***Baking Artisan Bread* provides an unintimidating, formula-based approach to baking bread at home. With step-by-step, photo-illustrated instructions, chef Ciril Hitz shows you how with just 10 formulas you can create more than 30 different breads.** After a full exploration of **the ingredients, equipment, and techniques of bread baking** , move confidently into the kitchen to bake a range of bread types with **easy-to-follow recipes for these doughs:** * Baguette * Ciabatta * Whole Wheat * Pane Francese * Pizza * Bagel * Pain de Mie * Challah * Brioche * Croissant Once you’ve mastered these staples, expand your repertoire with **variations on each formula**. Baguette dough yields a bouquet of **breadsticks** , buttery brioche becomes an elegant **fruit Danish** , challah transforms into delicately flavored **orange aniseed wheels** , and so on—deliciously. Baking bread is fun, but the fruits of the labor are often copious. Ciril comes to the rescue with some basic recipes that include **bread as a main ingredient** , including **bread crumbs** , **croutons** , **bagel chips** , **French toast** , and **bread pudding**. A second set of extras includes formulas to help make your bread creations sing, with **washes and glazes** as well as ideas for **sweet and savory embellishments** to guide your culinary creativity. With simple ingredients and most of the equipment needed already in the kitchen, **you’ll be filling your home with the heavenly aroma of baking bread** in no time!