Welcome to Bageltopia; the Breadtopia bagel recipe and video tutorial for making genuine Vermont sourdough bagels (i.e. the best bagels in the world).
The Kneading Conference, held in Maine for the past several years, is fun and highly informative. Denyce and I skipped this summer’s event but very much enjoyed the two prior years. Now the food savvy Northwest has invited the Maine folks to help them organize the first Kneading Conference West which will take place in Mount Vernon, …
This Sicilian no knead bread recipe holds a solid place on my short list of favorite no knead recipes.
Breadtopia invited Jennifer Lapidus, founder of Carolina Ground flour mill and author of the award-winning book Southern Ground, to share her method for creating desem, a Flemish sourdough starter with a delicious fruity aroma and a distinctive approach for nurturing compared with typical sourdough starter. Give desem a try! Its low-key cold feeding schedule is great for beginners and experts alike — perfect as your only starter or for a second option in your refrigerator.
Milling whole grains in my Mockmill meshes perfectly with my three intertwining goals as a baker/cook: great flavor, high nutritional value, and convenience.
This whole grain sourdough pizza is nothing less than amazing. The hard red winter wheat flour yields a fiber-full nutritious pizza with a lovely, airy texture and a richer, fuller, less generic flavor than most white flour pizzas.
Make delicious, fresh granola using a variety of ingredients with this framework of a recipe. Pick the oil and sweetener you prefer, and use fresh nuts, seeds, oats, and sprouted grains. Whether you flake your own oats and grains or you buy rolled oats, this granola is full of flavor and fiber. Say goodbye to the one-dimensional sweetness of so many storebought granolas.
Pastiera Napoletana is a traditional Easter pie from Naples, Italy. It’s delicious, unique, and beautiful, and can be enjoyed any time of year and for any occasion. This dessert is made with cooked wheat berries, ricotta, and citrus of various forms: zest, blossom water, candied peels.
This simple and so delicious chickpea pancake or fainá is popular in Argentina and Uruguay but originated in the Liguria region of Italy.
From the Swabian region of Germany, seelen or “souls” bread was recently added to Slow Food’s Ark of Taste. Hand mixed and rough shaped, sprinkled with coarse salt and caraway seeds, and thrown into a hot oven, they emerge with a hard thin crust and moist interior. Perfect for serving with tomatoes and arugula, enjoying with cheese or an herbed butter, making into sandwiches, or tearing and dipping into hearty soups.
The Breadtopia no-knead bread baking recipe and video tutorial. Create an artisan loaf of bread at home from four ingredients with about ten minutes work.
Note: Please see Super Peel demonstration videos. The pizza peel is standard equipment among pizza makers everywhere. You need one to move your homemade pizza from counter to oven. Yet an ordinary peel requires some skill to accomplish this without making a mess of your masterpiece. It’s Super Peel to the rescue! The Super Peel …
All the clay bakers we offer have excellent thermal properties which makes them highly resistant to cracking from thermal shock (over the years, we’ve weeded out problematic bakers). However, here are a few easy to avoid things that might not be so clay baker friendly… When removing the hot baker from the oven after …
Decorative scoring of your artisan bread can really enhance its appearance and make a loaf look and feel special. We’ve compiled some scoring tips and tricks along with video demonstrations.
One baker’s attempt to take some of the mystery out of sourdough bread baking.
Freshly milled bolles hard red spring wheat flour makes a whole grain bread that is aromatic, super flavorful, and high in protein as well as fiber and other nutrients. The crumb is tender and relatively open, and the slices are quite pliable for sandwiches and more.
Nutrimill, Wondermill and Wolfgang Mill Demonstration It’s hard to beat freshly milled whole grain flour when you want to maximize the nutritional value and flavor of your bread. Milling your own grain has other practical advantages as well. The long shelf life of whole grain berries allows you to buy more economically in bulk and …
Altamura style bread is full of delicious nutty and slightly sweet durum wheat flavor. It has a great mouth-feel, with a chewiness that’s great for dipping in olive oil or stew, or for use as a sandwich bread.
Six videos showing how to shape boules, bâtards, oblong loaves, baguettes, and sandwich loaves.
For artisan style breads, most people do the bulk fermentation (first rise) of their dough in a bowl that is big enough for mixing and stretching and folding, and the final proof in a proofing basket, also called a banneton. This is a container that’s only a little larger than the shaped dough. It can …
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