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Bread & Savory Pastry Recipes

The Old New England Corn-and-Rye Brown Bread Recipe
Third Bread
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Basic White Bread
An Easy Loaf for Every Day
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Onion Tart
On the Inspiration of Zwiebelkuchen
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Not Focaccia
Apart from the kind of focaccia that’s simply a piece of bread dough stretched wide and baked directly on a hearth, I’ve never been impressed by…
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Tender Raisin Bread
The egg, milk, and butter make this a form of brioche. The folding technique, from James MacGuire, is described in his baguette recipe in issue 73+74.
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Walnut Bread
I first came to appreciate walnut bread when I tasted it with goat’s-milk cheese, but like walnuts themselves, the bread goes well with most cheeses…
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Making Your Own Rye Bread
By James MacGuire
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Gougère (Gruyère Puff Pastry)
The savory gougère, its crunchy outside contrasting with the tender inside, is made in various parts of France but associated especially with Burgundy.
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Flaky Crust
[Read the article "Flaky Crust, Sugary Crust"]
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Mary Randolph’s Corn Bread
Mary Randolph published this recipe in her fine cookbook The Virginia Housewife, in 1824, before chemical baking powders transformed American baking.
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Flatbread
This dough is useful for various European flatbreads that once were, and in some cases still are, baked directly on the hearth of a fireplace or oven …
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Farinata (Chickpea Pancake from Liguria)
Once a common street food, farinata is a vast chickpea pancake, soft and floppy, baked in special heavy copper pans about a yard wide; you eat pieces…
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