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In this collection, you will find all of my best bread recipes, including my mother’s peasant bread, this popular recipe for simple sourdough bread (lots of helpful tips included!), a moist and perfectly sweet banana bread recipe, the best-ever sourdough pizza crust, the best focaccia bread recipe, a reader favorite, and excellent no-knead pita bread. If you are looking for even more bread recipes, my cookbook, Bread Toast Crumbs, is all about simple, no-knead bread baking.

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Best Beginner Bread Recipes

In this collection of beginner bread recipes, you will find super-simple, no-knead bread recipes, most of which can be on the table in under four hours.

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Sourdough Bread Recipes

If you can make yeast bread, you can make sourdough. While sourdough requires a bit more time than yeast-leavened bread, most of the time is hands-off, and the result — a tangy, open-crumbed loaf of bread — is well worth the patience.

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The Best No Knead Brioche Buns!

The dough for these no-knead brioche buns comes together in no time, and the buns are so light and airy.

Yeasted Bread Recipes

If you can whisk and stir, you can make bread. There is nothing to it. With a few tools simple tools and ingredients, you can have delicious homemade bread on the table in under four hours start to finish.

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No-Knead Three-Seed Bread

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Quick Breads

Quick breads are breads that are leavened with a chemical leavener such as baking soda or baking powder as opposed to yeast.

Simple Irish Brown Bread

One-Bowl Lemon-Blueberry Quick Bread

Perfectly Moist Pumpkin Bread

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Pizza Recipes

Crowd-pleasing and completely comforting, homemade pizza is nothing more than bread dough baked with toppings. Find recipes for both yeast-leavened and sourdough pizza crusts as well as super-delicious Detroit-style pizza in this collection of pizza recipes.

Homemade Sicilian-Style Pizza

Thin and Crispy Gluten-Free Pizza Crust

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Simple, 4-Ingredient Homemade Pizza Dough

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Lofty Popovers (Yorkshire Pudding)
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My Mother’s Peasant Bread: The Best Easiest Bread You Will Ever Make
Homemade Sourdough English Muffins
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