Article: Mixing it up; Bread machines offer the baker more than perfect loaves. All sorts of dough - from pizza and breadsticks to coffeecakes and pastries - can be prepared in the appliance, then finished with the baker's hands.(TASTE)

Raised dough always intimidated me. That is, until I got my bread machine and tamed the wild yeast.

Now, besides making the standard square loaves, I easily turn out luscious fruit- and cheese-filled coffee cakes, savory breadsticks and unusual pizzas. The machine makes the dough, and I do the rest.

The dough comes out smooth and warm from the machine, perfectly kneaded and raised, exuding that wonderful scent of yeast. It's a pile of pure potential.

As a child, I watched others work with yeast. My mother casually turn out raised doughnuts covered with gooey frosting, dainty almond tea rings and picture-perfect Christmas stollen. One of my older ...

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