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According to old tradition: No matter whether you prefer wood or electric ovens - the long-standing "loners" Margret Merzenich and Erika Thier will help you to enjoy homemade baking with 60 traditional recipes and many tips from their wealth of experience. From oven-fresh farmer's bread to tarte flambe and yeast braids to snail noodles and flax wraps. You'll also learn how to build your very own oven in the garden with detailed step-by-step instructions. Atmospheric anecdotes and stories from the good old days round off the book and bring the tradition back to life. 128 pages

The ingenious way to perfect sourdough bread. Special tricks and precise recipes make baking bread a success even for beginners. Within a time window of 12 and 24 hours, all work steps are completed in just a few minutes. A normal oven and commercial flour are sufficient. Not even a kneading machine is necessary for successful baking results. Recipes for 60 classics such as rye bread, ciabatte, breakfast rolls or brioche. A comprehensive basic section explains the background and gives practical tips for baking in the most natural way. ~

Joy and a little pride. You can feel it when you open the oven and take out the fragrant, homemade bread. Baking bread is EASY, BEAUTIFUL! Provided you have GOOD RECIPES. So those that are sure to be successful and fit FOR EVERY TASTE and, above all, in EVERY EVERYDAY LIFE. Switch off and relax: while kneading, stirring, letting it restChristina Bauer meets all types of bread bakers in her baking courses: those who love quick breakfast rolls, those who love sourdough and those who would prefer not to knead at all. In her new baking book she presents 50 VERY DIFFERENT BREADS: with SOURDOUGH, from WHOLE GRAIN, with YEAST and OVERNIGHT COOKING, WITHOUT KNEADING, the CLASSICS and the very SPECIAL ones.FLOURY MATTERS: EVERYTHING IMPORTANT ABOUT INGREDIENTS But because baking bread is a little more than just kneading flour, salt, water and yeast (or not) and putting it in the oven, Christina has written down the most important BREAD BAKING BASICS: What makes a flour a good FLOUR. Can the bread come out of the oven or would you like it to stay warm for a while? What to do if the bread doesn't rise and is pale instead of airy, crispy and nicely browned. And which BREAD SPICES make my bread particularly delicious.STEP BY STEP TO YOUR OWN BREADFor many recipes, the individual steps are not only described in detail, but also illustrated. From her bread baking courses, Christina also knows where the biggest little traps lurk. And get them out of the way right up front with TIPS. So EVERYONE can BAKE THEIR BREAD WELL! And start the day on Sunday morning with fresh rolls. Or start the week with a hearty, home-baked rye bread.- 50 BREAD RECIPES for do-it-yourself bakers: with and without sourdough, for people who are quick at lightning speed, whole grain lovers, people who don't like kneading and everyone who likes to give their bread a lot of time- ALL BREAD- BASICS you need to know. Nothing more, nothing less!- lots of STEP-BY-STEP PHOTOS: this is how you'll definitely succeed- BAKING WITH SOURDOUGH explained very easily: so that you can let the dough rise with a clear conscienceSuccessful and tried and tested many times In any case, the recipes are like all of Christina's! 163 pages.

Baking cakes takes a long time? Not true at all! Christina Bauer proves this with over 50 simple cake recipes. Whether it's a birthday, Christmas or just in between with a coffee: the sweet delicacies for the mother, farmer's wife and successful baking blogger have to be really uncomplicated, successful and taste fantastic. She simply doesn't have time for kitchen experiments! That's why Christina has developed her own baking method that inspires thousands of fans.The loving design with fantastic photographs by Nadja Hudovernik makes Christina's baking book a wonderful gift idea. Look forward to delicious recipes with which you can quickly bake the right cake for every occasion:- Simple, uncomplicated, quick: over 50 delicious cake recipes to bake yourself- We bake with ingredients that everyone knows and that most people have at home- Guaranteed success: tried and tested recipes for beginners and experienced bakers- With baking ABCs and information about basic dough and baking ingredients- Memorable step-by-step photos with all the important stepsWANT TO GO FROM BAKING POV TO CAKE BAKING PROFESSIONAL IN A SNAPStand in the kitchen for hours? That was once! Using a handful of ingredients that you are guaranteed to have in your pantry, you can conjure up fragrant cakes, tarts and roulades in just a few steps. With the little ABC of baking, useful information about sponge, shortcrust and sponge cake dough and lots of helpful tips and tricks, every cake will be a hit! Whether it's a quick bundt cake, apple cake or fruity cranberry slices, tempting chocolate cubes or strawberry cake: you're sure to get a unanimous Mmmmmhhhh from your guests and loved ones. And the best thing: Thanks to these recipe ideas, there is more time to enjoy together!Christina has already won countless hearts with her quick bread recipes. No wonder, in Baking with Christina she shows how you can prepare fresh bread yourself in just 10 minutes! Whether bread, cakes or tarts - baking with Christina is fun!

