Public library

Recipes

Finished home bread formulas: ingredients, steps, versions, and conclusions after baking.

S1: lean wheat track

The learning sequence from a white control loaf to sourdough, whole grain, and wheat-rye hearth bread.

Top

v1.16 · baked

Lean wheat baseline (direct dough)

Lean wheat bread made from flour, water, salt, and fresh yeast — a clean baseline loaf without tangzhong, milk, butter, sugar, or sourdough.

Until bake ends
7 h 35 min
Until bake starts
7 h 10 min
Yield
1 hearth loaf (~580–620 g)
Open recipe

v1.8 · baked

One home-scale baguette on poolish

One large baguette-style loaf in a home oven — preshape, shaping, scoring, steam, and a thin crackly crust.

Until bake ends
16 h 35 min
Until bake starts
16 h
Yield
1 large home baguette-batard (~620–650 g after baking)
Open recipe

v1.0 · theory

Batard on old dough

A lean artisan wheat batard built on salted old dough (pate fermentee): overall baker's percentages, batard shaping, scoring, steam, and a deeper flavor without new flour.

Until bake ends
16 h 35 min
Until bake starts
16 h 5 min
Yield
1 hearth batard (~600–630 g after baking)
Open recipe

S2: soft pan wheat bread

A track for softness in a pan: scalded flour, milk ingredients, enrichment, and freshness of pan-baked bread.

Top

v3.5 · baked

Tangzhong white bread

White bread with tangzhong, milk, sugar, butter, cold fermentation, and freshness control.

Until bake ends
23 h 32 min
Until bake starts
22 h 45 min
Yield
1 loaf (~700 g)
Open recipe

v1.1 · theory

Soft pan loaf on sourdough opara

Pan loaf on a sourdough opara, where the goal is softness and flavor without sharp acidity.

Until bake ends
18 h
Until bake starts
17 h 20 min
Yield
1 pan loaf
Open recipe

v1.1 · theory

Potato soft pan loaf

Potato mash as a source of softness, moisture, and clean slicing: starch from boiled potato holds water in a soft, fine-crumbed pan loaf.

Until bake ends
4 h 30 min
Until bake starts
3 h 50 min
Yield
1 pan loaf
Open recipe

v1.0 · theory

Cultured-milk soft pan loaf

Cultured-milk soft pan loaf made with kefir in place of part of the water: a soft, tender crumb with a light lactic tang and a deeper crust color.

Until bake ends
4 h 30 min
Until bake starts
3 h 50 min
Yield
1 pan loaf
Open recipe

v1.0 · theory

Soft pan loaf on old dough

A soft sandwich pan loaf built on pâte fermentée (old dough): a fermented preferment that adds wheat depth and structure without sourdough acidity.

Until bake ends
18 h
Until bake starts
17 h 20 min
Yield
1 pan loaf
Open recipe

v1.0 · theory

Comparative softness and freshness control

A single neutral control pan loaf that sets the baseline on one softness-and-freshness scale, so every soft-wheat variation can be compared fairly.

Until bake ends
4 h 30 min
Until bake starts
3 h 50 min
Yield
1 pan loaf
Open recipe

S2 Advanced: softness and freshness lab

Advanced protocols for softness, storage, pan scaling, slice purpose, whole grain, and final tasting.

Top

v1.0 · theory

Softness baseline

A baseline soft white pan loaf with 5% sugar and 5% oil: a control bake that gives a scale for comparing tangzhong, potato, soaker, and yudane.

Until bake ends
4 h 30 min
Until bake starts
3 h 50 min
Yield
1 pan loaf
Open recipe

R1: rye course

Learning sequence from a rye-wheat control through high rye flour, scalds, and sourdough.

Top

v1.17 · baked

Rye-wheat bread 60/40

The first rye-track lesson: a simple 60/40 rye-wheat control loaf on one rye starter, without malt, spices, or scald.

Until bake ends
37 h 40 min
Until bake starts
36 h 35 min
Yield
1 pan loaf (~800–850 g)
Open recipe

v3.9 · baked

Dark bread with 80% rye flour

High-rye bread: dark bread with 80% rye flour, a scald, Brotgewürz, and three-stage rye sourdough refreshment.

Until bake ends
46 h 55 min
Until bake starts
45 h 30 min
Yield
1 pan loaf (~900 g)
Open recipe

v1.1 · theory

100% rye-flour pan loaf (Vollkornbrot)

100% rye-flour pan loaf Vollkornbrot-style on sourdough opara, without wheat flour, scald, or malt.

Until bake ends
49 h 55 min
Until bake starts
48 h 40 min
Yield
1 pan loaf (~880–920 g)
Open recipe

v1.0 · theory

Rye with scald and red malt

A rye-wheat 80/20 bread with a scald and red fermented malt on a sourdough opara, no spices apart from optional coriander.

Until bake ends
49 h 25 min
Until bake starts
48 h 10 min
Yield
1 pan loaf (~850–900 g)
Open recipe

R2: regional and scalded rye breads

Breads where rye acidity, scalds, malt, spices, and rest form a recognizable style.

Top

v3.8 · baked

Borodinsky Sourdough Bread

Borodinsky scalded rye on rye sourdough, red malt, coriander, caraway, and mandatory crumb maturation.

Until bake ends
64 h 35 min
Until bake starts
63 h 10 min
Yield
1 pan loaf (~1 kg)
Open recipe