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Brioche Buns with Fruit Custard Decorated with fresh heart-shaped strawberry slices, these soft and delicately sweet brioche buns are topped with homemade custard in the flavor of your choosing: vanilla, lemon, or raspberry.

Here's a Valentine's recipe for delicately sweet brioche buns with a fruit custard topping. You can choose from vanilla, lemon, or raspberry custard, as well as instant yeast or a sweet stiff sourdough levain: b7p.org/gobHy

Bauernbrot, Farmer’s Bread Bauernbrot or “Farmer’s Bread” is a dense and flavorful bread from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland made with rye and wheat flours. This version features a yeast poolish and a rye sourdough…

Bauernbrot or Farmer's Bread tastes phenomenal with butter, cheese, and cold cuts. Our recipe for this flavorful bread has homemade German bread spice "Brotgewürz" and two pre-ferments. Check it out here: b7p.org/fG23d

Wow your eyes and taste buds with this Black Sesame Swirl Sourdough. It's easy to make black sesame paste with a spice grinder or food processor, and laminating two doughs together makes cool swirls. We also tested seed-crust "glues" and egg white did no better than water🌾https://b7p.org/tA3Gz

Why Are Root Beer Floats Special? Because Science! Daniel Gritzer and Swetha Sivakumar answer your food science questions.

Bread notes from an episode of The Sporkful podcast:
6:05 A test of flour absorbency and ambient humidity; it's a measurable difference but minor.
23:15 Discussion about bread storage (balancing breathing and enclosure), freezing (double-bag), and reheating "starches best served at 60C/140F."

Sesame Flatbreads Enjoy the nutty flavor and crackly texture of these sourdough flatbreads that are coated with toasted sesame seeds which won’t fall off during baking or eating.

Sesame Flatbreads🌾No mess seeds that stay on the bread because of an application technique from our Lebanese Purse Bread recipe. Dip the dough in honey-water, then in the seeds, and finally roll the dough into a circle, embedding the seeds into it. ⁠

Large Rye Sourdough Bread Here’s a large and versatile sourdough bread that is packed with rye and whole wheat flavor. Bake the dough in a long pullman-type pan or scale the recipe to fit a smaller baker. The slices are great…

This large rye sourdough bread is built for days and days of sandwiches and toast. The recipe has bread flour for lift and softness, whole wheat flour for sweet nuttiness, and plenty of rye flour for deep earthy flavor and extra slow staling.

Easy Cinnamon Rolls These easy cinnamon rolls are soft, fluffy, and swirled with a delicious cinnamon-cardamon filling. Perfect for beginners, they come together quickly with whatever flour you have on hand and the photo...

Easy Cinnamon Rolls🌾This recipe works with different flours and mixes up quickly. If you have a warm spot for the dough to rise, you can start this dough at dawn and eat warm cinnamon rolls for a late breakfast that same day.

Pinyonate — Honey and Nut Pastry Pinyonate or pinonato is a pastry of crunchy honey-coated small biscuits and nuts from the historical Sephardic Jewish community of the Greek island Rhodes. It’s quite tasty and unique…

I pieced together information about this relatively unknown pastry via a pdf of a museum's cookbook, the posts of Stella's Sephardic Table and a family recipe printed in the @washingtonpost.com almost 50 years ago.

YouTube video by Breadtopia Sourdough Himbasha

Himbasha is a delicious Eritrean and Ethiopian flat bread that's tender-soft and slightly sweet. It’s usually leavened with yeast but we've developed a sourdough version with orange zest and black sesame seeds. ⁠
Recipe link in the video description:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QQp...

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The Slow Lazy Method with Instant Yeast Using a very small amount of yeast allows for a slow, lazy process that nonetheless results in delicious and beautiful bread. This low stress method deepens the fermentation flavors…

Slow lazy method with instant yeast? This week I tested just how few granules are needed to get a dough fermenting and found the line between a slow low-stress process and stagnation resulting in a dough needing to be rescued with more yeast.

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YouTube video by Breadtopia Slow Lazy Sourdough Bread for Thanksgiving Leftovers

1 gram of cold unfed starter and no toil🌾Here's how I make sourdough bread when I'm super busy Thanksgiving week or any other time of year.

Germans think their bread is the best in the world. Here’s why they might be right | CNN Germans have more bakeries and eat more varieties of bread than most other countries in the world — no wonder it’s so good.

