Bauernbrot or “Farmer’s Bread” is a dense and flavorful bread from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland made with rye and wheat flours. This version features a yeast poolish and a rye sourdough, as well as brotgewürz (bread spice mix), which is made of caraway, anise, fennel, and coriander seeds. Enjoy this intense but balanced bread with butter, cold cuts, cheese and perhaps a beer.
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January 24, 2026
Bauernbrot, Farmer’s Bread
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January 17, 2026
Black Sesame Swirl Sourdough
Black sesame swirl sourdough bread will wow your eyes and taste buds. It’s easy to make black sesame paste from scratch with a spice grinder or food processor, and laminating two doughs together not only makes cool swirls, it strengthens the final dough for a nice airy crumb.
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January 10, 2026
Sesame Flatbreads
Enjoy the nutty flavor and crackly texture of these sourdough flatbreads that are coated with toasted sesame seeds which won’t fall off during baking or eating.
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January 3, 2026
Large Rye Sourdough Bread
Here’s a large and versatile sourdough bread that is packed with rye and whole wheat flavor. Bake the dough in a long pullman-type pan or scale the recipe to fit a smaller baker. The slices are great for toast, dipping in hummus and olive oil and making all sorts of sandwiches, from grilled cheese to PB&J.
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December 20, 2025
Easy Cinnamon Rolls
These easy cinnamon rolls are soft, fluffy, and swirled with a delicious cinnamon-cardamon filling. Perfect for beginners, they come together quickly with whatever flour you have on hand and the photo gallery shows how much to let the dough rise.
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December 13, 2025
Pinyonate — Honey and Nut Pastry
Pinyonate or pinonato is a pastry of crunchy honey-coated small biscuits and nuts from the historical Sephardic Jewish community of the Greek island Rhodes. It’s quite tasty and unique, almost like a sweet and sticky pretzel. Enjoy pinyonate for a dessert or as a snack with tea or coffee.
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December 6, 2025
Sourdough Himbasha
Himbasha is a soft, slightly sweet Eritrean and Ethiopian flat bread with cut designs on its surface. Also written as Ambasha and H’mbasha, this bread can simply be enriched with oil and sugar, or it can feature inclusions like citrus zest, nigella or sesame seeds, spices, and raisins. Enjoy Himbasha with coffee or tea, plain or paired with cheese or marmalade.
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December 4, 2025
Holiday Shipping 2025
Here are some holiday shipping deadlines from UPS to maximize the likelihood of getting your stuff to you by the 24th: UPS Ground: the farther you are from Iowa, the earlier you need to order, but let's say around Dec. 16th to be safe in most areas. UPS 3 Day Select: Dec. 19 UPS 2nd [...] More -
November 28, 2025
Black Friday – Cyber Monday Sale
Our Black Friday - Cyber Monday coupon code grants 10% off all items in our store with these exclusions: Any item that is already on sale Countertop mixers, flakers, grain mills More -
November 22, 2025
The Slow Lazy Method with Instant Yeast
Using a very small amount of yeast allows for a slow, lazy process that nonetheless results in delicious and beautiful bread. This low stress method deepens the fermentation flavors, softens the bran in whole grain flours, and develops gluten passively.
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November 15, 2025
Holiday Gift Guide 2025
A curated selection of gift ideas for the bakers (or soon-to-be bakers) in your life.
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November 8, 2025
Pecan Tart with an Heirloom Wheat Crust
This unique and delicious tart from 1914 has a pecan custard filling and a meringue topping. It’s a little less sweet than the classic pecan pie, allowing more of the nut flavor to come through, and we’ve added our own twist: a flavorful crust made from the leading wheat in the U.S. from the same era: Heirloom Turkey Red.
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November 1, 2025
Pumpkin Shaped Bread
Baking bread that looks like a pumpkin is fun and it can be a pretty centerpiece on your autumn table. In this bread technique post we explore and detail various tips to get the shape right and to achieve an orange color on the bread without achieving an orange color on your entire kitchen.
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October 25, 2025
Seeded Sourdough Everyday Bread
This seeded sourdough everyday bread is packed with flavor, texture, and nutrients from whole wheat flour, chia, and hemp seeds. The crumb is soft and chewy with a little crackle from the seeds and the crust is soft and nutty — perfect for sandwiches or toast.
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October 18, 2025
Cranberry Orange Yeast Bread
This cranberry orange yeast bread has delicious fruit and yeast aromas and a light sweetness. Enjoy it plain, with cream cheese, or slathered in butter for a more decadent experience.
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October 11, 2025
Sourdough Soba Noodles
These sourdough soba noodles are a partly fermented take on traditional Japanese buckwheat noodles. We’ve added fermentation flavors, enhanced digestibility, and if you have a countertop grain mill, fresh buckwheat flour to these delicious, nutrient rich noodles.
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October 4, 2025
Sourdough Rye Country Bread
This sourdough rye country bread is bursting with earthy notes and baking spice aromas alongside flavors that develop from the almost 24-hour fermentation process. It’s an ideal bread to pair with stews, dip in olive oil, or use for hearty sandwiches.
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September 27, 2025
Apple Raspberry Pie
Apple and raspberry complement each other so nicely in this pie filling, balancing sweetness, texture, and acidity. While you can use any flour for the crust, white Kamut adds a unique butteriness and almost phyllo-like texture to the flaky crust.
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September 20, 2025
Easy Refrigerator Dough
No bandwidth for a complicated process? This easy dough mixes up fast and after rising once, it can be refrigerated and used all at once or in pieces throughout the next week. Make a loaf, rolls, or pitas with basic equipment found in most kitchens.
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September 6, 2025
Sourdough Pretzel Buns and Bagels
These sourdough pretzel buns and bagels are almost hyper-palatable, meaning they’re so delicious and squishy-chewy that you will gobble them up. However they have fiber and nutrients and actually satisfy your hunger, making them a perfect snack or breakfast: convenient, tasty, and full of wholesome ingredients.
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August 30, 2025
Culurgiones, Sardinian Potato-Stuffed Pasta
Culurgiones are a beautiful and delicious pasta from Sardinia that will awaken your taste buds with the combination of mint, cheese, and potato, as well as exercise your fine motor skills as you shape the dough into wheat spikelets or “sa spighitta.”
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August 23, 2025
Sprouted Rye Sourdough with Olives and Tarragon
Rye, olives, and tarragon make an aromatic, tasty combination in this unique sourdough bread. Tarragon offers herbal licorice notes that peek through the robust olive and earthy-sweet sprouted rye flavors. Enjoy the bread plain or paired with butter, cheese, olive oil, tomatoes and more.
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August 16, 2025
Sourdough Baguettes with Einkorn Wheat
Enjoy crispy, chewy baguettes with the unique flavor and aroma of ancient einkorn wheat. We tested two ratios of strong bread flour and einkorn whole grain flour and both options yield easy to handle dough and an open crumb.
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August 8, 2025
Rye Brownie Bites
This adaptation of The Violet Bakery’s famous chocolate rye brownies uses less sugar and salt, and a little more egg and vanilla extract. The end result are dense and moist mini-brownies with the rich, complementary flavors of rye and dark chocolate.
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