Category Archives: Yeast Breads

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Parsnip Nutmeg Bread

Week Twenty-Four: Breads With Vegetables Fair warning: if you don’t like parsnips, don’t make this bread.  Why on earth you would shun a parsnip, though, is beyond me.  I’ve most often compared them to “white carrots”, which is exactly what … Continue reading

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Spinach-Filled Basil Baguette

Week Twenty-Four: Breads With Vegetables When searching for a recipe that involved spinach in bread, I found recipes that fell squarely into two camps: one that involved marbling spinach into a plain (often purchased pre-made and frozen) dough, and another … Continue reading

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Potato Bread

Week Twenty-Four: Breads With Vegetables Since last week was devoted to breads made with fruits, I thought it only appropriate to focus on vegetable breads as a follow up for this week.  One of the first ideas that came to … Continue reading

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Chocolate Apricot Yeast Bread

Week Twenty-Three: Breads With Fruit The bread for today is an unusual chocolate bread.  Most chocolate breads that I’ve made get their flavor from either cocoa powder sifted into the flour, from bits of chocolate mixed into the dough, or … Continue reading

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Apple Challah

Week Twenty-Three: Breads With Fruits I know, this is not a braided bread.  Therefore, some might say it’s not “real” challah.  But in the parlance of our times, challah refers to any fairly standard egg-rich, sweet bread made with water only, so … Continue reading

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Blueberry Oatmeal Bread

Week Twenty-Three: Breads With Fruits Blueberries are one of my all-time favorite foods.  I love the little snap as you bite through the skin, I love their jammy, almost-tart sweetness, I love the way they stain your fingers and lips.  … Continue reading

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Mango Honey Bread

Week Twenty-Three: Breads With Fruit I wasn’t kidding yesterday, when I mentioned making a sourdough bread with mangoes.  I recently stumbled across this recipe on the King Arthur Flour website, and I just had to try it.  The original didn’t … Continue reading

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Focaccia di Frutti

Week Twenty-Three: Breads With Fruit Fruit is one of those foods that you don’t generally associate with yeast bread.  Well, I don’t, anyway.  I’m not a big jelly or jam fan (with the exception of my Nanny’s grape jelly, which … Continue reading

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Parsley Pesto Bread

Week Twenty-Two: Breads With Herbs Parsley is one of those magnificently overlooked and underappreciated herbs.  Many people, conditioned to believe that it is purely for garnishing plates, don’t even give it a second glance.  But parsley can absolutely hold its own … Continue reading

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Gluten-Free Almond Honey Bread (Or Cake)

Week Twenty-One: Gluten-Free Breads Okay, you guys.  This week, I have literally been counting my blessings, thanking my lucky stars, and everything in between, that I do not have celiac disease.  Not that I’m saying anything about lifestyle choices, or what … Continue reading

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