Bread Baking Blog

Artisan bread recipes, baking tips, and inspiration from the Bread Experience kitchen.

  • Family Baking Traditions and Yeast Rolls

    Family Baking Traditions and Yeast Rolls

    The theme for December for the HBinFive Baking Group is Family Traditions. I have lot’s of family traditions, and, as you can imagine, a lot…

  • Hutzelbrot with Dried Fruit

    Hutzelbrot with Dried Fruit

    In my previous post on 66 Percent Sourdough Rye, I mentioned that I would be making a unique Christmas Bread using leftover bread cubes. Here…

  • Developing a Sourdough Rye Starter

    Developing a Sourdough Rye Starter

    The method outlined in this post can be used to create a rye sourdough starter completely from scratch by mixing a portion of rye flour…

  • 66 Percent Sourdough Rye

    66 Percent Sourdough Rye

    It took me awhile, but I’m becoming a fan of rye, particularly rye breads made with sourdough. There are many advantages to using sourdough in…

  • Vanocka Christmas Braid

    Vanocka Christmas Braid

    I made Vanocka for a Christmas party this weekend.  This was a gathering of some really neat folks so I wanted to bring something special. …

  • Sourdough Seed Bread

    Sourdough Seed Bread

    I decided to focus on sourdough this month and so did the Mellow Bakers.  The first bread on the list for December is a Sourdough…