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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Agreed: need a new editor,
By A Customer
This review is from: Bread Alone: Bold Fresh (Hardcover)
The book has many good features, and I've made some great breads with it. But it is very annoying to run accross silly errors that a half way decent editor should have caught. The worst mistakes are in proportions, which are obviously very frustrating (particularly if you've spent money on the expensive flours Leader incorrectly suggests are crucial). Other reviewers are correct that the number of pages could have been drastically reduced. Frustrating is the fact that while there is an enormous amount of repetition, some important aspects are given only cursory treatment: e.g., how to form the loaves, how to make breads from straight dough. Also annoying is his suggestion that you reuse plastic wrap. The fixation on temperature is too much as well. When my house is warm, it's warm, and when it's cool it's cool, and the bread does fine in both, although it moves faster the warmer it is. My book fell apart very quickly, too.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Inspiring, but unhelpful,
By Joseph O'Brien (Kentucky) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Bread Alone: Bold Fresh (Hardcover)
It's so sad to see such potential squandered for the sake of word count. If the authors had spent as much time on the accuracy of their writing as they do on the accuracy of the temperature and weight of their ingredients, this would have been perhaps one of the greatest bread books ever written. However, the combination of gross omissions, editorial blunders, and what I believe to be bad recipes is truly disappointing.Just a short taste of the mistakes I encountered: Please, don't waste your money on this book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good enough to suffer the BAD,
By Shirley G. Fien (Rochester, NY United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Bread Alone: Bold Fresh (Hardcover)
I discovered "Bread Alone" about five years ago and have been baking from it almost weekly over the period. I have greatly enjoyed creating breads using this book. My life has been made greater for the experience. However.....I agree with all the negatives so well discribed in other reviews. The 300 plus pages could be reduced to 50 with no loss of information. Many of the instructions are ambiguous,repetitious and confusing. There are mistakes. One specific example, pg 290 "Rose Levy Jewish Rye". Omitted the addition of fluid for the "Final Dough". The book should be edited.
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