Personal picks

Favorite recipes

The loaves I come back to most often. Below: what they have in common, and three recipes for the next bake picked by the same traits.

All recipes

5 recipes

What they share

Counted straight from the cards in the list: form, grain, dough character, and technique. Nothing is set by hand — add a loaf and the summary recounts itself.

Part of the list is published in Russian only — the translated recipes are shown here.

The list

Whole-grain rye · pan loaf · sourdough baked

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)
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Rye · pan · scalded baked

Borodinsky Sourdough Bread

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

Until bake ends
51 h 5 min
Until bake starts
49 h 40 min
Yield
1 pan loaf (~1 kg)
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Rye-wheat · pan · scalded 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)
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Rye-wheat · pan · lean 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)
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Wheat · hearth · lean 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)
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What to bake next

Three recommendations drawn from the list above: one takes the newest cards, one is the closest match by traits, one is the opposite of the usual. Only lessons that have never been baked are eligible.

New

Newest card in the library

Soft pan loaf with boiling-water flour scald (yudane)

Soft pan loaf with a boiling-water flour scald (yudane): scalding 20% of the flour binds extra water for a moist, tender crumb that stays fresh longer.

Shared with the list
pan loaf · scald · wheat · enriched
Not in the list
dairy
Until bake ends
5 h
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Similar

Closest match to the list

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.

Shared with the list
pan loaf · sourdough · wheat · enriched
Not in the list
dairy
Until bake ends
18 h
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Unusual

Furthest from the usual

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.

Shared with the list
pan loaf · wheat · enriched
Not in the list
dairy
Until bake ends
4 h 30 min
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