The aim of this book is to show how easy it is to make wonderful breads from the UK and around the world. Once you have mastered the basics, you will be carried away with bread baking. This is a simple book because making bread is simple. Of course there are lots of variations, flavours, textures, shapes and colours to play with. There are lots of ways of turning the simple ingredients of water, flour, salt, sometimes a little fat, and a raising agent into the wonderful aroma-filled product we know as bread, though many would call it magic. Apart from the economics of baking your own bread,...