Breeding a better bread Over the past century, the cultivation and processing of wheat has led to strains of grain that are less nutritious, less flavorful, and more vulnerable to climate change. The researchers at Breadlab,...

Below is neat news segment about the Breadlab at Washington State University, where researchers are on a quest to optimize wheat's flavor, nutrition, baking properties, yield--and resistance to disease, pests, heat, and drought.

Beginner Fresh Milled Flour Sandwich Bread YouTube video by Breadtopia

Step-by-step easy whole wheat sandwich bread video:

Beginner Whole Wheat Sandwich Bread Whether you’re new to whole wheat flour or an experienced baker just looking to make a simple, nutrient-rich bread, this easy recipe delivers a soft and flavorful sandwich bread in just a few hours.

Beginner sandwich bread recipe🌾for super flavorful wholesome bread with video instructions, simple ingredients, and about 20 minutes of active time.

How to Roll and Cut Ravioli YouTube video by Breadtopia

Forming ravioli with fresh extra-fancy durum pasta dough🌾

How to Make Pasta Dough YouTube video by Breadtopia

Recipe and tips for making fresh pasta 🌾

Fancy Durum Pasta: Ravioli, Spaghetti and More Making homemade pasta with Breadtopia’s extra-fancy durum flour is such a joy both in how the dough handles and the final flavor and texture of whatever pasta you make—whether ravioli, spaghetti…

Breadtopia has a new flour: organic extra-fancy durum. The silky texture and buttery flavor are fantastic. Check out our pasta dough formula with this flour—for any shape, even spaghetti—and our recipe for ravioli with asparagus and mushroom fillings.

Sourdough Peruvian Pan Chuta YouTube video by Breadtopia

Pan Chuta is a soft, fragrantly spiced bread from Peru and in this recipe, we use some traditional elements like chamomile tea and anise seeds—but paired with sourdough and a flavorful sifted flour. The result is a delicious centerpiece bread, perfect for breakfast or snacking: b7p.org/CZF2w

Guyanese Tennis Rolls Guyanese tennis rolls are pillowy soft, sweet, and fragrant with lemon zest. Enjoy them in the traditional way with a thick slice of cheddar cheese or with butter, jam, or plain. They’re delicious for...

Guyanese tennis rolls are pillowy soft, sweet, and fragrant with lemon zest. Try our recipe with yeast or sourdough, and enjoy these delicious rolls in the traditional way with a thick slice of cheddar cheese, or with butter or even plain. Learn more here: b7p.org/GR5M5

Chestnut Bread Chestnuts add a delicious nutty-potato flavor to these bread recipes. Use ground roasted chestnuts with bread flour for a more airy bread or add chestnut flour into the mix to deepen the flavor and…

We have two delicious chestnut bread recipes new on the blog🌾🌰inspired by chestnut breads from the mountainous regions of Italy and Spain. Their flavor hints at sweet nutty-potato and the texture is so uniquely soft, particularly the bread with chestnut flour in addition to mashed chestnuts.

“No Soda” Irish Soda Bread Soda bread is a traditional quick bread from Ireland and in this recipe we’ve slowed it down for delicious flavor and digestibility—and to show that it is possible to use different leavening and still...

We asked the question, "Can you get a tender-soft crumb with a long fermentation instead of baking soda?"
The answer is a resounding yes!
🌾Check out our unconventional "no soda" Irish soda bread recipe for Saint Patrick's Day and choose sourdough or yeast leavening.

Experimenting with multiple wheat varieties I happened to have a number of different grains on hand and decided to play. I mixed up 100g of starter, 10g salt, and 400g water, then mixed in 150g KA bread flour. (My normal loaf is a mix of KA and...

Neat experiment by a baker in the Breadtopia community forum:

Salted Maple Pie Salted maple pie is decadently rich, sweet, and perfectly salty. This signature dish from Sister Pie Bakery in Detroit, Michigan appears in the bakery’s 2018 cookbook and has been reprinted in…

Pi Day, 3.14, aka March 14 is coming up and here's some inspiration for celebrating this holiday of bakers and mathematicians. We added a fresh milled whole wheat crust to the decadent and uniquely delicious Salted Maple Pie recipe of Sister Pie Bakery in Detroit🌾🥧

We're excited to have Davia Delgado of Raven Cakes Bakery on the Breadtopia blog, sharing her recipe for authentic German pretzels. She shows us how to make deeply flavorful pretzel dough and safely use lye for the classic chewy, shiny pretzel crust that's so delicious. Learn more: b7p.org/5CkFl

Breadtopia Select Sourdough This tasty sourdough bread is made with Breadtopia’s stone milled sifted organic bread flour, which is rich in nutrients and nutty flavor but light and airy in its performance.

