Bernard Clayton's New Complete Book of Breads, 30th Anniversary Edition by Bernard Clayton

    • Categories: Bread & rolls, savory
    • Ingredients: bread flour; active dry yeast; dried milk; vegetable shortening
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Notes about this book

  • chawkins on June 13, 2013

    Notable recipes per 101 Classic Cookbooks: challah, dilly casserole bread, honey-lemon whole wheat, old Milwaukee rye bread, pane italiano, panettone, pepper cheese loaf, sprouted wheat bread, white breads, white bread with chocolate. Notabal recipes not in my new revised and expanded version: Dresden christmas fruit bread, grandma's oatmeal bread.

Notes about Recipes in this book

  • Buttermilk bread

    • hmckimmey on January 16, 2026

      Quick and easy, not to mention tasty!

  • Home Roman Meal bread

    • mjes on May 20, 2018

      The Roman Meal cereal is no longer available. One recipe to recreate it that I have found contains rolled rye flakes, regular rolled oats, rolled barley and oat bran in a 3:3:3:1 ratio. It works quite well but the original was wheat, rye, bran, and flaxseed, if my research is correct. Given that I've not had Roman Meal cereal in nearly 60 years, my memory of its flavor is faint, of its texture is a bit better. This recipe provided an enjoyable loaf with the rye-oats-barley mixture with a bit of flaxseed added ... but the gluten level needs to be raised a bit. I'll update this if I get closer to the original intent.

  • Honey-lemon whole-wheat bread

    • Joyceeong on July 12, 2017

      One of the loveliest whole wheat bread I've made. Soft and light with fabulous crumbs. Recipe calls for the dough to be refrigerated for at least two hours or overnight, but I have let the dough rise at room temperature and bake as usual. Also I have replaced the shortening with butter. I will definitely be baking this bread again.

  • Molasses wheat bread

    • radishseed on October 27, 2012

      This is a nice, soft-textured bread with a good wheaty flavor and a hint of molasses. I used butter instead of the shortening the recipe calls for. Twisting the dough before the second rise is an interesting technique, but it gives the final loaf an odd, lumpish shape.

  • Multi-grain bread

    • Fricky1 on October 24, 2024

      Page 197

  • Honfleur country bread (Pain de campagne Honfleur)

    • jenburkholder on June 06, 2024

      Exactly as promised - a simple but tasty wheat bread. Made good sandwiches and French toast.

  • Honey starter

    • hirsheys on May 23, 2020

      This starter worked great - it bubbled up gorgeously and even overflowed the container I put it in! After feeding it for a while, I finally got to use it in bread the other day, and it tasted great, too! An excellent starter. (3.26.20)

  • Sourdough oatmeal bread

    • termite on June 21, 2015

      My go-to sourdough recipe. Makes excellent sandwich loaf, toast, freezes well.

  • Cheddar cheese bread

    • loehmichen on December 31, 2019

      Delicious! Added 1/2 cup small diced onions sautéed in butter to the milk mixture as it was cooling. Used half all purpose flour and half bread flour.

  • Dilly casserole bread

    • Suzannefrc on April 26, 2026

      This bread was ridiculously delicious and so easy to make. I can’t wait to make it again. So good!

  • Butter-beer batter bread

    • Shelmar on September 05, 2019

      Pretty good.

  • Hana-banana-nut loaf

    • radishseed on August 22, 2013

      This recipe came out on the dry side when I baked it up as muffins. I may have overbaked them, or maybe it has something to do with all the coconut. Next time I would make the loaf as written, or err on the side of underbaking it as muffins.

  • Fresh strawberry bread

    • Frogcake on September 13, 2016

      This is an absolutely delicious moist bread. You could substitute raspberries for the strawberries.

    • twoyolks on June 04, 2020

      This barely had any strawberry flavor. Really just a hint. Otherwise it's unremarkable.

  • Lenora's yeast rolls

    • vickster on December 02, 2019

      I made these for Thanksgiving dinner and they are everything a roll should be - the perfect dinner rolls!

  • Almond-bran muffins

    • Suzannefrc on April 30, 2026

      Flavor is very nice, but texture is not quite right. Need to play around with the recipe

  • Lavash (Soft)

    • TaffyDeb on August 27, 2019

      Goes together quickly and makes a wonderful bread to go with any dinner, but most especially it goes well with Iskender Döner!

    • twoyolks on September 19, 2020

      This is quite quick and pretty easy to make. The technique with the wok is odd but it works. The problem is that the lavash itself is pretty bland because of the very quick rise.

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  • ISBN 10 0743234723
  • ISBN 13 9780743234726
  • Published Nov 04 2003
  • Format Hardcover
  • Language English
  • Edition 30th
  • Publisher Simon & Schuster

Publishers Text

First published in 1973, Bernard Clayton's The Complete Book of Breads immediately became a modern classic; under his guidance, a generation of home bakers was introduced to the seductive pleasures of baking and produced their first loaves. But new products and equipment revolutionized the kitchen, and these changes inspired Bernard Clayton's New Complete Book of Breads, which first appeared in 1987. With an electric mixer, a food processor, or a bread machine, and with faster-acting yeasts, anyone could produce home-baked loaves in a fraction of the time bread-baking once took. The availability of a wide variety of flours and specialty products, once found only in health-food and gourmet stores, opened up a world of possibilities. Clayton revised 200 of the original recipes and added 100 more with these new ingredients and equipment in mind.

Now America's best-loved bread-baking authority returns with the 30th anniversary edition of the New Complete Book of Breads, the definitive version of this baking classic. Clayton has written a new introduction, added a glossary, updated the sections on ingredients and equipment, and gone through every recipe, correcting and refining each one. The inviting new design keeps Clayton's explicit, easy-to-follow instructional format and makes the book easy to use.

In these pages, home bakers will find an extraordinary range of variety, nearly enough to supply a new bread a day for a year. There are wheat breads -- Honey-Lemon, Walnut, Buttermilk; sourdough breads; corn breads; breads flavored with herbs or spices or enriched with cheese or fruits and nuts; and little breads -- Kaiser Rolls, Grandmother's Southern Biscuits, English Muffins, and Popovers, to name a few. For the baker who observes the holidays with a fresh loaf there are Challah and Italian Panettone.

Offering classic recipes while making use of modern kitchen technology, this comprehensive volume is an indispensable reference for the novice or experienced home baker looking to make the best bread with ease.



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