Heritage Wheat Flours Varieties
The Village Baker: Heritage Wheat Flour
Follow Don Guerra through his baking education to discover how he came to bake with heritage wheat flour varieties to create delicious artisan bread.
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What do you want to bake?
Whether you're making your first loaf or ready to tackle sourdough, start with the kind of bread you're interested in.
Classic Ciabatta Bread Recipe
From polish to plate, this easy ciabatta bread is as forgiving as it is flavorful, making it an instant hit with the whole family.
Homemade Pretzel Recipe
For a fresh, simple, and delicious addition to your holiday spread or breadbox, look no further than these twisted treats.
Homemade Sandwich Bread Recipe
Our sandwich bread recipe gives you what you'd want from this type of bread: a loaf that doesn't call attention to itself and capably performs a supporting role.
Cinnamon Raisin Whole Wheat Bagels Recipe
Hand-shape, boil and bake your own fantastic bagels with the classic chew and crispy crust.
Old-Fashioned Quick Pumpkin Bread Recipe
The perfect fall dessert for when you’re in a pinch and don’t have much time to prep for baking.
Gluten-Free Potato Bread Recipe
Skip the cooking trials and whip up this Wolfman approved gluten-free potato bread with corn recipe.
Healthy Irish Soda Bread
This recipe hearkens back to a time when Irish soda bread was a more rustic, country affair — not all gussied up with mostly white flour.
English Muffins
Learn about English muffin history from a classic recipe and enjoy a bread with nearly 150 years of tradition and popularity throughout the world.
Can you rise to the challenge?
Step up to the hearth and test your bread vocabulary with a new Breadle puzzle each day this week, the free word-guessing game.
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Ancient Grains Podcast
Jon Thomas from EarthTouch and Lois Hoffman, author of Baking with Ancient Grains, joins our podcast to talk about the benefits of ancient grains.
NEW TO BREAD BAKING?
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Build your bread-baking skills one loaf at a time.
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Bread Making Secrets Everyone Should Know
Here are the bread making secrets everyone should know to get starting making delicious bread.
Learn the Basics
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Bake an Easy Loaf
Start with a forgiving recipe that doesn't require advanced equipment.
Bake an Easy Loaf
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Try Whole Grain
Learn how to make flavorful whole-grain bread without a dense, heavy loaf.
Try Whole Grain
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Take on Sourdough
Create a starter and learn how fermentation transforms homemade bread.
Take on Sourdough
WATCH & LEARN
No-Knead Crusty Bread
Bake up a fresh loaf of artisan bread without any kneading or complex mixing steps. The no-knead crusty bread recipe from "Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day" is perfect for beginners and experts alike.
Getting Started
Whole-Grain Baking
No Knead Bread Recipe
Discover this ridiculously easy — and cheap! — five minutes a day for fresh-baked bread technique that revolutionizes home baking.
Get the RecipeOld World Bread with Wheat, Rye and Barley
With this Old World bread recipe, you'll get a glimpse into a human dietary mainstay for hundreds, if not thousands of years.
Get the RecipeHigh Rise, Multi-Grain Bread
The author had years of experience baking multigrain bread but couldn’t get it to rise high until she observed this method.
Get the RecipeMultigrain Sandwich Bread
Sandwich Heaven. Toast Nirvana. If you want a nice, square loaf with a uniform crust all the way around, follow this step-by-step tutorial for baking a perfectly sized sandwich bread.
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DON'T GIVE UP ON THAT LOAF
Having Trouble With Your Bread?
Find out what went wrong - and how to fix it next time.
From our Kitchen
Make Beautiful Artisan Bread!
Our favorite ways to bake beautiful bread at home.
Chocolate Bread
Chocolate Hazelnut Bread Recipe
Embrace the rich flavors of chocolate and roasted hazelnuts in this sweet, milky-flavored bread. Add in plump, golden raisins for some extra sweetness.
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Sourdough
Artisan Chocolate Chip Sourdough Bread
Combined with the flavors of honey, vanilla, and cinnamon, this is a chocolate chip sourdough bread your kids are going to request again and again.
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Master Recipe
Whole Grain Artisan Bread
We’re showcasing a free-form loaf that’s rich in whole wheat, shaped as an elongated oval, and topped with a delicious and nutritious seed mixture. It bakes easily and makes terrific sandwiches.
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