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With four ingredients, a few pieces of basic baking equipment, and ten minutes of work, you can bake healthy, nutritious, incredibly delicious loaves of oven-fresh bread in your kitchen at home. Whenever you want.

We’ll show you how.

If you are just getting started with home bread baking, here’s where you should start. These basic articles, recipes, and video tutorials include everything you need to know to go from zero to your first great home-baked loaves of artisan bread.

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Favorite / Classic Bread Recipes

No Knead Sourdough Bread

Our original contribution to the no-knead bread revolution: substitute live sourdough starter for instant yeast to create the ultimate no knead artisan bread loaf.

Artisan Sourdough Rye Bread

This is my favorite rye bread recipe of all time. I could have just as easily called it Swedish Rye Bread or Aroma Therapy Bread for that matter (takes the coveted baking bread smell to another level). And if you’re not into sourdough baking, no problem, I cover the instant yeast version as well.

How to Make Baguettes

The Breadtopia baguette recipe and video tutorial for almost no-knead baguettes. Easier than you thought, as delicious as you hoped.

How To Make Bagels

Welcome to Bageltopia; the Breadtopia bagel recipe and video tutorial for making genuine Vermont sourdough bagels (i.e. the best bagels in the world).

Seeded Sourdough Bread

With chia, poppy, and toasted sesame seeds, this bread smells delicious and is full of flavor. The crust is crackly and the crumb is soft and chewy.

Sourdough Ciabatta

If you could only have one type of bread to eat for the rest of your life, what would you pick? My answer would be, “Ciabatta.” Specifically, sourdough ciabatta, for the added complexity of flavor that natural leavening brings to the bread.

Sourdough Focaccia (Yeast Version too)

Sourdough Focaccia with a touch of whole grain wheat is a delicious treat but also a contender to be an everyday bread.

Basic All Purpose Sourdough Bread

You can make this basic all purpose flour sourdough bread recipe into beautiful crusty artisan-style bread or a soft and tender sandwich bread. You can choose either a 1-day process baking in the evening or an overnight refrigeration of the dough for a morning bake. It’s simple, easy to follow, and the results are delicious.

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Kamut, Khorasan, and Durum Wheats Comparison

Here we compare Kamut®, khorasan, and durum wheats for taste and performance differences in bread baking. The quick summary is that there seemed to be more terroir difference than species difference in the loaf appearance, and taste testers didn’t have consistent opinions about the flavors of all three breads. Some found durum more buttery, others found khorasan and Kamut more buttery. Same with sweetness.

Cranberry Pecan Milk and Honey Bread

This braided bread is both beautiful and scrumptious. The texture is squishy-tender from the milk and all purpose flour; and the flavor is balanced and interesting with some whole wheat flour, plus the toasted pecans, dried cranberries, and hint of honey. It makes an impressive gift bread, but you’ll want to make yourself one too.

Experiment: Scoring Dough Once versus Twice

We experiment with “double scoring” which is a technique meant to increase the “bloom” (or opening) of the loaf during baking. With this technique you score normally before the dough goes into the oven, and then again 5-7 minutes into the bake.

Butterfly Pea Flower Swirl Sourdough Bread

Here’s a recipe for when you’re feeling playful or want a visually striking slice of bread. It involves mixing two doughs, one of which is hydrated with butterfly pea flower tea to create a bright, blue-violet crumb. Folding together the white and violet doughs is fun, and cutting into the final loaf to see how they ended up swirling together even more so.

Basic All Purpose Sourdough Sandwich Bread

Enjoy this basic sourdough sandwich bread made with all purpose flour. The bread has a soft, tender texture and is buttery, with a hint of sweetness and a subtle complexity that you will never find in bread from a grocery store. It works great for toast, and of course, sandwiches.

Artisan Bread Baking without Special Equipment

This is a guide to baking bread without special, dedicated equipment, whether you’re a new bread baker who isn’t sure yet if you want to commit to the hobby, or an experienced baker who wants to bake bread in another kitchen–when visiting friends and family or staying in an vacation rental. This article is intended to help you make tasty, attractive bread with tools that are in most any kitchen.

Sourdough Cottage Loaf

Cottage loaves have a fun shape and are crusty on the outside and soft inside. Inspired by Paul Hollywood’s recipe on the “Great British Baking Show,” this sourdough version has a slow fermentation and a lot of flavor. It also likely harkens back to how the bread would have been made before the advent of commercial yeast.

Lemon Spelt Crinkle Cookies

These lemon crinkle cookies with spelt flour and sourdough starter are a delicious fiber-filled treat to brighten your day. If you have lemons to spare, try the preserved lemon recipe in the notes.

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