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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

  • Croissant Dough

    It’s important not to try to halve this recipe. When you need only a half recipe of dough, as for the pains au chocolat, use the rest of…

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  • Croissants Step-by-Step

    1 cup butter, softened 2 (¼-ounce) envelopes active dry yeast 3 tablespoons sugar, divided ½ cup warm water (105° to 115°) ⅔ cup milk 4 to 4½ cups…

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  • Classic Croissants

    3 to 3½ cups all-purpose flour ⅓ cup corn starch 2 tablespoons sugar 1 envelope Fleischmann’s RapidRise Yeast 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup milk ¼ cup butter or…

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  • Croissants

    Ingredients 1/3 cup warm water, (110 degrees to 115 degrees) 1 package dry-active yeast 1 tablespoon sugar 1 tablespoon table salt 1 1/3 cups warm milk, (110 degrees to…

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  • Ham ‘N’ Swiss Loaf

    3½ to 4 cups all-purpose flour 2 envelopes FLEISCHMANN’S RapidRise Yeast 2 tablespoons sugar ¼ teaspoon salt 1 cup very warm water (120 to 130oF) ¼ cup prepared…

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  • Half-Time Bread Bowl

    1½ to 2 cups all-purpose flour 1 cup whole wheat flour 1 envelope FLEISCHMANN’S RapidRise Yeast 1 teaspoon dried dill weed 1 teaspoon caraway seed 1 teaspoon salt…

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  • Fresh Bread Bowls

    5½ to 6 cups all-purpose flour 2 tablespoons sugar 2 envelopes FLEISCHMANN’S RapidRise Yeast 1½ teaspoons salt 1 cup water 1 cup milk 2 tablespoon butter or margarine…

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  • Bread Bowls

    3 cups bread flour 1 envelope Fleischmann’s RapidRise Yeast ¾ teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon sugar ¾ cup + 1 tablespoon water ½ cup milk 1 tablespoon butter OR…

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  • Chicken Parmesan Loaf

    Dough 3½ to 4 cups all-purpose flour ¼ cup grated Parmesan cheese 2 envelope FLEISCHMANN’S RapidRise Yeast 1 tablespoon sugar 1 teaspoon salt 1¼ cups water 2 Tablespoons…

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  • Asiago Bacon Breakfast Bread

    ⅓ cup milk ⅓ cup water 2 tablespoons butter OR margarine 1 envelope Fleischmann’s® Active Dry Yeast 2 eggs 1¾ cups all-purpose flour 1 tablespoon sugar ½ teaspoon…

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