Video Bread Trilogy

• VIDEO BREAD TRILOGY is a bread baking class that you take at home, in your spare time and at your own pace. Beginner through artisan. Learn right from the start!
• VIDEO BREAD TRILOGY contains three two hour DVD's.
• 1st VIDEO BREAD (112 min) - Learn how to make bread at home by hand.
• 2nd VIDEO BREAD MACHINES (119 min) - Rediscover your bread machine. Let it do the work for you.
• 3rd EARLY BIRD BAKING (118 min) - Learn breakfast baking at home.
• VIDEO BREAD (112 min) - Bread baking has become a lost art. A generation or two ago your mother or grandmother made bread for the family. Today we just don't know how anymore. We forgot!
• I would like to teach you how to make bread at home in your spare time at your own pace. Video Bread will show you how. Video Bread is a cooking class on video. It is step-by-step visual instruction. Like having a private tutor in your kitchen.
• In the first and longest segment, you will learn how to make a "basic" loaf of bread. A formula approach takes the magic and guess work out of the process. You will receive science and background information on yeast and flour and a good understanding of their function in bread baking.
• Once you know how to make a basic loaf of bread, we go on to make a variety of yeast products.
• In the second segment, we use different pans to shape the dough into buns, rolls, free form loaves and French and Italian bread. We treat the crust in a variety of ways.
• In the remaining segments we make: stone-ground whole wheat bread, caraway rye bread, cinnamon raisin rolls, pizza and a banana cream and apple pie. Pies have nothing to do with yeast, but a pie crust contains only four ingredients, is simple to make and some people have just never been shown how.
• The final segment is a summary/narrative on cost, source and nutrition. The viewer learns how to locate and purchase from food brokers, wholesalers and distributors. Nutrition is discussed in detail.
• VIDEO BREAD MACHINES (119 min) - Remember the thrill of making bread for the first time in your new bread machine? What happened? Did the generic shape and texture of loaves just get boring over time? Is your bread machine in the closet with your other kitchen gizmos or on the fast track to your next garage sale? It's time to rediscover bread machines.
• Video Bread Machines will show you how to make bread using a bread machine every bit as good as loaves made by hand. Bread machines are used as tools, to do the work of bread baking. Machines are used for mixing and kneading only. All baking is done in the oven. No more kneading by hand. No more clean-up or mess.
• Video Bread Machines is a cooking class that you take at home in your spare time and at your own pace. No previous baking experience is required. The video is visual step-by-step instruction. You will learn the "secret of yeast" - the key to all bread baking. How different types and combinations of flour affect the texture, taste, and size or density of breads. How to locate and purchase the finest ingredients while saving money.
• Video Bread Machines makes white bread, stone ground whole wheat bread, caraway/dill rye bread, sticky buns, pizza, a variety of multi grain loaves, French bread, Italian bread, sourdough bread, soft pretzels, buns, rolls, free form loaves. Also, treating the crust, using different types of yeast, fortifying loaves, making and keeping sourdough starter, adding seeds, braiding bread, using gluten, coloring loaves and more.
• EARLY BIRD BAKING (118 min) - What's better than hot, fresh, homemade sweet rolls for breakfast? Or honey buns right out of the oven? Did you know they are fast and easy to make at home?
• Early Bird Baking will show you how to make a variety of delicious breakfast baked goods. No previous baking experience is required. That's right. Even if you have never baked anything before.
• Early Bird Baking is a cooking class that you take at home, in your spare time, at your own pace. It is visual step-by-step instruction. You will learn the science - What goes on and why in the baking process. Yeast baking by hand and using a bread machine. When and why to use baking powder vs. baking soda. How to save money when purchasing ingredients.
• Early Bird Baking makes cinnamon rolls, raisin bread, sticky buns, honey buns, blueberry muffins, bran muffins, banana nut muffins, chocolate/chocolate muffins and coffee cake.
• Learn to make muffins ones a week and have them on hand for a quick breakfast. When you bake your own, you can choose to use ingredients that commercial bakeries might consider too expensive.
• Treat yourself and your family to better breakfast baked goods than you can buy. Start breakfast baking today!
• Artisan breads are all the rage today. They have foreign sounding names, healthy ingredients and a characteristic thick chewy crust. Everyone wants to make artisan breads. Just remember that the baker is the artisan, not the bread.
• If you work through my DVD series you will become an artisan bread baker. You will be able to take any loaf. Look at it. Look at the list of ingredients and go home and make that loaf in your oven. You will be able to use any combination of grains, add nuts, seed, cloves of garlic, olives or whatever you want to your loaf. You can use flax seed oil, molasses, eggs, milk, anything you want. You can start with a sour sponge. You can color the loaf by adding non flavored caramel coloring.
• A thick chewy crust can be made in your home oven. First, spray the loaf with cold water for 30 seconds when you  put it in the oven. Bake at high heat - 550 for half the time. Then bake at 350 for the remaining time. Leave the loaf in the oven at 270 for 20 minutes to dry out. Finally, take the loaf out of the oven and let it sit for a few hours to come to room temperature. Or eat it right then.
• Just remember that the baker is the artisan not the bread. There are no shortcuts to becoming and artisan bread baker. Last but not least. Bread baking is a craft. You will never know it all. There is always more to learn.
• All recipes are original and given on screen.
• Start baking today and may your bread rise to the occasion!
• Pictures from my VIDEO BREAD TRILOGY.















