bread. I don't eat a lot of bread because of the carbs of course but I still love it on occasion. If I am going to have bread I want a nice fresh loaf of homemade bread and I will even bake it for my son to take for sandwiches to school. I do cook Gluten free which this book included recipes for. My only wish is for more Gluten free recipes.

Purists view bread making as an art. They find the process of making bread by hand therapeutic and a form of creativity. Then there's the rest of us. For the rest of us we want the delightful smells and yummy taste of a fresh made loaf of bread but just don't have the time. This is where the bread machine comes into play. I L-O-V-E my bread machine.

In Anne Sheasby's book, she provides readers with easy to make and very informative recipes. She has even included some Gluten-free recipes. (By the Fresh Herb Gluten Free bread is to die for.) This is a great recipe book for homemade breads.

Good book, very useful tips and recipes for using our bread machine. Very easy to follow, well set out.

Big thank you Netgalley for letting me review I love my Bread machine by Anne Sheasby and give an honest review. My bread machine is my best friend in my country kitchen and is always out and being used. So reviewing this lovely well illustrated book made me smile. You can't beat a warm kitchen smelling of fresh baked bread.....Plus, it never lasts long in my house!

The introduction to this book was brilliant and explained what flour(s) to use, yeast, sugars, salt, liquids etc then it went to bread making techniques, how to knead, re-shape your bread etc and then how to store your bread once cooked, if it lasts that long!
This book has over a hundred recipes for breads containing cheese, herbs, sun-dried tomatoes, seeds or olives etc. It even has recipes for flat breads and rolls and even cheese and bacon bread Plus coconut bread which was amazing. Focaccia, panini, croissants, naan, brioche, panettone, fruit breads and tea breads and even doughnuts! The recipes are just amazing and exciting! There's even a gluten-free section with a range of sweet and savoury breads and a section of quick, no-knead breads. Which I found brilliant. Hoorah at last!
Your bread machine has many functions and we don't usually used these. But this book shows you the uses of the machine has to offer; Like kneading, it can rise the dough which allows you to take the dough out to re-shape without using your bread making to bake the bread. So you can bake it in the oven which is brilliant.

I just loved this book throughout and I've just purchased this book, it will have a place in my kitchen.
5 stars from me and will recommend this book to friends who love to make bread etc.

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Review on Amazon UK.

I first learnt to make bread many years ago at an evening college and loved the the process of hand kneading and watching the dough rise and then pulling a fragrant freshly baked loaf from the oven. That warm yeasty smell in the kitchen is so homely and comforting. Since then I have acquired a bread machine and use it to make perfectly good basic white and wholemeal bread and dough for pizza and dinner rolls. But I have not really experimented with making different types of bread. Since browsing this book all that is about to change. There are so many exciting recipes that I just have to try out. Over a hundred recipes for breads containing cheese, herbs, sundried tomatoes, seeds or olives, recipes for all manner of flat breads and rolls. Foccaccia, panini, croissants, naan, brioche, panettone, fruit breads and teabreads. The list is extensive and exciting! There is even a gluten-free section with a range of sweet and savoury breads and a section of quick, no-knead breads.

Not all of the recipes can be baked in your bread machine but the machine can be used to knead and rise the dough, allowing you to then shape it into braids or cobs or rolls and bake in the oven. There are some photos of the breads in the book, although there is not one for each recipe which I would have preferred. The introductory section of the book discusses the various ingredients and processes involved which will be useful for those new to bread making. Some trouble shooting tips for those new to bread machines might also have been a useful addition.

So far I have baked the caraway cheese loaf which turned out well and was rapidly consumed by the family and the garden herb bread recipe was also delicious and a joy to eat with homemade tomato soup. Next on my list to try is the Greek black olive bread and the lemon, blueberry loaf. Yum!

I received an electronic copy of this book to read and review from Netgalley and found the format easy to use on my iPad propped up on the kitchen bench next to the breadmaker. I liked the book so much that I have also ordered a hard copy of the book to add to my collection of bread books.

I have a bread machine and all I seem to get out of it is a brick shaped like a loaf - so I hoped that I could find what I was doing so horribly wrong with this book. Unfortunately, I found this to be very confusing and with several instances of very confusing instructions.

