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A tall domed golden-brown overnight panettone in a plain paper mold, with a slice showing airy crumb and raisins, apricots, cranberries and dried pineapple.

Overnight panettone: King Arthur version

A modern instant-yeast panettone with an overnight flour-and-water preferment and mixed dried fruit. It is separate from specialist sourdough panettone methods.

Lombardy · Modern method
· Grains and starches
Golden sesame shaobing with a visible spiral of sesame paste in its layered interior.

Beijing Sesame-Paste Shaobing

A Beijing-style yeast dough is layered with seasoned sesame paste, sealed into small buns, briefly pan-fried, seeded, and baked.

China · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Round Japanese melon-pan buns with a lightly golden, crosshatched biscuit shell; one is cut to show its soft bread crumb.

Melon pan

Melon pan pairs a soft Japanese yeast bun with a crisp, crosshatched cookie shell. In this ten-bun version, the bread dough is wrapped in a separate biscuit layer and baked until lightly golden.

Japan · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Illustrative South African roosterkoek: small golden, hand-shaped braai breads with irregular grid browning and a soft, cooked crumb.

Roosterkoek (South African braai bread)

Roosterkoek is a small yeast-raised South African bread cooked over gentle braai coals. This enriched dough rises twice and is turned on the grid until browned and cooked through.

South Africa · Traditional method
· Grains and starches
Illustrative Javanese-style martabak telor parcel, pan-fried golden with a visible beef, egg and leek filling.

Murtabak

A Javanese-style Indonesian savoury parcel of thin rested wheat dough folded around curry-seasoned beef and egg, then cooked in an oiled skillet.

Java · 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
Golden German-style pretzel knots with coarse salt and a soft crumb.

Brezel

This German-style knot pretzel uses a firm yeast dough, a chilled shape, a one-minute baking-soda bath and a deep bake. The method follows Jeffrey Hamelman's home adaptation for King Arthur Baking.

Germany · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Round Dutch tiger rolls with a golden crackled rice-flour crust and soft crumb.

Tiger rolls (rice-paste crust)

These Dutch-associated wheat rolls carry a yeast-raised rice-flour paste that dries into a split, crunchy crust.

Netherlands · Modern method
· Grains and starches
Soft golden Korean soboro-ppang buns with rugged peanut streusel caps and a fluffy plain crumb.

Soboro-ppang (Jennifer’s 10-bun recipe)

Ten soft, sweet yeast buns with a crisp, peanut butter streusel topping, shaped by hand and baked until golden.

Korea · Modern method
· Grains and starches
Pan de cristal loaves with a crisp golden crust and large open crumb.

Pan de cristal

A Catalan-associated wheat loaf with a very wet dough, pan de cristal develops an open crumb through repeated folds and careful handling.

Catalonia · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
One plain Burmese nan bya: a thin, softly bubbled wheat flatbread cooked on a pan, with light golden marks and no topping.

Nan bya: Sandi Wai’s Burmese plain naan

Sandi Wai’s eight-piece Burmese plain naan uses yeast and baking powder, rests for 30 minutes and cooks on a hot nonstick pan without oil.

Myanmar · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Two wide, golden Greek Lagana loaves topped with sesame seeds on parchment.

Lagana (Diane Kochilas yeast version)

Diane Kochilas’s yeast-raised Lagana makes two wide, sesame-topped loaves for Clean Monday. Her Athens-neighborhood version is distinct from the unleavened Lagana also described in the recipe’s cultural context.

Greece · Modern method
· Grains and starches
Three golden, puffy Emirati khameer breads with sesame seeds; one torn to show its soft interior.

Khameer

A source-specific Emirati yeast-and-baking-powder bread: soft dough enriched with dry milk is rolled into four rounds and baked briefly in a 550°F oven until it puffs.

United Arab Emirates · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
A glossy golden braided tsoureki loaf topped with almond slivers, on parchment over a wooden table.

Tsoureki (My Greek Dish Easter bread)

Eli K. Giannopoulos’s recipe makes two braided tsourekia with mastic, mahleb and orange, followed by an optional syrup. It is one modern Greek Easter-bread formula, not a universal regional standard.

Greece · Modern method
· Grains and starches
Pale steamed hua juan flower rolls with scallion layers in a bamboo steamer.

Hua juan

Hua juan are layered wheat rolls shaped into knots and steamed. This version folds scallions and five-spice between the dough layers and makes eight savory buns.

China · 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
Original editorial photograph of a rounded-top Japanese shokupan made from three joined dough logs, with one slice showing its soft, fine white crumb.

Shokupan

Shokupan is a soft, mildly sweet Japanese wheat loaf served as toast or in sandwiches. This formula makes a square or rounded one-loaf pan bread with a fine, milky crumb.

Japan · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Empty folded lotus-leaf buns in a bamboo steamer, with one plain bun opened to show its pocket.

Lotus-leaf buns (unfilled folded steamed buns)

These twelve Chinese lotus-leaf buns are folded wheat-dough pockets steamed empty for filling after cooking. The recipe uses yeast, a little baking soda and cornstarch; it does not include the assembled gua bao sandwich or its fillings.

China · Modern method
· Grains and starches
Three soft golden Dampfnudeln cooked in a dark pan with milk and butter, one showing its caramelized underside.

