title: The Bread Machine Cookbook VI: Hand Shaped Breads from the Dough Cycle (Nitty Gritty Cookbooks)
author:  Donna Rathmell German 
description: If it contains flours and grains, <b>Donna Rathmell German</b> has probably written a book about it! She is the leading expert on bread machine baking, and the author of many books on the subject, including <i>The Bread Machine Cookbook</i> series, <i>The Pasta Machine Cookbook, The Best Pizza is Made at Home</i> and <i>The New Book of Waffles and Pizzelles.</i>
zlib_text: If you wish to comment on the book or have found errors, it would be great if
  you let me know at:  
    
  
  
  [yeoldebreadblogge@yahoo.de](mailto:yeoldebreadblogge@yahoo.de)
  
  
  The book is currently available as ebook only. If you are a publisher, I would
  be thrilled by a suggestion or idea from you to get the material published as
  hardcover or paperback as well. Contact me at my personal E-Mail adress:
  
  
  
  
  
  [nils.schoener@gmail.com](mailto:nils.schoener@gmail.com)
  
  
  
  
  
  My blog is at:
  
  
  
  
  
  [http://theinversecook.wordpress.com](http://theinversecook.wordpress.com/)
  
  Nils Schöner, Münster, Germany, October 2010
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # BROT
  
  
  ### Bread notes from a floury German kitchen
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  © Nils Schöner, Germany, 2010
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # preface
  
  
  
  
  
  Why I wrote a book about bread.
  
  
  The easy answer is that I love bread. But there is always more to it when you
  venture into completing such a task. When we talk about bread, there seems to
  be a mutual agreement on what it i