Bread Machine (229 page)

Williams-Sonoma
P.O. Box 7456
San Francisco, California 94120-7456
800-541-2233
www.williams-sonoma.com

Purveyor of Grande Cuisine bread machines, fine cookware and bakeware, baking stones, baking pans, rolling pins, French bread pans, Kaiser springform pans, decorative pans, bundt pans, and jelly jars. Also bread machine mixes, Scharffen Berger chocolate, Nielsen-Massey vanilla, Australian crystallized ginger, crystallized flowers, mint, and berries, whole roasted chestnuts, Boyajian citrus oils, dried berries, almond extract, Fini balsamic vinegar, and olive oil.

Bread Machines and Baking Equipment

Chef’s Catalog
P.O. Box 620048
Dallas, Texas 75262
800-884-2433
www.chefscatalog.com

Sells Breadman bread machines, as well as every other piece of equipment you could want.

Sur La Table Catalog
1765 Sixth Avenue South
Seattle, Washington 98134
800-243-0852
www.surlatable.com

A variety of baking equipment, such as decorative paper loaf pans, pizza pans, 6-inch cake pans, decorative bread tubes, baguette pans, breadstick pans, banettons, baking sheets, Kaiser nonstick loaf pans, and rolling pins. Also sell bread machines and grain mills.

Baking Stones and Clay Pans

Sassafras Enterprises Inc.
1622 West Carroll Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60612
800-537-4941

Makers of Superstone La Cloche baking dishes, baking stones and tiles, pizza pans, large and small clay loaf pans, rectangular rimmed baking stones, 11-inch wreath bread pans, 4
¹
/
₂
-inch round bread crocks sold in sets of two, and 6
³
/
₄
-inch round loaf bakers. I use the ceramic baking sheet all the time for focaccia.

Tufty Ceramics, Inc.
47 Main Street
Andover, New York 14806
607-478-5150

Alfred red clay bread pans and pizza pans.

Flours

Bob’s Red Mill Natural Foods
5209 SE International Way
Milwaukee, Oregon 97222
503-654-3215

One of my favorite sources for bread flour and stone-ground whole wheat flour. They mill a large variety of fresh flours.

Butte Creek Mill
P.O. Box 561
402 Royal Avenue North
Eagle Point, Oregon 97524
541-826-3531
www.buttecreekmill.com

Wonderful flours stone-ground by an old water-powered mill. I love their stone-ground white flour—it makes fantastic white bread.

Giusto’s
344 Littlefield
South San Francisco, California 94080
650-873-6566
www.giustos.com

I have used Giusto’s flour both at home and professionally, and find it to be some of the best flour available.

Goldmine Natural Food Company
7805 Arjons Drive
San Diego, California 92126
800-475-3663
www.goldminenaturalfood.com

A full line of premium organic bread and specialty flours and sweeteners.

The Great Valley Mills
1774 County Line Road
Barto, Pennsylvania 19504
800-688-6455

This mill has been operating since 1710 and supplied Washington’s troops with flour during the American Revolution. Known for generations for their excellent flours.

Hodgson Mill
1203 Niccum Avenue
Effingham, Illinois 62401
800-525-0177
www.hodgsonmill.com

A full line of stone-ground flours and cornmeals and a flour just for the bread machine. Hodgson’s products are staples in Midwest supermarkets. The mill began in the Ozarks 117 years ago.

Walnut Acres Organic Farms
Walnut Acres Road
Penns Creek, Pennsylvania 17862
800-344-9025
www.walnutacres.com

A reliable source for organic bread flour, all-purpose flour, and a full line of specialty flours.

War Eagle Mill
Route 5, P.O. Box 411
11045 War Eagle Road
Rogers, Arkansas 72756
501-789-5343
www.wareaglemill.com

Excellent stone-ground bread flours. I am guessing it must be a great place to visit, too, with a restaurant called the Bean Palace. The mill offers tours and there is a retail store on the premises.

Whole Grains and Specialty Flours (
see also
Flours
)

Birkett Mills/The National Buckwheat Institute
P.O. Box 440A
Penn Yan, New York 14527
315-536-3311
www.thebirkettmills.com

This research and information center has its own mill.

The California Press
6200 Washington Street
Yountville, California 94599
707-944-0343
www.californiapress.com

Wonderful virgin nut oils and nut flours (walnut, almond, pistachio, filbert, and pecan).

Gibbs Wild Rice
10400 Billings Road
Live Oak, California 95953
800-824-4932

Gibbs offers a really nice mild-flavored California-grown wild rice.

Gibbs Wild Rice
P.O. Box 277
Dear River, Minnesota 56636
800-344-6378
www.gibbswildrice.com

Order Minnesota-grown wild rice and wild rice flour from this branch of Gibbs.

Grain Millers
315 Madison Street
Eugene, Oregon 97402
800-443-8972
www.grainmillers.com
Organic rolled oats.

Gray’s Grist Mill
P.O. Box 422
Adamsville, Rhode Island 02801
508-636-6075
www.burningelectrons.com
/GRAYS/
Stone-ground cornmeals; known for using New
England strains of corn.

Kamut Association of America
Montana Flour and Grains
P.O. Box 517
Ft. Benton, Montana 59442
800-644-6450
www.kamut.com

This is a source for kamut flour.

Kenyon Cornmeal Company
21 Glenn Rock Road
West Kingston, Rhode Island 02892
800-753-6966
www.kenyongristmill.com

Stone-ground cornmeals.

