Instructions: Perfect Bread
Fun With Creative Shapes
by Betsy Oppenneer and this is just as good as her video of How To Conquer Bread Baking. I was very impressed at how clearly she explains how to easily shape doughs. I have always been very intimidated making braids and this explains it so clearly that I dont know why I havent tried it before. She covers many varieties of rolls ... her cloverleaf roll method is very interesting ... she also includes ropes, breadsticks, wreathes and braids. There are 30 varieties of the above shapes and even the explaination on how to glaze sweet bread. Another thing that really impressed me was the ease of locating a certain shape that you want to learn about ... go to the time listed on the back of the video and then just fast forward to that time on the vcr. This is a treasure of a video.

Here is another review from Leigh:
)My only complaint is that there were
)so many ideas that I will NEVER remember them all. I did have some bread )dough running while watching the video, and ended up doing her eight braid )bread; beautiful. She also had some useful tips on how to form the ropes )and letting them relax a few seconds to get them to cooperate. I will watch )it again as soon as I have the chance.

I think this is a very well thought out and put together video. There are so many varieties of shapes that it would take you almost a month to make them all. I was again impressed with Betsys ease of communication via this tape and how easy she makes the shapes. I especially like the timing on the back of both tapes so I can go to a particular time and get exactly what I want to learn.

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