​Legends were born in 1952 - the cult film 'Casablanca' was released in German cinemas, the running prodigy Emil Zátopek dominated the Olympic Games and Hemingway's 'The Old Man and the Sea' was published. And the most successful German baking book gets a new edition, which has had a permanent place in German kitchens for decades: 'Backen macht Freude' has always been used or passed on. No problem if the well-kept copy falls apart after 63 years: now there is the original reprint from 1952 with the 240 original baking recipes and nutritional basics. 160 pages.This is pure nostalgia!

BAKE YOUR OWN BREAD, PASTRIES AND SWEET DELICACIES IN A LOT. 20 minutes is enough! Christina Bauer is convinced of this and shows how you can easily conjure up bread and pastries from the oven at home. The secret of the seminar farmer from Lungau? She doesn't have one. And that's exactly what matters. With just a few ingredients, she makes homemade rolls and crispy farmer's bread for breakfast, savory ham and cheese sticks for a snack and sweet nut stollen for coffee, easily and quickly.EASY PEASY RECIPES AND MANY TIME-SAVING TIPS:For that There is no need for pre-doughs, a steamer or even a special oven. Christina Bauer has created recipes that are easy to implement. She knows exactly where time can be saved and passes on her tips and tricks in an understandable way. So: quickly preheat the oven and enjoy fresh bread and fluffy pastries in less than an hour - you definitely have the ingredients at home!- the 50 best quick recipes for quick DIY baking- all the basics for baking: no frills and a lot Everything is explained- the most important steps are illustrated with step-by-step photos- success is guaranteed, even for inexperienced bakers: each recipe has been tested many times in baking courses- lovingly designed and with beautiful photos by Nadja HudovernikIt takes an hour from reaching for the flour to taking out the finished pastry. Pure working time is only 20 minutes. Baking is fun!

The first four books by baking professional Christian Ofner have been sold more than 100,000 times in recent years! The first volume of his new series is dedicated to breads and pastries made from natural rye sourdough. Most bread baking books use dry sourdough powder, but the trend is clearly towards natural sourdough: such breads are easier to digest, taste better and last longer. The baking professional explains everything you need to know about making, storing and growing rye sourdough yourself with step-by-step photos and precise, easy-to-understand descriptions. Particularly important: What mistakes can happen, how can they be avoided or corrected? All recipes have been tried and tested many times and are absolutely guaranteed to succeed. This is how round breads, loaves of bread and loaves as well as small pastries are created that you can eat! Not only the basic steps, but also each recipe is individually and elegantly illustrated! 160 pagesThe authorChristian Ofneris The Baking Professional. His baking courses and live baking shows have thrilled thousands of participants, his television appearances have made him familiar to a large audience and led to millions of views of his YouTube videos. But even as a book author, he manages to convey his enthusiasm for baking bread to a large number of people in a way.

Only fruit trees that are cut correctly and regularly can ensure a healthy, tasty harvest year after year. In this book, the professional tells you simply and clearly what you need to consider when planting, pruning, caring for and maintaining the health of your fruit trees. From A for apple to Z for plum, you will find detailed instructions for pome, stone, berry and wild fruit. With the help of numerous practical tips and an error compass, you will learn to recognize and avoid cutting errors at an early stage. In a selected variety atlas, the author also introduces you to particularly easy-care varieties. With this basic course you are well equipped - make the first cut! 144 pages.

This beginner's book covers the basics of woodworking. Beginners in working with wood as a raw material or those who are still inexperienced learn essential basic techniques such as correct measuring and marking, drilling, sawing, hammering, gluing and sanding. The book also describes the most important wood connections such as butt joints, miter joints and tenon joints. Building on this, the first wood projects are included in the book. All techniques learned are used when building a table, a small shelf or your own toolbox. Step-by-step photos and detailed sketches for each project ensure that your first woodwork is a success. 160 pages.