Right from the beginning, we get instructions such as "Bread machines come in many varieties so do you research to find which is best for you." Except that we don't get any guidelines of what would be best and what to look for; we do get what various machines do but not why one would be better than another or whether features are useful or not. As well, there's a section about bread machine recipes trouble shooting - and all we're told is to use the manufacturer's instructions - which mine doesn't cover "brick like loaves" unfortunately. I 'what went wrong' section would have been invaluable.

Also problematic were ingredients. I always find it helpful when cookbooks give us actual brands so we can track them down or order them online. For the bread machine, it suggests you use 'strong types of flour' - which I couldn't find at my local supermarket. I saw a few very expensive imported strong flours online at Amazon - but I'm wondering if it is called something else in the North America? Several terms throughout the book weren't in US wording/standards though most were correctly translated into North American measurements. I'm assuming the author is British.

The layout is clean and recipes easy to read. Some pages have two recipes while others have one. Each recipe is monocolored, with bold titles, bold faced ingredient lists, and then paragraph form steps. Perhaps about half of the recipes come with images. The steps are fairly thick paragraphs rather than numbered short steps - so they can be frustrating to go through and find where you were with each action. Many don't have serving size, tips, descriptions, or any kind of info with the recipes. The photographs that are there are professional done and often full page.

There is a large variety of recipes - from donuts and muffins to all kinds of different breads. One big indicator that this is originally a British book is that there is a whole section of teabreads and tea-time treats. A nice addition is gluten free recipes. Of note, many recipes will call for you kneading the loaf separately - it's not a 'drop the ingredients in and forget it' type of cookbook. Beside the introduction detailing bread making info, there is only an index at the back.

Sadly, the recipes I tried still came out like bricks - even with the expensive 'strong flour' I had shipped from Amazon. I guess I'll have to give up on my bread machine.

People looking for a bread making recipe book need look no further than, “I Love My Bread Machine”. It has a number of great bread making recipes, most of which I have not seen published anywhere. The book was obviously written by a Brit since some of the ingredient names, like castor sugar or fine grain white sugar in the US, are of UK origin. All recipes in the book are converted into US measures.

Although the book’s title indicates that this is a bread machine recipe book, I found that a large number of recipes used only the dough cycle of the bread machine. Final kneading and rise were done on the counter followed by oven baking. Oven heat settings are included in the recipe instructions for gas and electric ovens.

A number of the recipes called for powdered mustard and pepper. This is the first time that I’ve seen these ingredients called for in bread recipes. Unfortunately, as I write this using a library computer, I’m still without power at my home, the result of Hurricane Irma, and unable to test these recipes. But, I am curious as to what flavor mustard powder will add to a bread and will remedy my ignorance as soon as I am able.

As a recipe book, this volume is a success for the author. If you’re looking for a more basic treatise with explanations of the bread making process, however, then I recommend that you read Peter Reinhart’s excellent book, “The Bread Baker's Apprentice: Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread” first.

I Love My Bread Machine has recipes taken from the 2009 Bread Machine Bible.  There are of course plenty of updates and additions that make this book worthwhile.  There are a variety of whole grain recipes using specialty grains as well as a number of gluten free recipes.  I liked that it has a section specifically devoted to flat breads - pitas, naan, foccaccia (I tried the sundried tomato and olive foccacia and it came out quite good) as well as a large variety of breads shaped by hand.  From sandwich breads to cottage loaves to tea breads, I Love My Bread Machine has recipes that cater to a wide range of tastes.

This book has a lot of information that is good for cooks who want to learn more traditional bread shaping techniques.  It is a good choice for busy cooks who like a beautiful result but don’t have a lot of time to invest.  You have a lot of options when you are using a bread machine.   (If you don’t currently have one but are interested in trying one out, you can generally get a bread machine for around $10-$15 from local thrift stores; otherwise new ones aren’t very expensive online)  The only thing I didn’t care for was that some recipes (only a handful) called for bread machine mixes.  Those are very hard to come by.  I would have liked an alternate form of those recipes that didn’t require a mix.  Still when you consider both the number and the variety of recipes, I Love My Bread Machine is an excellent book.  It showcases the wide assortment of breads you can make quickly and easily with the help of a bread machine.

4 / 5

I received a copy of I Love My Bread Machine from the publisher and Netgalley.com in exchange for an honest review.

--Crittermom

I used to use my bread maker a lot. I don't know what happened (lack of time?) that caused me to stop using it. But this book was really inspiring (I see you pesto swirl bread) and it makes me want to dust off the ol bread machine again.
The recipes were written very clearly, and the pictures were very appetizing. The only thing I didn't like was the cover. It was a little blasé. I will probably be buying this for myself when it comes out!

