Toasts & Chips
*Homemade Croutons (for salads or soups)
*Crostini (Italian "toasts" w/ topping ideas)
Toast Points (served w/ appetizers, etc.)
*Pita Chips (from pita bread)
Tortilla Chips (from tortillas)
Breadsticks (yeast)
Cheese Straws (made w/ puff pastry)
Cheese Straws (from scratch)
*Garlic Bread (& variations)
English Muffin Toasting Bread (for Texas Toast)
Butters & Other Toppings
Carrabas Italian Olive Oil (for bread dipping)
Scone Butters (Orange & Raspberry)
Honey Butter (plus Orange Honey Butter)
Maple Butter
Crackers
Saltine (Soda) Crackers (uses yeast)
Sourdough Crackers (& variations)
Easiest Sourdough Discard Crackers
Homemade Graham Crackers (w/ optional cinnamon version)
Scottish Oatcakes (& seeded variation)
Tartine's Sourdough Crispbreads (uses sourdough starter)
Flatbreads
Flatbreads - General Information
Unleavened Flatbreads
Ployes (Acadian flatbread made w/ buckwheat)
Unleavened Flatbreads - Mexican
Leavened Flatbreads - yeast
Ciabatta (Italian)
Focaccia (Italian)
Fougasse (French)
Provençal Olive Fougasse (French)
Fougasse (Provençal Flat Bread) w/ rosemary & thyme
Rosemary Flatbread (Emeril)
Homemade Pita Bread (Greek, Middle East)
The 7 Rules of Perfect Pita Bread
Naan (Indian leavened flatbread)
Unleavened Flatbreads - Indian
Chapati (Indian pan-fried flatbread)
Plain Parathas (Indian flaky flatbread)
Lachcha Parathas (Indian layered flatbread)
Aaloo Paratha (Indian potato flatbread)
Poori (Indian deep-fried flatbread - puffy)
Potato Pappadums (Indian deep-fried flatbread)
Leavened Flatbreads - baking powder/soda
Johnny Cakes (cornmeal flatbread)
Southern Hoecakes (cornmeal flatbread)
General Information
Baking Tip: Ingredient Temperatures in Baking
Creaming Butter & Sugar Method (& importance of ingredients at room temperature, adding eggs 1 at a time)
Testing Quick Breads for Doneness
Tips for Trouble-Shooting Quick Loaves
How to Convert Muffins to Quick Bread (& Bread to Muffins)
Pan Measurements & Substitutions
How To Test the Accuracy of Your Measuring Spoons
Ingredients
Difference Between Polenta, Grits, & Cornmeal
Making Milk from Powdered Milk (including sour milk, condensed milk & evaporated milk)
Sour Milk Substitution (in recipes)
Buttermilk Substitution (in recipes)
+Homemade Sweetened Condensed Milk
Homemade Caramel Sauce from Sweetened Condensed Milk
Types of Sugar & other Sweeteners
Adding Pumpkin to Bread Recipes
Biscuits
*+Baking Powder Biscuits (and variations)
Christel's Cheddar Biscuits (decorated w/ parsley leaves)
Melt in Your Mouth Biscuits (bisquick)
Angel Biscuits (also made w/ yeast)
Dumplings
Potato Dumplings
Yorkshire Pudding & Popovers
*Yorkshire Pudding (& Popovers)
Corn Bread
+Jane's Fat Free Corn Bread w/ Chilis (creamed corn)
Tex-Mex Cornbread (creamed corn)
Perfect, Forever Cornbread (uses frozen corn)
Cornmeal Muffins (honey)
Blue Corn Muffins (savory)
*Cheddar Jalapeno Cornbread Muffins
Johnny Cakes (cornmeal flatbread)
Southern Hoecakes (cornmeal flatbread)
Hot-Water Cornbread (deep-fried)
Scones
British Scones (less sweet, add butter & jam)
Scone Butters (orange & raspberry)
British Scones (& blueberry variation)
Rhubarb Scones (Scottish website)
Treacle Scones (Scottish)
American Scones (sweeter, do not need butter or jams)
Scone Master Recipe (add mix-ins: berries, peaches, cherries, etc., dried or fresh)
Banana Nut Scones w/ Maple Glaze
Fruit & Nut Breads
Finishes for Fruit & Nut Quick Breads
Any Season
Country Cinnamon Swirl Buttermilk Loaf
Spring
Rhubarb Bread (use Cranberry Bread recipe)
Strawberry Bread (try dried strawberries in the Cranberry Bread recipe)
Pineapple Nut Bread (from 1940s)
Emily Dickinson's Cocoanut Cake
Pineapple, Coconut, & Macadamia Nut Bread (canned crushed pineapple)
Louisiana Crunch Cake (w/ coconut)
Summer
*Blueberry Bread (made w/ sour cream)
*Zucchini Walnut Bread (carrot bread?)