Month by month made easy The bee year is short and every moment is important! This book is a companion through the bee year: It shows you how to handle your beehive month after month, treat the colonies correctly and keep your bees healthy. This monthly calendar is tailored to the biology of the bee, the rhythm of life of the bee colony and the specific location conditions. The methods described are simple, practical and current. They are based on forty years of experience.

Processing honey, pollen, wax &~ CoThe book provides comprehensive information about the extraction and processing of all bee products, their healing effects and their possible uses. With many recipes that even a non-beekeeper can implement with purchased raw materials!Honey and honey specialties (cream honey, mixtures with nuts or fruit creams)Propolis and its processing into cream, balm, solution and much moreBee pollen Bee breadRoyal jellyBeeswaxNatural cosmetics with bee products (oils, creams, shampoos ...)Honey liqueurs, vinegar and meadThe authorWolfgang Oberrisser teaches the beekeeping school Warth/Lower Austria.

Open and get started: Beekeeping step by step provides an easy introduction to the practice of beekeeping. Over 150 color photos and easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions guarantee a delicious honey harvest even for beginners. Particularly clear: the sections on the life of bees and the work of the beekeeper are marked with their own icons. This means the reader can see at a glance which work is required and when. 128 pages

The children can also learn that bees communicate through dancing and how to protect themselves from painful wasp stings. A beekeeper explains how honey is made and what bees eat in winter. With numerous discovery panels - for a detailed look behind the scenes!

​Whether in a home garden or commercial cultivation, the challenges of berry cultivation are often the same.This book offers an easy-to-understand introduction to professional berry cultivation and makes specialist knowledge available to hobby gardeners as well.It covers important crops such as strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, currants, gooseberries, blueberries, cranberries, lingonberries, elderberries, chokeberries, and haskap (sweet strawberry).The focus is on cultivation for fresh consumption.At the same time, the authors provide practical tips on elderberries and chokeberries, which are particularly interesting for processing.Topics such as planting, pruning, fertilization, watering, and harvesting are clearly explained.Organic berry cultivation is also covered in detail – including measures for protection against extreme weather and late frost.The book is rounded out with care tips for the home garden and delicious recipe ideas for using your own harvest.The authors are experienced experts in consulting, research, and practice: Manfred Wiesenhofer and Helmut Weiß have many years of experience in fruit-growing consulting; Christian Haselmair-Gosch is a researcher and blueberry grower; and Andreas Fischerauer runs a processing plant in Styria.224 pages, numerous color illustrations, 16.5 x 22 cm, hardcover

Sour meat, brawn, rillettes, corned beef &~ CoFor the first time, a book is dedicated exclusively to the question of how best to cook and preserve meat. Many of the traditional methods of preservation, which were once mainly used to build up stocks for the long months without slaughter, now enjoy cult status, and the products produced with them are considered absolute delicacies. Just think of the French rillettes, the Irish corned beef, the German pottsuse or the Austrian Kbelfleisch.In several sections in the book Fleisch einkochen, author Gerd Wolfgang Sievers presents the great classics from the past and interprets them for today accordingly: Rillons of pork and wild boar~ Rillettes, Pottsuse, lard and snack meat from pork, wild boar, goose, duck and chicken~ confits made from goose, duck, rabbit, chicken and pork as well as veal liver~ corned, salt and pressed beef~ Beef jam and cooked meat spreads made from, among other things, smoked meat and lamb~ sausage in a jar~ Delicacies in the lard pot from pork and goose lard to gram and pumpkin seed lard to bucket meat. After precise instructions for making these delicacies, recipe ideas follow for what you can prepare with them. By the way, you don't have to be a trained professional chef to produce the various "cult canned foods" for home use, because the book's recipes are easy to cook.A book for all gourmets who are not given up on the prevailing standard supermarket food who want to forego traditional specialties, but also for chefs who want to surprise their guests with something special, as well as for direct marketers who want to offer their customers a real extra.

comprehensive, informative standard work, precise and structured instructions, the experienced nativity scene builder Gnther Reinalter describes in detail the crucial steps in building a nativity scene. ~Detailed explanation of the different nativity scene stylesSymbolism of the nativity scene colors Tips for choosing the right materials and tools 10 helpful nativity scene building rules

Basics and examples from practice. Depending on whether dairy farming is being carried out, young cattle are being raised, suckler cow farming or cattle fattening is the focus, the requirements for the stable system are different. In any case, today, in new construction and also in the conversion of cattle stables, almost exclusively freestalls in a wide variety of designs are planned. On the one hand, these should meet all of the animals' requirements and take their natural behavior into account, but on the other hand, they should also save the farmer time and work and ultimately be economically viable when constructed or converted. 208 pages.

