Long Loaves Recipe | Bread Baking

I'm not going to call these French bread or baguettes, because they are neither. What they are, though, is good. My secret weapon, semolina flour, adds a richness to the bread that I love. These are softer loaves. Still substantial, but also a bit airy. They're perfect for sandwiches—soft enough to bite into without breaking teeth or gouging the roof of your mouth with sharp crusty shards, but hearty enough to stand up to whatever fillings you choose.

Yeasted Pumpkin Bread

Enjoy a seasonal twist on traditional sandwich bread with this yeasted pumpkin loaf.

How to Make a Sourdough Bread Loaf

This recipe produces a classic oval pain au levain—a sourdough loaf that's lightly tangy and deeply flavorful.

Peanut Butter Bread with White Whole Wheat Recipe | Bread Baking

I've made peanut butter bread a number of different ways, but I didn't think about adding whole wheat flour to the recipe until recently. White whole wheat is the perfect ingredient, adding its own subtle nuttiness to the taste, and more texture as well. If you're trying to add more whole grains to your diet, this is a pretty unobtrusive way to get them in. Everyone will notice the peanut flavor and no one will notice the grains.

Malted Barley Dark Rye Sandwich Loaf Recipe | Bread Baking

For this loaf, I used a pale chocolate malt. The grains smelled a bit like chocolate with a hint of coffee. One of my previous loaves used a darker roasted malt called Pearl Black that smelled very much like roasted coffee and had a much stronger flavor in the finished loaf. If you don't have dark malted barley, you could simply leave it out and use this recipe to make a standard rye. It will be a lot paler, and not as complex, but still a nice loaf of rye.

Hint of Rye Bread

[Photograph: Donna Currie] If you don't have a clay baker, you can bake this loaf in a cast iron dutch oven. It won't release steam, but it will retain the moisture from the bread as it bakes. One thing to...

Whole Wheat Sandwich Bread with Oats and Pecans

This recipe for hearty wheat bread with oats hails from Amy's Bread in New York City. It's chock full of oats and pecans to make for a beautifully texture bread perfect for toast and sandwiches.

Sticky Malt Loaf

For those unacquainted with the classic snack, malt loaf is a sweet loaf that normally contains some sort of dried fruit. Dense and small, this loaf is served as a snack between meals spread with lots of soft butter beside a strong cup of tea. This particular version has a lighter texture than many malt loaves found across the pond, but has all the sweet malty flavor that is a unique, even craveable, part of this quickbread.

70-Percent Hydration Bread Recipe | Bread Baking

Stretch and fold is about the easiest ways to handle a dough with very high hydration. But stretch and fold can be used with doughs of lesser hydration as well, as long as it's wet enough to stretch easily. If you've never tried this technique and you've always kneaded with a machine or by hand for up to 10 minutes, it will seem impossible that a few simple folds will give enough structure to the dough. But it works.

Fresh Thyme Bread with Olive Oil

There's nothing quite like the aroma of fresh bread baking in your oven. There really isn't. When it comes to baking bread, there are two major schools of thought. There is bread that can be