Many different flours, grains, and seeds; rigorous training for bakers; supply-demand for quality and variety...

Pecan Tart with an Heirloom Wheat Crust This unique and delicious tart from 1914 has a pecan custard filling and a meringue topping. It’s a little less sweet than the classic pecan pie, allowing more of the nut flavor to come through…

We've added our own twist to the 1914 Texas pecan pie recipe resurrected by Tasting History -- a flavorful crust made with a popular wheat of the same era: Heirloom Turkey Red.⁠ Check out the recipe here: b7p.org/tylzA

Pecan Tart with an Heirloom Wheat Crust This unique and delicious tart from 1914 has a pecan custard filling and a meringue topping. It’s a little less sweet than the classic pecan pie, allowing more of the nut flavor to come through…

We've added our own twist to the 1914 Texas pecan pie recipe resurrected by Tasting History -- a flavorful crust made with a popular wheat of the same era: Heirloom Turkey Red.⁠ Check out the recipe here: b7p.org/KlIii

YouTube video by Breadtopia Pumpkin Shaped Bread

How to make an orange pumpkin-shaped bread, with gourdlike blisters even, while avoiding crust rupture and keeping the vibrant orange color on your bread and not all over your kitchen 🍂 More tips in the blog post: b7p.org/p74ea

Packed with flavor, texture, and nutrients from chia and hemp seeds, this is a perfect everyday bread for sandwiches or toast. The recipe is scaled to fill the Emile Henry Pullman Loaf Pan (720g flour) and has a cold-start to the bake.
Recipe🌾 b7p.org/wrjK7

Those loaves look great.

Cranberry Orange Yeast Bread This cranberry orange yeast bread has delicious fruit and yeast aromas and a light sweetness. Enjoy it plain, with cream cheese, or slathered in butter for a more decadent experience.

Given the choice between a quick bread and a sweet yeast bread, I tend to prefer the latter--the gluten chew and simpler ingredient list. Inspired by cranberry orange quick bread, here is a simple yeast bread with those fruit flavors.

YouTube video by Breadtopia Sourdough Soba Noodles

I'd love to convince more people to make noodles from scratch -- that you don't have to be a rolling pin wizard to enjoy vibrant flavors, choosing ingredients, and the mindfulness practice of it all. Also, did you know that buckwheat is a complete protein, with all nine essential amino acids?

Sourdough Rye Country Bread This sourdough rye country bread is bursting with earthy notes and baking spice aromas alongside flavors that develop from the almost 24-hour fermentation process. It’s an ideal bread to pair with…

We played with the ratios of traditional French pain de campagne, using more rye. The results are tasty!

Apple Raspberry Pie Apple and raspberry complement each other so nicely in this pie filling, balancing sweetness, texture, and acidity. While you can use any flour for the crust, white Kamut adds a unique butteriness and...

Apple Raspberry Pie with a white Kamut crust for phyllo-like flaky layers, bridging the seasons with a little more texture and tartness than a classic apple pie.

Easy Refrigerator Dough No bandwidth for a complicated process? This easy dough mixes up fast and after rising once, it can be refrigerated and used all at once or in pieces throughout the next week. Make a loaf, rolls…

Easy Refrigerator Dough for when you're busy, new to bread baking, or both. Try the method yourself or send this to someone you know who believes homemade bread requires a lot of time, attention, and equipment.⁠ Recipe tested by an actual bread-baking novice with long work hours!

Sourdough pretzel buns and bagels are a scrumptious and convenient back-to-school breakfast or snack that might just beat out the costly, low-nutrient options in school vending machines and nearby mini marts. Check out our latest recipe on the blog: breadtopia.com/sourdough-pr...

Culurgiones, Sardinian Potato-Stuffed Pasta Culurgiones are a beautiful and delicious pasta from Sardinia that will awaken your taste buds with the combination of mint, cheese, and potato, as well as exercise your fine motor skills as you shape...

Sardinian culurgiones are shaped like wheat spikelets🌾So fun to make and worth the time commitment: a fresh durum pasta filled with potato, cheese, mint, and garlic for dinner and a big bag in the freezer for future meals.

Sprouted rye, olives, and tarragon are harmonized in this super-tasty sourdough bread recipe. It's written for one loaf, but I made a double batch to test how this slightly floppy dough (15% rye, 76% hydration) bakes up in two differently shaped clay bakers. Recipe: breadtopia.com/sprouted-rye...