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Sep 24 2005 - 9:04pm

Want to learn how to bake bread? Do it! It is about the cheapest, most enjoyable, most rewarding pastime I can think of.

I can't promise that these lessons will prevent you from making mistakes, because making mistakes is just part of learning (and something I still do all the time). But hopefully they'll give you some good ways of getting started and help you improve your understand of what is happening inside of your loaf.

  • Lesson One: Your First Loaf [1] - The place to begin. 
  • Lesson Two: Putting Something More in Your Loaf [2] - Once you understand the basic principles of bread, you can begin adding new things to your loaf to get different flavors and textures. 
  • Lesson Three: Time & Temperature [3] - Almost as important as what you put in your loaf is how you treat it while it is fermenting and baking. 
  • Lesson Four: Glazing [4] - Not as important as what you put in your loaf but still quite important is what you put on your loaf. 
  • Lesson Five: Ten Tips for Better French Bread [5] - A solid year of baking French Breads hasn't made me great at it, but I've gotten a lot better. Here are some of the tricks I've learned. 
Also, check out some of the tremendous lessons that community members have contributed:
  • Scoring Bread [6]
  • How to start a Wild Yeast Sourdough Starter [7]

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[1] http://www.thefreshloaf.com/lessons/yourfirstloaf [2] http://www.thefreshloaf.com/lessons/addingmore [3] http://www.thefreshloaf.com/lessons/timeandtemperature [4] http://www.thefreshloaf.com/lessons/glazing [5] http://www.thefreshloaf.com/lessons/tentipsforbetterfrenchbread [6] http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/31887/scoring-bread-updated-tutorial [7] http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/233