Georgia Peach Bread (Strawberry & Apple variations)
Fall
*Cranberry Nut Bread (excellent, also good w/ rhubarb)
Sweet Potato Tea Cake (meringue topping)
Apple Loaf (or pear)
Apple Cider Doughnut Loaf Cake
Pear Bread w/ Vanilla & Ginger
Winter
Fruit & Sunflower Loaves (made w/ cornmeal, maple syrup & honey)
Muffins
Muffin Techniques & Tips (basic recipes for blueberry, carrot nut, zucchini nut, cranberry, apple cinnamon, pineapple)
Difference Between Old-Fashioned & Bakery-Style Muffins
How to get Bakery-style High Domed Muffins
*Why Rest Muffin Batter Overnight
Why Miffins Get Pointy Centers
How to Convert Muffins to Quick Bread (& Quick Bread to Muffins)
Betty Crocker's Muffins Recipes (1950 edition)
Sour Cream Muffins (Betty Crocker - basic recipe, blueberry, apple cinnamon variations)
Best Blueberry Muffins in Boston
World's Best Blueberry Muffins (cake-like w/ streusel topping)
Blueberry Angelfood Muffins (uses 12 egg whites, w/ lemon glaze)
*Cherry Almond Muffins (cake-like)
Raspberry-Cream Cheese Muffins
Original Morning Glory Muffins
Blue Corn Muffins (savory)
*Oatmeal Muffins (regular & blueberry yogurt)
*Kellogg's All-Bran Muffins (w/ raisins or apples)
*Mom's Six Week Bran Muffins (Raisin Bran cereal, batter stores in frig for 6 weeks)
Chef Prudhomme's New Orleans Black Muffins
Spiced Apple Cider Muffins (w/ apple butter)
Apple Cider Doughnut Loaf Cake (muffins?)
Cinnamon Breakfast Puffs (muffins rolled in butter & cinnamon sugar)
Oatcakes & Irish Soda Bread
Scottish Oatcakes (simple recipe for farls)
*Irish Soda Bread (wheat brown bread)
Irish Soda Bread (w/ orange zest & currants)
*Walnut Oatmeal Irish Soda Bread
Other Quick Breads
Yeast Breads (see Holiday & Breakfast Breads below for sweet-type breads)
Bread Baking General Information
Pan Measurements & Substitutions
Types of Breads
Difference Between Vienna, French & Italian Breads
Bread Baking Ingredients
All About Leavening (from yeast to baking soda & powder to whipping eggs & lamination)
Buying Yeast (types of yeast available)
Bread Preferments (sponge, biga, poolish, etc.)
Baking Ingredients (all about salt, sweeteners, fats and liquids)
Homemade Rice Flour (for dusting loaves)
Baked Baking Soda (used when boiling pretzels)
Adding Pumpkin to Bread Recipes
Bread Baking Techniques
Bakers Math (Dough Hydration - soft, firm, stiff doughs)
The Windowpane Test (so know if dough has been kneaded enough)
Stretch & Fold Technique (for developing gluten in wet doughs)
Baking Tip: Ingredient Temperatures in Baking
Testing Yeast Breads for Doneness
Ways to Make Homemade Bread Soft & Fluffy
Shaping Loaves of Bread
Shaping Challah Bread (braids & other shapes)
Exotic Bread Shapes (challah, swirl babka)
Yeast Bread Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting Bread Baking Problems
How to Get a Good Crust on Rustic Breads
How Do You Know if Your Bread is Over-proofed?
