The Best New Bread Making eBooks To Read In 2025

Renowned baker Richard Bertinet brings bread right up to date with his hallmark straightforward approach to achieving the perfect crumb. Finalist for the Guild of Food Writers Specialist or Single Subject Cookbook Award 2020. 'If you only have one book about how to make bread, this should really be it.' Nathan Outlaw. 'All it takes to make bread is flour, water and salt. To make great bread, add a little Bertinet.' Pierre Koffmann. 'Richard never ceases to amaze me with his writing and effortless skills as a baker... whenever I am with him for a coffee, a bite to eat or teaching with him, I always come away with new knowledge...

a bread genius.' Angela Hartnett. 'The subtitle of this book is "show the dough who's boss" and, frankly, that puts it above most other baking titles straight away. Bertinet is a bread guru (this is his sixth book) and this is so calm and instructive, you'll be knocking out brilliant baguettes in no time.' Waitrose. Renowned baker Richard Bertinet brings bread right up to date with his hallmark straightforward approach to achieving the perfect crumb. Richard shares his expertise through every step of the baking process, including the different techniques of fermenting, mixing and working - never 'kneading' - the dough. Richard shows you how to make everything from classic and rustic breads to sourdough using different flours and ferments. Learn how to bake a range of delicious sweet and savoury recipes from Cornbread with Manchego Cheese & Chorizo, Saffron & Seaweed Buns and Green Pea Flatbreads to Chocolate, Pistachio & Orange Loaf and Cinnamon Knots. There are also options for gluten-free breads and the best bakes to improve your gut-health by experimenting with different types of flour. Finally, Richard shares ideas for cooking with bread for delicious tartines or mouthwatering Brioche Ice Cream. With stunning step-by-step photography, simple advice and helpful techniques throughout, Crumb will inspire and fill you, whatever your experience, with the confidence to 'show the dough who's boss'. * Online demos available at thebertinetkitchen.com *.

A comprehensive guide to the craft of baking bread, featuring more than 60 recipes filled with all the expertise and experience of the founder of Copenhagen’s Hart Bageri and former head baker at San Francisco’s Tartine. “Sourdough bakers have a serious contender for a new bread bible.”—Plate. “Richard Hart restores the heart to bread baking.”—Yotam Ottolenghi. Richard Hart Bread is the guide to the intuitive art of baking bread. By learning how to see, taste, touch, and adapt, readers can find their own way to making truly wonderful bread—from blistering sourdoughs to rich rye pan loaves and more.

Rather than focusing obsessively on precise formulas, Richard teaches both aspiring and seasoned bakers all his key techniques without holding anything back. Through gorgeous photography, explanatory videos accessed on page through QR codes, and thorough descriptions of methods, you’ll have all the tools you need to make great breads. Rich in stories and Richard’s boundless enthusiasm, this book will make you fall ever deeper in love with bread.

From the acclaimed baker and James Beard Award nominee, here is a master class on making perfect breads at home—from sourdough loaves and baguettes to bagels, pitas, tortillas, and pizzas. For Melissa Weller, bread is the foundation for every meal, an elemental ritual that leads to mouthwatering results. Bread is also inspirational—the taste of a brioche, and Weller’s obsession with perfecting it, made her fall in love with baking many years ago. Now, after years of working as the head baker at some of the country’s most celebrated restaurants, Weller shares her best recipes for consistently making the highest-quality breads.

Weller knows that baking is about precision and science, and here she gives you the tools to take your breadmaking skills to the next level. With detailed and accessible step-by-step instructions on techniques, equipment, ingredients, and flavors, Weller gives you everything you need to achieve beautiful and impossibly delicious results. Here are steps on how to create a simple baking schedule that allows breadmaking to seamlessly fit into your daily routine, how to weigh and measure ingredients, and how to make yeast and sourdough starters. Weller also shares her best tips on mixing, explains the finer points of fermentation, and lays out the basics of shaping and folding each type of loaf. Here too are extended recipes for what to do with the bread you bake, like Everything Bagel Tuna Crunch Sandwiches, Tacos with Pulled Pork and Salsa Ranchera, and Pizza Margherita. With more than seventy recipes, this is the essential book for making bread so excellent that it earns a place at the center of the table. Included are sections and recipes such as: •Bagels (Sourdough, Everything, Salt and Pepper, Pumpernickel Raisin, plus spreads to go with them) & Bialys •Flatbreads •Sourdough Loaves •Petits Pains •Sandwich Buns and Rolls •Baguettes and Ciabatta •Pizza and Focaccia.