Rediscover taste and aroma of fresh bread

Dig out that breadmaker you bought a few years ago, which you used religiously for a few months and then popped in the cupboard, and try some of these easy, nutritious and delicious recipes.

With bread prices soaring, making your own bread has suddenly gone from being a novelty to being an easy way to save some money.

The wide range of recipes are simple and tasty.

And there's the added bonus of knowing exactly what you are eating.

No additives in these recipes ... and you can't beat the taste and aroma of freshly baked bread.

Recipes include banana bread (perfect for those bananas that go brown before you get a chance to eat them), potato and dill bread, cheesy bread with thyme and honey wholemeal bread, to name just a few.

But wait, there's more: This great little book also has cake recipes to cook in your breadmaker and, believe it or not, meatloaf and chicken soup with rice.

Author Richard Ehrlich said he had fun experimenting and treated the breadmaker as a cross between an oven and a crockpot.

He suggests you do your own "fiddling" and see what you come up with.

80 recipes for Your Breadmaker

by Richard Ehrlich, New Holland, $39.99