Let's Bake Bread!: A Family Cookbook to Foster Learning, Curiosity, and Skill Building in Your Kids

"With 55 recipes for buns, brioche, focaccia, pizza, and sourdough"--Cover.

Publisher Marketing: Introduction: Why Bake Bread with Kids Tools of the Trade Core Ingredients: Flour, Yeast, Salt, and Water How Bread Is Made ENRICHED BREADS FOR BEGINNERS: Recipes to Engage the Senses, for Ages 3 to 7 Baking with Your Senses Cloud Bread Herbed Leaves and Snail Rolls Garlic Herb Butter Leaf Rubbings On the Run Energy Buns Almond Butter Fluffy French Milk Bread Raspberry Jam Sweet Dreams Bunny Bread Tea Ceremony Winter Warming Spices Bread Hot Chocolate with Homemade Whipped Cream Paper Snowflakes Cookie Bread (Conchas/Melonpan) Springtime Rainbow Bread Watercolor Painting SEASONAL BREADS: Recipes to Connect with Nature, for Ages 7 to 10 Keeping a Baker's Notebook Anytime Adventure Bread All-Year Herb Croutons Spring/Summer Focaccia Mosaic Garlic and Herb Dipping Oil Learning About Flowers Spring Wildflower Seed Twists Beet and White Bean Dip Learning About Seeds Spring Pressed Flower and Herb Crackers Pressed Flowers Summer Ficelles with Cherry Tomatoes Homemade Mayo Summer Pizza with Tomatoes and Pesto Mortar and Pestle Pesto Summer Bread Salad (Panzanella) Gabe's Vinaigrette Fall Focaccia with Apples, Pecans, and Cheddar Apple Exploration Fall Flatbread with Potato and Brussels Sprouts Roasted Garlic Fall Herbs Crackers Caramelized Onion Dip Winter Olive and Lemon Focaccia Gabe's Lemonade Citrus and Herb Scavenger Hunt Winter Squash and Orange Zest Fougasse Central Valley Dukkah BREADS AROUND THE WORLD: Recipes Exploring History and Culture, for Ages 12 to 14 Timeline: The History of Bread Crackerbread Corn and Wheat Tortillas Herb Sauce Corn in the Americas Pita Bread in Ancient Egypt and Greece Naan Garlic Butter Lentil Cakes Ode to Bread Apple Cider Barm Bread Fresh Butter Middle Age Celtics' Love for Bread Rye, Wheat, and Corn Bread Potato Bread Staple Ffoods in Ddifferent Ccultures Brioche Let Them Eat Cake! Wonder Bread Make Your Own Breadcrumbs Whole Grain Sandwich Loaf Whole Grain Innovations SOURDOUGH BREADS: Recipes Based In Math and Science, for Ages 12 and Up Baker's Percentages and Mathematics Sourdough Starter Put Your Sourdough Starter to Use Simple Sourdough Tinned Loaf Intermediate Dutch Oven Sourdough Oatmeal or Multigrain Sourdough Is It Nutritious? Sprouted Quinoa and Chia Sourdough Wholegrain Miche Create Your Own Baker's Mar Biographical Note : Bonnie Ohara is a self-taught baker and homeschooling mother to three children. Ohara runs Alchemy Bread, a cottage bakery based in her home in Modesto, California, where she also teaches bread baking classes. She is the author of Bread Baking for Beginners, which was published in 2018. Find her on Instagram @alchemybread. Review Quotes : "Bonnie Ohara's teaching ignited my own love of baking. And with her new book, Let's Bake Bread! , I'm able to pass along that passion to my kids! Her recipes are filled with creative ways for parents to engage their kids and create lasting memories of time spent together with delicious results." -- Jenna Fischer, actress and podcast host Brief Description : "In the long-awaited follow-up to her first book Bread Baking for Beginners (more than 130,000 copies sold), baker Bonnie Ohara offers the ultimate guide for baking with your kids, with a delicious array of kid-friendly recipes and extracurricular lessons on history, seasonality, culture, and more. In Let's Bake Bread!, Bonnie Ohara draws on her expertise as a professional baker and homeschooling mother of three children to teach parents how to turn baking bread into an activity for the whole family, with kid-friendly recipes and teachable moments throughout. Organized into chapters geared towards specific age groups, ranging from ages 3 to 16+, each section presents age-appropriate recipes and lessons to explore while practicing the art of bread baking-all with delicious results. Recipes for Fluffy Milk Bread and Sweet Dreams Bunny Bread are made with forgiving, enriched doughs that allow for sensory play for little ones; middle-aged kids can make a Summer Focaccia or a Winter Squash Fougasse and explore themes of seasonality and food systems; recipes geared towards pre-teens focus on breads from the globe, including Naan and Cider Barm Bread; and older kids or skilled bakers can learn the science of sourdough, with recipes for a Simple Tin Loaf and a Sprouted Quinoa Chia Bread. Annotations throughout the recipes give cues for parents to keep their children engaged and curious and lend pointers for taking bread baking skills to the next level, plus suggestions for additional activities and reading to continue the fun even after baking is done"-- Review Quotes : " Let's Bake Bread! shows us how to bake up a community, one family at a time. Bonnie's foundational skills, thoughtful recipes, and encouraging guidance will inspire you and your kids to turn on the oven." -- Martin Philip, baker and author of Breaking Bread Review Quotes : " Let's Bake Bread! is stunning, inspiring, and wildly doable. Bonnie's guidance brings the magic of bread, not only into your kitchen, but into your relationships. You'll love it."-- Kendra Adachi, New York Times bestselling author of The Lazy Genius Way and The Lazy Genius Kitchen Review Quotes : " Let's Bake Bread! offers more than just delicious bread recipes--it's a playbook for making the most of our time with our kids in the kitchen. Bonnie's insights and advice throughout each recipe nurture learning, patience, and observation through making a simple loaf of bread. As Bonnie says, "Sensory memories stick!" So get in the kitchen with the kiddos, mix some dough, and let's bake bread."-- Maurizio Leo, author of The Perfect Loaf: The Craft and Science of Sourdough Breads, Sweets, and More Review Quotes : "Bonnie is an exceptionally talented baker and mother that makes baking fun, approachable, and comforting. I have been following her journey for years and have admired how dedicated and passionate she is to her children through the lens of bread baking--a skill that she has mastered and cleverly uses as a learning tool to elevate the growth of her family." -- Bryan Ford, author of New World Sourdough Publisher Marketing : Celebrate the joy of baking together with this unique family cookbook. Written by the bestselling author of Bread Baking for Beginners , who is also a homeschooling mother of three with a keen take on how to teach children useful skills, Let's Bake Bread! is filled with foolproof recipes that will turn kids into confident bakers and helpers in the kitchen. Start with an easy-to-handle cloud dough, and your youngest will soon be making Snail Rolls and On the Run Energy Buns (all the while improving their fine motor skills). Graduate to adventure dough and kids will learn about eating seasonally while making pizza, focaccia, and flatbreads. Breads like pita, naan, and conchas highlight lessons about cultures around the world. Culminating for kids twelve and up is the holy grail for all home bakers: the simple science of sourdough. What better or more delicious way to spend quality time together? Review Citations: Library Journal 11/01/2023 pg. 71 (EAN 9781648290572, Hardcover) - *Starred Review

Format: Hardcover | Pages: 248 | Publication Date: 2023-10-17