Over 45 Bread Recipes from 2017

I have here for you over 45 bread recipes from 2017.

Usually, at the beginning of each New Year, I'll post my top ten favorite bread recipes for the year. This year, I decided to assemble all of my bakes for the year in a single post, kind of like a virtual bread cookbook. I hope you like it!

This post includes all of the bread recipes I posted in 2017, minus one. Minus one? When I assembled the first list, I counted 47 recipes, but after dividing the recipes into categories, and tossing the original list, I ended up with 46 (poor orphan bread recipe from 2017, whoever you are)!

If you've been following this site for a while, you know how much I love baking bread. It is amazing to me how four simple ingredients, flour, yeast, water, and salt, can result in so many beautiful and varied loaves.

I just read an article declaring that in 2017, bread stopped being a bad word. This declaration makes it official. My favorite quote: "It's a momentous time for bread in America!" Bread is cool again! In the age when a bag of potato chips is often marked as "gluten free," this is pretty significant.

Observations after reading the article: First, I'm really excited to learn that Tartine is actually coming to Los Angeles. Second: I'm pretty much a pioneer of the "bread crawl," in that I used a trip to Portland, Oregon a few years ago to visit every single one of Ken Forkish's restaurants. I'm not a stalker! I was on a "bread crawl!"

Also notable: Nathan Myhrvold (a Microsoft tech guru) and Francisco Migoya (a chef) published the five-volume compendium, Modernist Bread. Price tag: $523.35, and people are buying it and giving it 5 star reviews. Bread. Is. Back.

Here are my breads from 2017, divided into six categories:

Crusty and Lean Breads

1. Sourdough Barley Bread with Figs and Pecans
2. Walnut Levain Bread
3. Auvergne Crown (pictured above)
4. Tartine Basic Country Bread
5. Sourdough Pain de Campagne with Toasted Pumpkin, Sunflower, and Flax Seeds
6. Italian Style Durum Wheat Bread
7. Sour Cherry, Peanut, and Barley Sourdough Bread 
8. Ten Grain No Knead Bread
9. Four Hour French Country Bread
10.  Fig and Walnut Bread
11. Swiss Rye Ring 

Rolls and Buns

1. Petit Pains
2. Chewy Italian Dinner Rolls
3. Kaak (Beirut Street Bread) 
4. Shubbak el-Habayek (pictured above)
5. Bastounakia with Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme
6. Whole Wheat Santa Lucia Buns
7. No Knead English Muffins
8. Kaiser Rolls
9. Pumpkin Cornmeal and Rye Pull-Apart Rolls
10. Sfoof 

Enriched, Sandwich, and Sweet Breads

1. Cinnamon Raisin Struan Bread
2. Whole Wheat Quinoa Bread
3.  Rum Raisin Bread
4. Scali Bread (pictured above)
5. Velvety Bean Bread with Chives
6. Cottage Cheese, Dill, and Caramelized Shallot Bread
7. Oat and Potato Bread
8. Fouace Nantaise
9. Pull-apart Dill Bread
10. Liège-style Waffles 

Flat Bread and Crackers

1. Aish Baladi
2. Jachnun
3. Rosemary Parmesan Crackers
4. Spinach and Olive Focaccia (pictured above)
5. Chinese Scallion Pancakes
6. Homemade Rye Crisp Crackers

Pizza

1. Six Onion Pizza
2. Broccoli Pizza with Provolone, Mozzarella, and Pecorino Romano (pictured above)
3. Pizza alla Siciliana 
4. No Knead Deep Dish Pizza
5. Potato and Leek Pizza
6. Sourdough Pizza Crust

Stuffed Breads

1. Pork and Chinese Chive Steamed Buns
2. Tutmanik
3. Kare Pan (pictured above)

Thank you to Sarah of Fantastical Sharing of Recipes for putting together this Countdown to 2018. Be sure to check out the rest of the Wild Card posts.

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