One baker’s attempt to take some of the mystery out of sourdough bread baking.
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Demystifying Sourdough Bread Baking
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Whole Grain Challah
My latest bread obsession involves trying to convert normally all white flour recipes to healthy and tasty whole grain versions while maintaining the light and soft texture typical of the originals. This challah recipe does the trick for me.
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Grilled Sourdough Pizza
Great pizza at home with sourdough crust baked in a standard backyard barbecue grill!
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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).
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Whole Wheat Pita Bread
Good pita bread is magic. Seriously! We’ve found that even leftovers otherwise destined for the chickens (ok, we don’t have chickens but we do have a compost bin), are magically transformed, in a pita pocket, to a culinary delight. Try it yourself. You’ll be amazed. So imagine how much more amazed you’ll be when you …
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Eric’s Easy Bake – Episode 4
Soft Pull-Apart Dinner Rolls. Hamburger & Hotdog Buns Too! Enriched dough is a wondrous thing. There’s so much good that can come from it. Here are a couple of examples with far reaching benefits for humanity.
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Eric’s Easy Bake Series – Episode 3
Sometimes a crusty artisan loaf with big holes doesn’t quite cut it. For sandwiches, a bread that’s light and tender, easy to chew, flavorful but not overpowering, kid friendly yet wholesome is often the way to go. This bread is it.
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Eric’s Easy Bake Series – Episode 2
Here’s a technique for basic bread that should appeal to a wide range of tastes. It’s pretty great by itself yet flexible enough to take in a few directions. With minimal hands on practice you’ll quickly get to know how much or how little flour to add to achieve your desired outcome.
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Eric’s Easy Bake Series – Episode 1
My easy bake series attempts to distill bread baking to its bare essentials and focus on what I think is all you really need to know to make good bread for you and your family.
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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.
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UuniVersity
Instructional videos on using an Uuni wood fired pizza oven
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Whole Wheat Croissants
Pastry Heaven. Imagine enjoying a fabulously decadent croissant where you actually feel nourished instead of dazed by a refined sugar and flour induced stupor. Well, here you go…
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Pie Crust Cookies
A great low sugar kid (and everyone else) treat.
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Aloo ka Paratha
Indian Potato Stuffed Flatbread
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The Stollen Chronicles
Our take on Emmanuel Hadjiandreou’s award-winning Christmas stollen
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Campfire Bread
How we spent a summer vacation
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Financier Pastry
Small buttery, moist but chewy almond cake, often topped with fruit jam or dark chocolate squares
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Couronne Bordelaise
Make friends and influence people with this one
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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.
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Baking Bread in a Big Green Egg
A couple years ago I talked about my experience with baking bread in an outdoor grill. One solution to baking yourself out of your own home during the hot summer months. Recently, Breadtopia reader Marianne Preston posted a photo of her success using a Big Green Egg to accomplish the same thing. Since the bread …
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Whole Spelt Sourdough Bread
This spelt bread recipe is as delicious and easy to make as it is nutritious. So when the inspiration strikes to get virtuous with your eating habits without sacrificing sensory pleasure, give this one a whirl.
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Sicilian No Knead Bread
This Sicilian no knead bread recipe holds a solid place on my short list of favorite no knead recipes.
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It’s Bread Baking Season
Mark Liptak, who has graciously shared with us on prior occasions, sent in an email the other day appropriately titled “Back At It”. “It” being bread baking, of course. Mark’s got some great tips for handling his no knead bread dough with some excellent photos. Good stuff! In his words… Now that we’re back into …
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Increasing Your No Knead Recipes
Increasing the size of your loaves
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