Wow so many Innovative bread recipes to try with your bread machine..........

Everyone who loves homemade bread, but wants to save time, should invest in an automatic bread machine. And with that machine, most will want to purchase one or two good cookbooks with ideas and hints, as well as recipes to use in that bread machine. I Love My Bread Machine: More Than 100 Recipes For Delicious Home Baking, by UK author Anne Sheasby, is one of those cookbooks.

Sheasby has included very unique recipes for all different kinds of breads. Some are written to simply mix and bake in the bread machine, but many instruct you to make the dough in the machine and then shape and bake in the regular oven. Sheasby features a Pesto Parmesan Pull-Apart that turned out perfectly, and was instantly devoured. Another excellent bread that turns out well is the Cheese & Sesame Seed Cobb. There are basic loaves like the delicious Farmhouse Loaf and the Home-Style Wholemeal Bread. You can experiment with Scottish Baps, Naan Breads, and Pains au Chocolat.

Although her instructions are precise and tell you to put certain ingredients in different corners of the pan, I found that it was unnecessary – the ingredients just need to go in as directed by the bread machine manufacturer (most start with liquid, then flour, etc., layered with the yeast on top). There was no difference in the finished product whether I put certain ingredients in corners, or just threw them in. There are a few recipes (Marbled Chocolate Tea Bread, for one) that you mix in a mixing bowl on your counter and remove the kneading blade. Then you turn the machine to a bake-only setting (which none of my 12 machines seem to have), and bake your loaf in the machine. To my mind, that defeats the purpose of having the machine. Why take the time to mix the dough outside of the machine when the machine can do it for you? It takes no effort to put dough in a pan and bake it in the oven, so why bake something you’ve already mixed in a machine on the counter? The whole idea is to same time and clean-up by doing most of it in the machine.

All told, however, this cookbook contains excellent pictures, well-written instructions, an excellent variety of breads that will have wide appeal, and plenty of great ideas and helpful hints for successful use of the bread machine. It’s a great book that will most likely be used often.

Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.

The I Love My Bread Machine cookbook contains bread machine recipes with a slight British flair. You will find the recipes written using both Imperial and metric measurements.

You will find the following chapters in the I Love My Bread Machine cookbook:

Bread Basics
Basic & Everyday Breads
Basic & Everyday Rolls
Flat Breads
Quick Breads
Speciality & Festive Breads
Teabreads & Tea-Time Treats
Gluten-Free Breads

Some of the recipes you'll find include:

Basic Brown Bread
Cottage Loaf
Breakfast Rolls
Floury White Baps
Moroccan Flat Breads
Malted Fruit Loaf
Devonshire Splits
Pesto-Parmesan Pull-Apart
Marbled Chocolate Teabread
Iced Orange Teabread
Mixed Seed Loaf
Herb Olive Bread

You will find the color photos lovely and the recipes are written well.

Recommend.

Review written after downloading a galley from NetGalley.

I love my bread machine but was getting bored of the same while loaf. This book is fab for giving new ideas! Love the oat bread. Easy to read and easy to follow.

When I was growing up, my mom went through a phase of obsessing over her bread machine, making all kinds of standard and unusual breads in those funny rectangular loaves. They might look a little weird, but there's nothing like the smell of baking bread. I've fallen out of the habit in recent years and haven't used a bread machine in ages, but when I saw this book, I figured it would be a good way to start again.

There are indeed all sorts of tempting recipes in this book, from the sweet (Golden Gingerbread, Lemon Blueberry Loaf) to the savory (Pesto Whirl Bread, Greek Black Olive Bread), traditional (English Muffins, Sesame Bagels) to new (Garlic Bubble Ring, Orange and Cinnamon Brioche). There's even a whole chapter on gluten-free breads!

Unfortunately I have a major complaint. A large number of the recipes (I'd guess over 50%) use the bread machine to knead the dough, but then require you to do the actual baking in a normal oven. They sometimes ask you to do additional steps as well: mixing, shaping, coating, drizzling, brushing with egg, and even more kneading. What's the point of using a bread machine at all if you're still doing three-fourths of the work the old-fashioned way? You may as well just skip the machine step and use a traditional bread cookbook.

On the other hand, Garlic and Coriander Naan does sound delicious. Maybe this book will tempt me out of my laziness over baking after all.

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