Sourdough Breads from the Bread Machine shows that the easiest way to make extraordinary sourdough loaves, rolls, biscuits, bagels, and more is with your bread machine.

Here are basic recipes using the various different types of flour, followed by an innovative collection of recipes combining the standard ingredients with interesting additions such as nuts, grains, sun-dried tomatoes, olives, herbs, spices and dried fruits. There's a section on different shaped breads, cakes and tea breads and even a useful chapter on what to do with all of those leftover bits of dough and bread.

Fresh ingredients capture the rhythms of nature throughout the year in this unique bread-machine recipe collection. There's a flavorful variety for every season and a specialty for every holiday, including Spring: Honey Yogurt Oat Bread, Poppy Seed Rings; Summer: Lemon Bread, Blueberry Oat Bread; Autumn: Raisin and Nut Bread, Pizza Dough; and Winter: Citrus Celebration Bread, Cinnamon Walnut Bread. New approaches to familiar fare include Whole Wheat Molasses, Honey Cornmeal, and Buttermilk White breads. Use the tasty Sourdough Starter recipe in eight different variations. There's even Prosciutto Bread, with the meat and cheese baked right into the loaf; Focaccia, a flatbread with tomato and herbs; and three varieties of bagel.

Bread may be the staff of life, but if it contains gluten it can trigger an allergic reaction, and even provoke serious digestive disorders like celiac disease. Consumers who love bread but must avoid gluten have long been at the mercy of mediocre products and high prices. With this timely cookbook, they can have their bread and eat it, too. Acclaimed author Analise Roberts developed these simple, foolproof recipes for the Zojirushi bread machine. Roberts' outstanding recipes range from simple and satisfying Basic Sandwich Bread to complex and scrumptious Golden Italian Bread with Raisins and Fennel. She also offers ethnic breads like Challah and Babka and seasonal delights such as the irresistible Holiday Breakfast Bread. Included are loaves, like Sundried Tomato Roasted Garlic Bread, that contain no eggs or dairy products.