Egg Enriched Breads
*Challah (Jewish)
Portuguese Sweet Bread (Massa Sovada)
Portuguese Sweet Bread - Peter Reinhart
Light Brioche Buns (good for hamburgers & other sandwiches)
Brioche (high proportion of egg and butter to flour)
Basic Brioche Recipe (The Bread Bible, uses a sponge starter)
Sally Lunn (breakfast bread)
Shaped Loaves
*Challah (sweet, egg-rich, bread)
Difference Between Vienna, French & Italian Breads
French Bread (Pain Ordinaire Careme)
Perfect Loaf of French Bread in 3 Hours
Peter Reinhart's Italian Bread
Sicilian Bread (made w/ semolina)
Vienna Bread - Peter Reinhart's
Pan de Cristal (open crumb ciabatta)
Fougasse (Provençal Flat Bread)
Crescia ~ Umbrian Cheese Bread (Italian)
Walnut Bread (Pain aux Noix) (French whole wheat & walnut bread)
Rye Breads
Rye Sour Starter (for Jewish Sour Rye Bread, uses yeast)
Jewish Sour Rye Bread (Secrets of a Jewish Bakeruses, uses rye sour starter)
New York Deli Rye (uses sour starter from potatoes & yeast)
New York Deli Rye (Peter Reinhart, Bread Baker's Apprentice)
New York Deli Rye (The Bread Bible)
Russian Black Bread (The Bread Bible)
Swedish Limpa (light rye bread flavored w/ orange & anise seed)
Westphalian Rye Bread (heavier German-style pumpernickel)
Danish Rye Bread (Rugbrød, heavy seeded loaf made w/ cracked rye)
Pretzels & Breadsticks
Breads Using Starters Other Than Yeast
Sourdough (see next section below)
Chickpea Starter Cretan Traditional Bread (Eftazimo)
Rolls (Yeast)
See Breakfast Rolls & Buns below
Cafeteria Rolls (made w/ bread flour)
Fluffy Dinner Rolls (Cook’s Illustrated, uses tangzhong method)
Amish Dinner Rolls (made w/ mashed potatoes)
*Challah (great for sandwiches when shaped into rolls)
Sally Lunn (breakfast bread)
*Hamburg Rolls (or Hotdog)
Light Brioche Buns (good for hamburgers & other sandwiches)
Brioche (high proportion of egg & butter to flour)
Basic Brioche Recipe (The Bread Bible, uses a sponge starter)
Soft 'n Chewy Hoagie Rolls (may be perfect for Philly cheesesteaks)
Italian Hoagie Rolls (Crusty Italian Bread)
Czech Rohlik (rolls popular in Czech republic)
Breads Baked in Loaf Pans (Sandwich breads)
*Mom's Homemade White Bread (w/ breadsticks variation)
*Classic 100% Whole Wheat Bread (can add wheat bran or germ, or flaxseed meal)
Whole Wheat Sandwich Bread (wheat germ, uses overnight biga & soaker)
100% Whole Wheat Sandwich Bread (from Peter Reinhart, uses overnight biga & soaker)
Kansas Sunflower Bread (sunflower seeds, bulgur, rolled oats)
Natural Goodness Bread (rice)
*Anadama Bread (cornmeal)
Pain de Mie (pullman loaf)
English Muffin Toasting Bread (for Texas Toast)
*Butterflake Herb Loaf (pull-apart bread)
Milk Shokupan (Japanese Style White Sandwich Bread)
Batter Breads (no kneading)
Sally Lunn (18th century breakfast bread)
Fresh Apple Coffee Cake (yeast batter bread)
Sourdough
Sourdough Starter & Bread Baking
What is a Sourdough Starter (including problems w/ a Starter)
How to Make a Sourdough Starter
Waking Up & Maintaining Sourdough Starter
Drying & Storing Your Starter (long term)
Sourdough Scheduling Problems (when making bread)
Importance of Temperature in Baking Sourdough Bread
Determine Your Flour's Hydration
5 Tips to Create Incredible Dough Strength
Signs Your Sourdough has Finished Bulk
Sourdough Tips & Troubleshooting
Make Your Sourdough Bread & Starter More Or Less Sour
Homemade Rice Flour (used to dust banneton in some recipes)
Sourdough Bread Recipes
*Faith’s Sourdough Bread Recipe
Beginner Sourdough Sandwich Loaf (uses yeast)
Beginner’s Sourdough Bread (from The Perfect Loaf)