Lundberg Family Farms
5370 Church Street
P.O. Box 369
Richvale, California 95974
530-882-4551
www.lundberg.com

Wehani rice, American basmati rice, japonica black rice, brown rices, and arborio varieties.

Mountain Ark Trading Company
799 Old Leicester Highway
Asheville, North Carolina 28806
800-643-8909
www.mountainark.com

Specializes in organic flours.

Nu-World Amaranth, Inc.
P.O. Box 2202
Naperville, Illinois 60567
630-369-6819
www.nuworldamaranth.com

This company sells amaranth grain and flour.

Santa Fe School of Cooking
116 West San Francisco Street
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501
505-983-4511
www.santafeschoolofcooking.com

Blue cornmeals,
harinilla
,
atole
, blue corn masaharina, and the
best
stone-ground masa harina.

Western Trails Cowboy Foods
P.O. Box 460
Bozeman, Montana 59771
406-587-5489
www.cowboyfoods.com

Barley flour, barley flakes, barley grits, and whole grain. The Black Buffalo and Bronze Nugget barleys, either whole or as flour, are especially delicious.

Flours and Specialty Products for Gluten-Free Baking

When you bake for special diets, egg replacers, gluten-free flours, wheat-free bread machine mixes, methocel, xanthan gum, and guar gum are important staples. Here are mail-order sources for those products (
see also
listings for Bob’s Red Mill Natural Foods and The Baker’s Catalogue):

Ener-G Foods, Inc.
P.O. Box 84487
5960 First Avenue South
Seattle, Washington 98108
800-331-5222
www.ener-g.com

Tadco Niblack Foods
900 Jefferson Road, Building 5
Rochester, New York 14623
800-724-8883

Seeds and Grains for Growing

If you are interested in growing grains in your home garden, here are some resources that offer seeds:

Bountiful Gardens
18001 Shafer Ranch Road
Willits, California 95490
707-459-6410
www.beautifulgardens.org

KUSA Seed Society
P.O. Box 761
Ojai, California 93024
Send $2.50 and a self-addressed stamped envelope to receive their seed and literature catalogue.

Native Seeds/SEARCH
526 North Fourth Avenue
Tucson, Arizona 85705
520-622-5561
www.azstarnet.com/~nss

Redwood City Seed Company
P.O. Box 361
Redwood City, California 94064
650-325-7333
www.ecoseeds.com

Seeds of Change
P.O. Box 15700
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87506
888-762-7333
www.store.yahoo.com/seedsofchange

Preserves, Glacéed and Dried Fruits, Spices, and Other Sweet Bread Ingredients and Bakeware

See also
listings for The California Press, The Baker’s Catalogue, and Williams-Sonoma.

American Spoon Foods
1668 Clarion Avenue
P.O. Box 566
Petoskey, Michigan 49770
800-222-5886
www.spoonfoods.com

Dried Michigan tart cherries, blueberries, raspberries, and wonderful jamlike spreadable fruit preserves.

Dean & Deluca
560 Broadway
New York, New York 10012
900-999-0306 ext. 268
www.deandeluca.com

New York’s famous food purveyor offers, among other things, European bakeware, glacéed fruits, chocolate, cocoa powder, vanilla beans and extracts,
marrons glacés
,
crème de marrons
, and nuts.

Jaffe Bros.
28560 Lilac Road
Valley Center, California 92082
760-749-1133
www.organicfruitsandnuts.com

Excellent resource for organic dried fruits, raisins, nuts, and seeds.

La Cuisine
323 Cameron Street
Alexandria, Virginia 22314
800-521-1176
www.lacuisineus.com

European bakeware, Silpat baking sheets, hand nut and poppy seed grinder, Valhrona chocolate, cocoa powders, Tahitian vanilla beans and extracts, Swiss glacéed fruits, candied citrus peels, dried berries, shelled pistachios, whole peeled hazelnuts, silver dragées, gold and silver leaf and dust (great for fancy decorating), marzipan decorations, and pearl sugar. I like their India Tree Sugars, especially Dark Muscovado brown sugar (the best brown sugar I have ever tasted), and their sparkling sugars in emerald, ultra violet, hot pink, and other colors great for sprinkling over a powdered sugar icing. Their newsletter
A La Carte
is really fun to read.

Maison Glass
P.O. Box 317H
Scarsdale, New York
800-822-5564

European glacéed fruits, candied chestnuts, and chestnut products for baking; source for my favorite imported chestnut flour.

Miles Kimball
41 West Eighth Avenue
Oshkosh, Wisconsin 54906
920-231-1992
www.mileskimball.com

This catalog offers special bags for storing and giving bread machine breads.

Paradigm Food Works
5775 SW Jean Road, Suite 106A
Lake Oswego, Oregon 97035
800-234-0250

You can order many different chocolates—Guittard, Ghirardelli, Lindt, Merckens, and Peter’s—from Paradigm.

Penzeys Spices
582 W19362 Apollo Drive
P.O. Box 993
Muskego, Wisconsin 53150
800-741-7787
www.penzeys.com

Penzeys has exemplary herbs and spices, both whole and ground, extracts, and spice blends. Some of the spices are very specialized, such as ground poppy seeds. They sell true cinnamon from Ceylon and cassia cinnamon from Indonesia (Korintje), China (Tunghing), and Vietnam (my favorite). They also sell cinnamon, rosemary, and saffron oils and single-or double-strength vanilla extracts from Madagascar, Tahiti, and Mexico (especially hard to find). Their catalog has history and stories about the spices, as well as recipes.

Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker, Inc.
250 South Maple Avenue, Unit C
South San Francisco, California 94080
800-930-4528
www.scharffen-berger.com