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Italian breads +3

Focaccia

I started making focaccia when I needed to find a use for some leftover pizza dough. I enriched it with olive oil, topped it with kosher salt, and baked it in a pan. We ate it with olive oil and balsamic, and it was lovely.

Prep20m
Cook20–40m
Serves2–10
French breads

Baguettes

Baguettes are a crusty, airy bread, perfect for snacking, sandwiches, and with soup.

Prep2½h
Cook20m
USA breads +1

Chef John’s hamburger buns

Based on a recipe from Fooooood Wishes Dot Com. If you didn’t sing that in your head, go find John’s videos on YouTube and watch them until you do.

Cook15–18m
Serves8 buns
British breads

English muffins

Simple English muffins that I very occasionally make to feed my McMuffin cravings.

Cook12m
Servesabout 14 muffins
Italian breads

Lazy pizza dough (2022)

Some days I just want an easy pizza dough. I don’t want it 3 days from now, I just know I have food in the fridge that needs to be used up, and a pizza is the most palatable way to do it. This recipe is based on a Serious Eats recipe, and I …

Serves3 medium pizzas and a focaccia
Mennonite breads

Oma’s kipfels

A Kipfel is traditionally a crescent-shaped yeast bread, one of the oldest styles of pastries.

Italian breads

Pizza dough 2021 edition

This is an improved dough tuned to work easily with a 6 L stand mixer. It’s high-hydration and can be sticky, but the extra water provides a better ferment and lift. It also works well for focaccia with more oil in the pan and whatever …

Italian breads

Pizza dough 2022 edition

This is another iteration of my pizza dough recipe, based on some experimentation in late 2021. This is a medium-high hydration dough, optionally reinforced with additional gluten for structure and chew. I skip the autolyse step now, which …

Cook10–15m
Canadian breads

Ultimate every-bun recipe

This is a pretty-much-any bun recipe based on Joshua Weissman’s famous multipurpose dough. It’s soft, and works for burger, dinner, hot dog buns, and likely other softish buns.

USA breads

Hoagie rolls

Soft, chewy hoagie rolls built for serious sandwiches. A hoagie roll is a sort of baguette for sub-style sandwiches, and these swap in for beef dips, subs, po’ boys, or even hamburger buns (halved). They have body and a bit of crust, and …

Serves4 rolls
Indian breads

Naan

Naan is a simple, delicious bread, best covered with garlic and ghee.

Prep30m
Cook20m
Serves4–6