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Photograph of Sourdough panettone, home batch.

Sourdough panettone, home batch

A tall Lombard Christmas bread enriched with butter, yolks and candied citrus, raised first with refreshed sourdough and then proofed in a paper mould.

Lombardy
Grains and starches
Photograph of Sangak (sourdough baking-sheet adaptation).

Sangak (sourdough baking-sheet adaptation)

An Iranian whole-wheat sourdough flatbread adapted for a home oven and ordinary baking sheet. This method keeps the broad, dimpled hand-stretched shape but omits the traditional hot-pebble hearth and its imprint.

Iran · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
A dense whole-rye Vollkornbrot pan loaf, cut to show its tight seeded crumb, with rye chops nearby.

Vollkornbrot (whole-rye loaf)

A dense whole-rye loaf with a sourdough preferment, soaked rye chops and sunflower seeds. It bakes in a long loaf pan and rests for 24–48 hours before slicing.

Germany
· Grains and starches
A scored Vermont-style sourdough boule and cut half showing its pale wheat-forward crumb, with a little rye flour nearby.

Vermont-style rye levain bread

Jeffrey Hamelman's Vermont sourdough builds a liquid wheat levain before adding a modest measure of rye flour blend. The dough is folded, shaped and baked as two crusty loaves with a tender, open crumb.

Vermont
· Grains and starches
Illustrative Salinātā rudzu rupjmaize: a long dark Latvian rye loaf with rounded ends, glossy crust, sparse caraway seeds and a dark, lightly porous crumb.

Salinātā rudzu rupjmaize

Latvian naturally leavened rye bread made with a hot-water scald of part of the flour, unfermented rye malt and caraway; shaped as long loaves and hearth-baked.

Latvia · Traditional method
· Grains and starches
A dark, flour-dusted Finnish rye ring loaf with fork-pricked marks on a pale board.

Ruisleipä (Finnish sourdough rye bread)

A Finnish rye sourdough shaped here as two flat ring loaves, made from rye flour, water, salt and an established rye leaven.

Finland · Traditional method
· Grains and starches
Illustrative dense Danish sourdough rye-and-wheat loaf with a cut slice showing whole and chopped grain.

Rugbrød

This Danish sourdough loaf combines wheat flour and kernels with rye flour and cracked rye, then rises in three tins before a long, low finishing bake.

Denmark
· Grains and starches
A floury oval loaf of Tuscan saltless bread with diagonal slashes, and three slices showing an open ivory crumb, on a wooden board.

Pane toscano

Tuscany's saltless wheat bread, leavened with a sourdough biga: a mild loaf with a crisp dark crust that was made to sit beside salty meats, cheeses and stews.

Tuscany
· Grains and starches
A finished high Pane di Altamura-style durum loaf with a raised crossed crown and pale yellow crumb.

Pane di Altamura DOP: registered production method

A protected durum-wheat sourdough bread documented by a commercial production specification. The official 100 kg batch and oven process are recorded without inventing a household scale.

Alta Murgia, Puglia
· Grains and starches
A home-adapted Pan de Cea style sourdough loaf with a transverse fenda, shown on a board; not a certified PGI product.

Pan de Cea (home adaptation)

This home sourdough adaptation borrows Pan de Cea’s wheat-forward loaf and central fenda while using a domestic oven and a separately documented modern formula.

San Cristovo de Cea · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Round pain de campagne with a deep golden-brown, flour-dusted crust and open crumb; illustrative of the linked King Arthur recipe.

Pain de campagne with discard starter

Two large French-style wheat loaves use unfed sourdough starter, whole-wheat flour, long room-temperature fermentation and a covered-pot bake.

France
· Grains and starches
A sliced dark Lithuanian rye loaf with a dense brown crumb.

Juoda ruginė duona (Lithuanian black rye bread)

A Lithuanian dark rye loaf made with an overnight rye preferment, caraway, honey and sugar, then proofed in a loaf pan and baked in two stages.

Lithuania · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
A rustic round buckwheat sourdough loaf with a cut slice showing its compact crumb and visible groats, oats and pistachio pieces; buckwheat and millet grains sit in small bowls beside it.

Gluten-free sourdough loaf with whole buckwheat groats

A gluten-free sourdough loaf of about 1 kg. A buckwheat and quinoa starter leavens a dough with cooked whole buckwheat groats, millet and a dark gluten-free bread mix, baked in a lidded pot.

Austria
· Grains and starches
A dark rectangular Borodinsk-ish rye loaf with coriander seeds on top and a slice showing its close brown crumb.

Borodinsky bread (Lily McCann's home method)

A dark rye sourdough with coriander and roasted barley-malt scald, based on Lily McCann's measured Borodinsk-ish home formula.

Russia · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Two golden soft sourdough pretzels with coarse salt on an ivory platter.

Sourdough discard pretzels

Unfed sourdough starter flavours a soft pretzel dough raised with instant yeast. After a short rest, the dough is shaped, brushed with a sweet wash, salted and baked without a final proof.

United States · Modern method
· Grains and starches
A finished round no-knead sourdough boule with a cross-scored crust and a slice showing the open crumb.

No-knead sourdough loaf

A ripe sourdough starter leavens this modern low-handling loaf. Three hourly folds organize the sticky dough before a long refrigerator rest, final proof and covered bake.

United States · Modern method
· Grains and starches
A round Pan de Cruz-style household loaf with cross scoring and a compact pale crumb.

Pan de Cruz de Ciudad Real (home adaptation)

This household Pan de Cruz adaptation uses sourdough and a folded, tight-crumb wheat dough, marked with a cross and baked in a home oven.

Campo de Calatrava · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Original editorial photograph of a cut Roggenmischbrot 70/30 loaf, showing a crackled, flour-dusted crust and moist light-brown crumb. Illustrative; not a photograph of the Plötzblog baker's batch.

Roggenmischbrot 70/30

A rye-rich sourdough loaf with wheat flour, a dried-bread soaker and a small addition of baker’s yeast.


· Grains and starches
A dark Estonian rye sourdough loaf with sunflower, pumpkin and caraway seeds, sliced on a wooden board.

Must leib (Estonian black rye bread)

This Estonian rye loaf uses a sourdough preferment, a rye scald and soaked seeds, with a small amount of baker’s yeast. Two tins bake through a staged hot-to-moderate oven schedule.

Estonia · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Illustrative sourdough English muffins: griddle-browned rounds with one split to show an irregular airy crumb.

Sourdough English muffins

A soft English muffin dough combines sourdough starter with baker’s yeast, then rises, is cut into rounds and cooks on a griddle. The starter adds tang; the added yeast helps it rise.

United States · Modern method
· Grains and starches