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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

  • Ham-and-Cheddar Scones

    These hearty scones are flavored with cheddar cheese, ham, dill, and Dijon mustard. 1¾ cups all-purpose flour ¼ cup whole wheat flour 2 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon…

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  • Blueberry-Peach Focaccia

    This salty-sweet bread is great served as a side or snack. To bring out the flavor of the fruit, blend vanilla with olive oil and drizzle over the…

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  • Blueberry-Buttermilk Scones

    The secret to making delicate scones is handling the dough as little as possible. Another tip: If you don’t have buttermilk, you can substitute ½ cup plain yogurt…

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  • Easy-Bake Bread

    This recipe is so simple, it really is the best thing since sliced bread. Unlike most doughs, this one has a scant amount of yeast, lots of water…

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  • Rene’s Banana Bread

    Rich buttermilk, crunchy nuts and flavorful, ripe bananas make this banana bread tops. 1¼ cups sugar ½ cup butter or margarine, softened 2 eggs 1½ cups mashed very…

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  • Cream Cheese-Banana-Nut Bread

    Enjoy banana bread without all the guilt with this healthy banana bread recipe. 1¼ cups chopped pecans, divided ¼ cup butter, softened 1 8-ounce package ⅓-less-fat cream cheese,…

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  • Stromboli Bread Dough

    3¼  to 3¾ cups flour 1¼ ounce package quick-rise yeast 1 Tablespoon sugar 1 Tablespoon margarine, softened 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup warm water (120º to 130º) In…

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  • Garlic Bread

    ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter 2 garlic cloves, very finely minced ¼ cup freshly grated fresh flat-leaf parsley, coarsely chopped ¼ teaspoon coarse salt, or to taste…

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  • How to Make Whole-Wheat Bread

    How to Make Whole-Wheat Bread

    This recipe is adapted from “My Bread,” by Jim Lahey with Rick Flaste. The dough doesn’t require any kneading, but it will need almost an entire day to…

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  • Blueberry Cream-Cheese Braided Loaf

    Blueberry Cream-Cheese Braided Loaf

    6 ounces cream cheese, softened 1 egg, separated 1¼ cup powdered sugar, divided 1 (11-ounce) can Pillsbury® refrigerated breadstick dough ¾ cup fresh, frozen, or canned blueberries 2…

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