Breads
Bread changes a meal through crust, crumb, and the way it carries other flavors. Dinner rolls, cornbread, flatbreads, muffins, biscuits, and yeast loaves give this collection several starting points. Choose a dough or finished bread suited to the meal, whether you want something to slice, tear, fill, or serve warm alongside another dish.
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Bagels
Bagels offer a chewy bread with a shape suited to slicing and filling. The collection includes a bagel preparation and spinach-and-cheese bagel rings for a different savory approach.
Biscuits
Garlic cheddar biscuits, savory slab biscuits, and blueberry-ginger variations offer different ways to work flavor into a tender bread. Browse biscuits for a meal accompaniment or a breakfast serving.
Cornbread
Cornmeal gives these breads a distinct texture, with pumpkin, chiles, and other additions changing their character. The collection includes sweet-leaning and savory cornbreads for serving beside a meal.
Croissants
Croissants depend on folded layers of dough and butter for their distinctive pastry structure. These recipes include dough preparations and finished croissants for cooks ready to work through the stages.
Doughs & Bread Bases
A prepared dough is the starting point for a loaf, dumpling, or pizza. These bread bases gather foundational recipes, including pizza dough and family dumplings, for building another dish.
Flatbreads & Tortillas
Flour tortillas, skillet naan, cottage cheese flatbread, and arepas offer breads with different grains and textures. Browse flatbreads for wrapping, filling, or serving alongside a meal.
Muffins
Muffins bring fruit, spices, crumbs, or cream cheese into an individual baked serving. Apple, lemon, and cinnamon preparations offer different starting points for breakfast or a small sweet bite.
Quick Breads
Quick breads use approaches that avoid a long yeast rise, with sweet and savory flavors represented here. Tomato-herb bread and pumpkin cornbread show the range of the collection.
Rolls & Buns
Dinner rolls, cinnamon rolls, and garlic knots bring dough into portions made for sharing. Choose a savory bread for the meal or a filled, sweet roll for another serving occasion.
Scones
Scones can carry savory ingredients as readily as fruit. Bacon and dried tomato, ham and cheddar, and blueberry-buttermilk recipes offer three distinct directions for these portioned bakes.
Yeast Breads & Loaves
Yeast doughs develop into loaves and other breads through mixing, resting, and baking. Soft pretzels and bacon bread offer starting points for cooks interested in the texture that fermentation can build.
In this collection
Basic Biscuits
1 package yeast ½ cup lukewarm water 5 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking soda ½ teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon baking powder 2 tablespoons sugar ¾ cup solid…
Olive-Filled Rolls
The first step in making these rolls is to prepare a sponge, or starter dough. You will need only a portion of the sponge; the rest can be…
Peasant Bread
This recipe calls for bread flour; its higher gluten content makes a chewy bread. It is available in supermarkets and health food stores. 2 cups plus 1 tablespoon…
Ciabatta
This Italian bread is good cut into long slices or split open for sandwiches. 1¼ cups plus 2 tablespoons warm water (100 degrees to 110 degrees) 5 teaspoons…
Sponge
Sponge can be refrigerated for one week or frozen for up to three months. Use it to make ciabatta, peasant bread, and olive-filled rolls. 1½ cups warm water,…
Ciabatta
The amount of water needed in this recipe will vary according to the temperature and humidity of your kitchen. On a cool, dry day you may need up…
Ciabatta
Make restaurant-menu ciabatta bread at home. All you need are six ingredients. Starter ¼ teaspoon regular active dry yeast ½ cup water 1 cup Gold Medal® Better for…
Ciabatta Bread
A flavorful artisan bread that is easy enough to make at home. 4 cups bread flour ½ teaspoon salt 1½ teaspoons sugar ¼ cup warm water (100°F to…
Croissants
1 cup (2 sticks) Fleischman’s Margarine, cut into chunks 1¼ cups milk 4 teaspoons sugar 1 teaspoon salt 3 to 4 cups unsifted flour ⅓ cup cornstarch ⅓…
Butter Croissants
Do as the French do—start the day with coffee and a croissant. 1 recipe croissant dough (2¾ pound), chilled Roll out and cut dough: Cut dough in half…
