Chef Thomas
Scottish Bannocks
An old Highland griddle bread of oats and salt, cooked dry on a hot pan until the edges curl and the underside speckles. Dense, honest, and made to be torn warm with butter.
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Breads
Bread recipes are about fermentation, heat, and patience. This category covers daily loaves, enriched doughs, flatbreads, rolls, and quick breads.
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Chef Thomas
Selkirk Bannock
A buttery, sultana-studded Scottish bread baked low and round, glossy on top and tender within, made for the quiet hour between afternoon and evening when the kettle goes on and nothing much is asked of you.
Chef Lupita
Semita Comiteca
Chiapas gives Comitán this sweet daily bread: a round yeasted semita enriched with manteca, scored with the knife, baked until golden, and eaten with atole or coffee at merienda.
Chef Lupita
Semita Conventual Poblana
Puebla's convent bread, descended from pan de acemite, with a tight wheat crumb, sesame crust, piloncillo warmth, and the firm structure that later carried the cemita poblana.
Chef Lupita
Semitas Potosinas Seculares
San Luis Potosí's secular semita is a firm bran roll from rancho panadería, made with wheat bran, piloncillo, and manteca de cerdo, never confused with Puebla's cemita.
Chef Lupita
Semitas Sonorenses con Piloncillo
Sonora's bran-flecked whole wheat round, sweetened with dark piloncillo and enriched with manteca de cerdo. The rancher's bread, denser than central pan dulce, made for long mornings and longer roads.
Chef Lesia
Shyshky (шишки, wedding pine-cone buns)
A Ukrainian wedding can start with a small bun in your palm: golden, pinched into pine-cone scales, sweet with milk and egg, carrying the invitation before the feast begins.
Chef Takumi
Siberia (シベリア, castella with yōkan)
Siberia looks odd until the first clean slice: honeyed castella, firm red-bean yōkan, and just enough restraint to make a bakery sweet feel calm beside tea.
Chef Freja
Sigtebrod
A half-rye sourdough loaf made from sigtemel, sifted rye flour, with caraway seeds and a thread of honey through the crumb. Lighter than rugbrod, deeper than wheat bread, the quiet foundation of every Danish morning table.
Chef Ally
Skillet Cornbread with Fresh Corn Kernels
Stone-ground cornmeal and peak-season corn kernels baked in sizzling cast iron until golden on top and crackling crisp on the bottom. The corn tastes like summer because it is summer.
Chef Lesia
Smazheni Pyrizhky (смажені пиріжки, fried filled buns)
The fried cousin is all noise and color: a soft yeasted bun lowered into sunflower oil until it blisters gold, with cabbage or potato tucked inside and the seam crackling first.
Chef Thomas
Soda Bread
A four-ingredient loaf scored with a deep cross and baked hot, ready in under an hour, the kind of bread you tear into while the crust still crackles and the butter melts on contact.
Chef Thomas
Soda Farls
Four floury quarters of soft soda bread cooked on a dry griddle until the crust goes the colour of a brown paper bag, torn open while still warm and spread thickly with cold butter.
Chef Dean
Soft Bavarian Pretzels
Burnished, chewy knots with that unmistakable alkaline tang and deep mahogany color. The same technique Munich bakers have used for centuries, translated for your home oven.
Chef Ally
Soft Potato Dinner Rolls
Mashed russet potatoes folded into the dough create rolls so impossibly soft they pull apart like clouds. Golden tops, tender crumb, and the kind of honest bread that makes the whole table reach for seconds.
Chef Thomas
Soft White Baps
Pillowy, flour-dusted white baps with no crust worth the name, made for the kind of Saturday morning that calls for bacon, brown sauce, and not much conversation.
Chef Freja
Sonderjysk Rugbrod
Southern Jutland's free-standing hearth rye, risen slowly by gistning and baked on the oven floor until the crust cracks and the crumb goes dark as coffee. The loaf that keeps for a week and makes a proper oellebrod.
Chef Klaus
Sonnenblumenkernbrot
The weeknight German seed loaf that lives or dies by the soaker: toasted sunflower seeds take boiling water first, then give it back to the rye crumb as moisture.
Chef Dean
Sourdough Bagels
Dense, chewy bagels with that distinctive sourdough tang and shatteringly thin crust, made the way they were before commercial yeast arrived in America. Worth every minute of the wait.
Chef Dean
Sourdough Batard
A graceful oval loaf with a mahogany crust that shatters at the knife, revealing an open, custardy crumb. This is the shape serious bakers use to prove their craft, and now it belongs in your kitchen.
Chef Dean
Sourdough Ciabatta
Italian slipper bread transformed by wild yeast fermentation, yielding an impossibly open crumb, shattering crust, and the honest tang that only time and patience can produce.
Chef Dean
Sourdough English Muffins
Tender, tangy rounds with cratered interiors that trap pools of melted butter and jam, cooked on a griddle until golden and split with a fork to reveal the honest architecture of real bread.
Chef Dean
Sourdough Focaccia
Golden, dimpled Italian flatbread transformed by sourdough fermentation. The crust shatters. The crumb stretches in long, glossy strands. This is bread that makes people stop talking mid-sentence.
Chef Dean
Sourdough Starter from Scratch
A bubbling, fragrant culture of wild yeast captured from your own kitchen air, transforming simple flour and water into the foundation of every great sourdough loaf you'll ever bake.
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