My Best Sourdough Recipe (from Maurizio Leo, The Perfect Loaf)
Chez Panisse Sourdough Bread & Starter (starter is made from potatoes)
Ed Wood’s Saudi Date Bread (w/ nuts)
Sourdough Rye Breads
Rye Sour Starter (for Jewish Rye Bread, uses a touch of yeast)
New York Deli Rye (Peter Reinhart - sourdough starter plus yeast)
Extra Sourdough (Discard) Recipes
Excess Sourdough Starter (Discard) Recipes
Seeded Sourdough Discard Granola
*Classic Sourdough Pancakes or Waffles
Sourdough English Muffins (uses a little yeast)
Sourdough Bran Muffins (uses wheat bran, no bran cereal)
Sourdough Tortillas (flour tortillas)
Easiest Sourdough Discard Crackers
Sourdough Pretzels: See King Arthur's web site for recipe
Sourdough Flatbreads (active starter)
Tartine's Sourdough Crispbreads (uses mature starter)
General Information
Types of Coffee Cakes & Sweet Breads
Baking Tip: Ingredient Temperatures in Baking
Breakfast Rolls & Buns
+Jane's Sticky Buns (pudding mix topping)
America's Test Kitchen Ultimate Sticky Buns (uses the Tangzhong method)
Flour's Famous Sticky Buns (brioche dough)
Roasted Strawberry Cream Cheese Rolls
Sweet Potato Cinnamon Rolls (can sub pumpkin)
Frangipane & Fruit-Filled Wool Rolls
English Muffins (yeast)
Peter Reinhart’s Homemade Bagels
Bialys (onion filled bread, small round in shape)
Quick Coffeecakes
*Cinnamon-Streusel Coffeecake (baking powder based)
Fresh Apple Coffee Cake (yeast batter bread, 1 rise)
Yeast Coffeecakes & Sweet Breads
Also see Holiday Breads below
*Sweet Doughs (Mom's coffee cake)
Grandma Fickelscherer's Nut Roll
Portuguese Sweet Bread (Massa Sovada or Hawaiian Bread)
Portuguese Sweet Bread - Peter Reinhart
Brioche (high proportion of egg & butter to flour)
Basic Brioche Recipe (The Bread Bible, uses a sponge starter)
Strawberry Swirl No-knead Brioche
Kanelstang (Danish Cinnamon Twist)
Kugelhopf
Kulich (similar to Italian Panettone)
Doughnuts & Fried Breads
Old-Fashioned Yeast-Raised Doughnuts (glazed, jelly or cream filled, Bomboloni - Italian filled donuts)
Apple Fritters (baking powder)
Classic Apple Fritters Doughnuts (yeast)
Berliner Pfannkuchen (German doughnuts)
Ausgezogene Krapfen (Pulled out doughnuts)
French Crullers (fried choux pastry)
Beignets {New Orleans)
Churros (Mexican)
Pastries
Handmade Puff Pastry (Rough Puff Method)
Pain au Chocolat (chocolate croissants)
French Almond Croissants (Bakery Style)
Processor Danish Pastry (Nigella Lawson)
Kringles (Wisconsin Danish Pastry)
Sfogliatella (Italian clam shell shaped pastry)
*Biscotti (Italian Anisette Cookies)
Franzbrötchen (German cinnamon pastry)
Nussstangen (German hazelnut twists)
Holiday Breads
Easter Breads
Easter Breads Around the World
Traditional Polish Easter Babka
German Osterbrot (Easter Bread)
German Easter Bread w/ Marzipan (Osterkranz)
Aachener Poschweck (German Easter Bread w/ sugar cubes)
*Chocolate Swirl Babka (w/ filling variations)
Portuguese Sweet Bread (Massa Sovada)
Portuguese Sweet Bread - Peter Reinhart
Paska (Ukrainian Easter Bread)
Czech Sweet Easter Bread (Mazanec)
Lithuanian Easter Bread (Velykos Pyragas)
Thanksgiving
*Ginger Pumpkin Bread (yeast bread)
Sourdough Ginger Pumpkin Bread (shaped like a pumpkin)
Other Holiday Breads
*Challah (Jewish - served on Sabbath & holidays)
Grandma Fickelscherer's Nut Roll (Christmas & Easter bread)
Christmas Breads
Christmas Breads Around the World
Grandma Fickelscherer's Nut Roll
Traditional Cornish Saffron Buns
Traditional Sourdough Panettone
Italian Pandoro (made w/ yeast)
Italian Pandoro (made w/ sourdough starter)
Czech Christmas Bread (Vánočka/Houska)