For a limited time, a bonus copy of VIDEO PIZZA 2000 is included at no charge. (see below)

VIDEO PIZZA 2000 (45min DVD)

Learn to make pizza at home - fast and easy.  Just the way you like it.  Thick crust or thin, mild sauce, zesty sauce, extra cheese, any and all the toppings you want.  Hot, fresh, out of your oven, in your home, in 20 minutes and for less than $2.  You can't beat that!

People of all ages love pizza and will enjoy learning how to make a pizza at home.  VIDEO PIZZA 2000 is simple and at the same time loaded with information and tips to make even the novice a pizza pro.  The straight forward approach is fool-proof.  Even children will learn how to make great pizza and kids love pizza.

VIDEO PIZZA 2000 runs 45 minutes in length and includes instructions on making bread machine pizza, freezing dough and making garlic bread.   VIDEO PIZZA 2000 is a single topic, short, focused video.   Makes a great program for home school, groups, organizations, etc.

Reviewed by - Library Journal

For Library Journal, Sheila S. Inter, GILS, Simmons Coll., Boston, writes:

"Do you like pizza? Do you long to make it at home but fear the result will be a big mess - not even as good as the dull stuff you get from your supermarket freezer?   This video is for you!  Steve Ryan furnishes a simple but excellent lecture-demonstration on pizza-making, complete with the little hints that prevent failure.  He takes his time demonstrating preparation of the dough and also discusses different combinations of toppings and cheeses, freezing techniques, and the alternative of using part of the dough for garlic bread.  He suggests ways to save time, by using canned tomato sauce and spice mixes, and money by buying ingredients in bulk, and explains the value of different pans (although he says no special pan is necessary) and advises ways to obtain them at minimal cost."

Ms. Inter concludes, "Ryan knows his pizza and is skillful at imparting his knowledge.  Recommended for public libraries and school library media centers in elementary and secondary schools."

Reviewed by - Booklist

For Booklist, Jeff Dick writes : 

Video Pizza 2000 -"Showing viewers how to get a 'from-scratch' pizza (with two-bucks' worth of ingredients) in the oven within 20 minutes is the goal of this culinary-instruction program.  Beginning with homemade crust preparation, a genial and effective chef shows how to 'make it how you like it - better than the pros' in clearly demonstrated steps.  Close-ups are carefully used for emphasis and visual variety, while graphics list the necessary ingredients and cooking utensils.   The need to knead is stressed, and a lesson on making garlic bread from unused dough is also provided.  Made to order for pizza-loving cooks who have the time and inclination to make their own pies."



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