Perfect Whole Wheat Bread

This whole wheat bread recipe makes perfect sandwiches and toast, and it has a rich, complex flavor. Give this whole wheat bread a try and you'll see how easy it is to make!

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.

Multigrain Sandwich Bread

Use the powerful motor of a good food processor to make a chewy multigrain bread.

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.

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.

Whole Wheat Apricot-Walnut Bread

Lightly sweetened with maple syrup and full of apricots and walnuts, this extra hearty bread is just what you want on a cool fall morning.

Yeasted Pumpkin Bread

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

Straight Bread Dough

This is a good, solid, basic recipe, and a perfect one to use to practice all of the techniques in The Art of Baking Bread.

Simple Crusty White Bread

Baking a crusty loaf of country-style white bread at home is made simple with a Dutch oven and digital scale.

Italian-Style Bread with White Whole Wheat Recipe | Bread Baking

When I was a kid, bread fell into several categories. First, and most common, was plastic-bagged grocery store bread. Second was paper-wrapped skinny loaves of French bread. Third was paper-wrapped fatter loaves of Italian bread. And last, bakery bread, which meant there was a special event of some kind.