Last week I grabbed a bag of Breadtopia’s Select Organic Bread Flour to play with and boy was it a satisfying experience. Learn more about this flour and recipe on our blog: b7p.org/Oy1ok

Scoring Buckwheat Sourdough Bread YouTube video by Breadtopia

Here's a quick tutorial on a pretty score pattern #breadart #eatwithyoureyesfirst #buckwheat #sourdough

Can this dough be saved? Part 2 This post details one way to save an overly slack bread dough “puddle” and figure out how it got that way and what you can do to prevent it happening in future bakes with the same ingredients.

Salvaging and diagnosing a dough puddle🌾How did it get that way? (Hint: not overfermentation. That was the focus of Part 1.) And how to bake a freestanding bread the next time -- though this pan bread with a honeycomb crumb is certainly also worth repeating.

Sourdough Cornbread Sourdough cornbread has both deep flavor and a fluffy light texture because of one added step in the process: pre-fermenting all of the flour. This should make the cornbread more digestible…

I'd been wanting to make a fermented cornbread recipe and we recently got organic yellow dent corn back in stock🌽The flavor and softness of this bread are everything I hoped for: b7p.org/q3CYF

Homemade Pizza Rolls Something as delicious as pizza rolls aka mini calzones doesn’t have to be an ultra processed food. Try this iconic 20th century snack using fresh, simple ingredients and including whole wheat flour…

Looking for a homebaked Superbowl snack? Check out our pizza rolls recipe: b7p.org/Kf0Jd

Brioche Buns with Fruit Custard Decorated with fresh heart-shaped strawberry slices, these soft and delicately sweet brioche buns are topped with homemade custard in the flavor of your choosing: vanilla, lemon, or raspberry.

Here's a Valentine's recipe for delicately sweet brioche buns with a fruit custard topping. You can choose from vanilla, lemon, or raspberry custard, as well as instant yeast or a sweet stiff sourdough levain: b7p.org/gobHy

Bauernbrot, Farmer’s Bread Bauernbrot or “Farmer’s Bread” is a dense and flavorful bread from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland made with rye and wheat flours. This version features a yeast poolish and a rye sourdough…

Bauernbrot or Farmer's Bread tastes phenomenal with butter, cheese, and cold cuts. Our recipe for this flavorful bread has homemade German bread spice "Brotgewürz" and two pre-ferments. Check it out here: b7p.org/fG23d

Wow your eyes and taste buds with this Black Sesame Swirl Sourdough. It's easy to make black sesame paste with a spice grinder or food processor, and laminating two doughs together makes cool swirls. We also tested seed-crust "glues" and egg white did no better than water🌾https://b7p.org/tA3Gz

Why Are Root Beer Floats Special? Because Science! Daniel Gritzer and Swetha Sivakumar answer your food science questions.

Bread notes from an episode of The Sporkful podcast:
6:05 A test of flour absorbency and ambient humidity; it's a measurable difference but minor.
23:15 Discussion about bread storage (balancing breathing and enclosure), freezing (double-bag), and reheating "starches best served at 60C/140F."

Sesame Flatbreads Enjoy the nutty flavor and crackly texture of these sourdough flatbreads that are coated with toasted sesame seeds which won’t fall off during baking or eating.

Sesame Flatbreads🌾No mess seeds that stay on the bread because of an application technique from our Lebanese Purse Bread recipe. Dip the dough in honey-water, then in the seeds, and finally roll the dough into a circle, embedding the seeds into it. ⁠

Large Rye Sourdough Bread Here’s a large and versatile sourdough bread that is packed with rye and whole wheat flavor. Bake the dough in a long pullman-type pan or scale the recipe to fit a smaller baker. The slices are great…

This large rye sourdough bread is built for days and days of sandwiches and toast. The recipe has bread flour for lift and softness, whole wheat flour for sweet nuttiness, and plenty of rye flour for deep earthy flavor and extra slow staling.

Easy Cinnamon Rolls These easy cinnamon rolls are soft, fluffy, and swirled with a delicious cinnamon-cardamon filling. Perfect for beginners, they come together quickly with whatever flour you have on hand and the photo...

Easy Cinnamon Rolls🌾This recipe works with different flours and mixes up quickly. If you have a warm spot for the dough to rise, you can start this dough at dawn and eat warm cinnamon rolls for a late breakfast that same day.

Pinyonate — Honey and Nut Pastry Pinyonate or pinonato is a pastry of crunchy honey-coated small biscuits and nuts from the historical Sephardic Jewish community of the Greek island Rhodes. It’s quite tasty and unique…

I pieced together information about this relatively unknown pastry via a pdf of a museum's cookbook, the posts of Stella's Sephardic Table and a family recipe printed in the @washingtonpost.com almost 50 years ago.

Sourdough Himbasha YouTube video by Breadtopia

Himbasha is a delicious Eritrean and Ethiopian flat bread that's tender-soft and slightly sweet. It’s usually leavened with yeast but we've developed a sourdough version with orange zest and black sesame seeds. ⁠
Recipe link in the video description:
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