Application Guide
Table Of Contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
- America’s New Bread Box
- Orientation
- Batterie de Cuisine: Know Your Bread Machine
- Making Bread
- Daily Breads: White Breads and Egg Breads
- White Breads
- Egg Breads
- One-Pound Loaves
- Pasta Doughs from Your Bread Machine
- Earth’s Bounty: Whole Wheat, Whole-Grain, and Specialty Flour Breads
- Whole Wheat Breads
- Rye Breads
- Specialty Flour Breads
- Multigrain Breads
- Gluten-Free Breads
- Traditional Loaves: Country Breads and Sourdough Breads
- Country Breads
- Sourdough Breads
- All Kinds of Flavors: Breads Made with the Produce of the Garden, Orchard, and Creamery
- Herb, Nut, Seed, and Spice Breads
- Savory Vegetable and Fruit Breads
- Cheese Breads
- Mixes and Some Special Breads Created from Them
- Stuffing Breads
- Circle, Squares, and Crescents: Pizzas and Other Flatbreads
- Sweet Loaves: Chocolate, Fruit, and Other Sweet Breads
- Breakfast Breads
- Coffee Cakes and Sweet Rolls
- Chocolate Breads
- Holiday Breads
- Express Lane Bread: No-Yeast Quick Breads
- Jams, Preserves, and Chutneys in Your Bread Machine
- Appendix 1 Bits and Pieces: Crumbs, Croutons, Crostini, and Toasted Appetizers
- Appendix 2 To Eat with Your Bread: Spreads, Butters, Cheeses, and Vegetables
- Appendix 3 Resources
- General Index
- Recipe Index
Holiday Breads for Entertaining
Aside from serving holiday breads toasted in the morning for breakfast or
with tea in the afternoon, you can incorporate them beautifully into elegant,
yet personal, family meals and entertaining. This is where your freezer will
come in handy—the breads can be baked up to a month ahead, frozen, and
then decorated and glazed just before serving.
Here are some ideas for how to serve holiday breads: Place
Easter loaves on a buffet table covered with a vibrantly colored tablecloth,
and surround the loaves with potted spring flowers (daffodils, crocus, narcis-
sus) and decorated eggs. Use lemon leaves to garnish. Decorate a Christmas
buffet table with pine boughs, twinkling white lights, bowls of glossy red ap-
ples, a basket of nuts for cracking, and giant bayberry-scented candles.
Breads can be displayed whole (with a gold ribbon tied around) or sliced and
arranged on silver trays with candied flowers and marzipan fruits.
You may have some of your own traditions for serving hol-
iday breads. Here are some of my menu suggestions.
Easter Sunday Brunch
Fresh Orange Juice & Cranberry Juice with Lime Wedges
Spiral-Cut Glazed Ham
Maple Mustard & Horseradish Cream
Spring Asparagus Tart
Creamy Cole Slaw
Bibb Lettuce with Oranges, Red Onions & Olives
A Variety of Easter Breads:
Kulich
Sweet Babka with Chocolate Swirl
Cardamom Easter Braid
Maritozzi Romani
Pasqua Cheese & Butter Curls
Coffee, Tea, Milk
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