Prevent losses - save money! Preventive measures Early detection Causes and symptomsIn this book, the author shows how you can prevent many diseases in reared and purchased calves through correct husbandry and species-appropriate feeding. In an easy-to-understand manner, it covers the causes and symptoms of common illnesses, the early detection of which is important for successful treatment.The treatment methods also point out errors that can make an illness worse. Important questions - for example the negative effects of dietary measures on calves with diarrhea - are discussed here for the first time in a book.

​Every cattle farmer wants a healthy herd, because only healthy cattle perform well.In this guide, you will learn how to keep your stock healthy through proper housing conditions, feeding, and animal observation.Organized by category—colostrum-fed calf, milk-fed calf, weaner, fattening bull, heifer, and cow—the book discusses health-related aspects such as calf nutrition, bull management, and udder health in detail. And what if an animal does get sick? This guide shows you how to recognize conditions like calf scours, tail-tip inflammation, and mastitis, and outlines the available solutions.Two additional chapters cover barn climate and multifactorial diseases. An indispensable guide for every cattle farmer.144 pages

Make cheese and dairy products yourself - with this book you can do it very easily With simple step-by-step instructions you will learn everything about cheese curds, stirring, renneting, drying and maturing. You can try, experiment and of course taste to your heart's content.You don't need any special tools, but you will get tips on how to upcycle a yoghurt pot into a cheese mold andwhich milk you can use . With different spices you can complete your cheese according to your taste.Over 40 recipes from mascarpone, mozzarella, feta to halloumi, blue, white and red mold cheese to Gouda and Tilsiter and ricotta.Not forgetting cream cheese, hard cheese, paneer, burrata over blue cheese and yogurt. 150 pages. ~

From milk to specialty Everything important from feeding to marketing Procedure and special tips for each type of milk With practical overviews and many basic recipesIn this book you will find Everything you need to know so that your valuable raw materials become ready-to-sell specialties: biological and biochemical basics, requirements and necessities in cheese cooking, milk processing and cheese production step by step as well as legal know-how.The Austrian dairy master Wolfgang Scholz explains to you the background, shows work steps in words and pictures, tells you tried and tested recipes and lets you benefit from his practical experience. 4th expanded edition 2021. 168 pages, 85 color photos, 12 colored drawings, 20 tables.

Make your own cheese in your own kitchen: With the good instructions in this cheese book, it's possible.From quick to make to matured for months, here you'll find 40 well-tested cheese creations for small quantities made from cow's, sheep's and goat's milk.  ~Detailed step-by-step instructions and step photos for skyr, cream cheese, camembert, ash cheese, blue cheese, mozzarella, pecorino and many more, excellently explained and illustrated with over 500 photos and 50 drawings. At the end of each recipe there is a quick guide for repeat cheesemakers. Immerse yourself in the world of curds and maturation, stirring and turning and learn how to make cheese from scratch with this book. 520 color photos, 49 colored drawings , 352 pages. ~

The classic of cheese making is now coming to the market completely revised and with a new layout!What remains is the large number of recipe ideas for all types of cheese made from cow's, goat's and sheep's milk. Whether with raw or pasteurized milk, whether on a small scale at home or as a direct marketer for the farm shop: the book introduces the secrets of cheese making step by step. Starting with simple recipes for liquid dairy products such as buttermilk, whey or kefir and cream cheese such as quark or cream cheese in the style of Gervais, through soft cheese with and without mold, it extends to the sophisticated production of semi-hard and hard cheese, such as Tilsiter or Gouda, Cheddar or Parmesan.

If you need a quick solution then this chicken knowledge book is for you! ~No time to read a complete book? Does it have to be quick? Then you've come to the right place: All questions and answers about keeping chickens can be found in this compact guide.Short questions and short but precise answers on all topics related to chickens: keeping, care, feeding, coop and run , behavior, health, chick time and questions that no one else dares to ask: ~Do chickens lay eggs even without a rooster? Do bantam hens also lay eggs and can they be eaten? What happens if a chicken accidentally flies into a swimming pool...?Why do chickens love the color red? Here (almost) no question remains unanswered...66 color photos. 128 pages. ~