Dampfnudeln

Allgäu Dampfnudeln are enriched wheat buns proofed in a covered casserole and cooked in milk and butter until the liquid nearly cooks away.

Allgäu · Modern method
· Grains and starches
Golden Yemeni bint al-sahn layered bread with black cumin seeds, a modest honey glaze and a cut wedge showing its layers.

Bint al-sahn (Yemeni layered bread with honey)

Bint al-sahn is a Yemeni celebration and home bread built from thin, egg-rich yeast dough layers brushed with ghee or butter. This source-specific version makes one round cake, baked until golden and served warm with honey.

Yemen · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
A stack of thin soft Swedish mjukt tunnbröd with toasted freckles, one folded on a wooden board.

Tunnbröd

Tunnbröd is Sweden’s family of thin, docked flatbreads, baked soft for immediate meals or dried crisp for the pantry. This home recipe follows a northern Swedish soft rye-and-wheat version scented with anise and fennel.

Northern Sweden
· Grains and starches
A round golden potbrood loaf in an open black cast-iron Dutch oven lined with baking parchment.

Potbrood

A modern South African potbrood home method: a yeast dough proofs in a 4 L cast-iron pot and bakes covered, then uncovered, in a domestic oven.

South Africa · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Finished rectangular pain de mie with a flat top and fine, even crumb, shown with one square slice; an illustrative image of the enriched instant-yeast loaf.

Pain de mie

A fine-crumb, enriched wheat loaf baked in a lidded pan for even slices used in sandwiches, toast, French toast and melba toast.

Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Golden Korean hotteok pancakes filled with brown sugar, cinnamon and walnuts, one opened to show the syrup centre.

Hotteok

Maangchi’s eight-piece hotteok wraps a brown-sugar, cinnamon and walnut filling in yeast dough, then fries and presses the parcels in a pan.

South Korea · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Three golden English muffins, one fork-split to show their open crumb.

English muffins: King Arthur yeast-preferment version

King Arthur’s six-piece English muffin batch uses a yeast preferment, two folds and a skillet or electric griddle; it is distinct from the sourdough-and-yeast version already catalogued.

United States · Modern method
· Grains and starches
A stack of soft, turmeric-yellow Trinidad bara breads, thin and gently puffed with light golden frying marks.

Trinidad bara for doubles

Soft Trinidad bara are thin yeast-raised wheat rounds fried briefly, then paired as two breads around channa and condiments to make doubles.

Trinidad and Tobago
· Grains and starches
Soft Iraqi khubz tannour flatbread with toasted blisters on parchment in a home-oven setting

Iraqi khubz tannour (home oven)

A soft, water-only Iraqi wheat flatbread adapted for a domestic oven with parchment and a preheated baking stone or inverted sheet.

Iraq
· Grains and starches
A medium golden braided brioche loaf with one slice revealing its tender yellow crumb, on an ivory platter.

Brioche

An egg-and-butter-rich yeast dough shaped as one round loaf, two loaves or twelve small brioches, with baking paths that vary by shape.

Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Deeply golden, butter-layered jachnun rolls with a cut spiral end, served with grated tomato and schug.

Jachnun (Yemenite Jewish overnight pastry)

Jachnun is a rolled, butter-layered wheat pastry baked covered for hours at very low oven heat and served warm, often with grated tomato and schug.

Yemen · Traditional method
· Grains and starches
Plain Ulster soda farls, four quarter-round soda breads cooked on a griddle with mottled golden-brown faces and a soft pale crumb.

Plain Ulster soda farls

A buttermilk-and-soda wheat dough cut into quarters and cooked on a griddle, following Paula's plain version for Discover Ulster-Scots.

Ulster · Modern method
· Grains and starches
Golden Genovese focaccia in a baking tray, its olive-oil and salt dimples visible beside an airy cut crumb.

Genovese focaccia: Ezio Rocchi's version

Fresh-yeast focaccia with olive oil and brine in its dimples, made in two 30 × 40 cm trays. It is separate from the sourdough focaccia formula.

Liguria · Modern method
· Grains and starches
Two thin, round, lightly toasted Lapin ohrarieska barley flatbreads with fork-pricked surfaces on a wooden board.

Lapland barley rieska

Two barley flatbreads made with cold dough and baked rapidly on a hot sheet, following Timo Lepistö's northern Finnish formula.

Finnish Lapland · Modern method
· Grains and starches
Three small pan-cooked mchadi cornmeal cakes, one broken to show its pale dense crumb

Mchadi: Georgian pan-cooked cornbread

Unleavened cornmeal cakes mixed with cold water and cooked on both sides in a covered-then-uncovered pan. Cheese is served alongside rather than mixed into this dough.

western Georgia · Modern method
· Grains and starches
Three golden Paraguayan chipa rings on an ivory plate, one broken open to show its interior.

Paraguayan chipa: Laylita's version

Cassava-starch cheese rings made with mozzarella, eggs and milk, with optional anise. This modern version uses baking powder and no dough fermentation.

Paraguay · Modern method
· Grains and starches
A round lardy cake with a glossy golden top and a cut wedge showing fruit-studded layers.

Lardy cake

A yeast dough is folded around sweetened lard and dried fruit, then baked in tins until the bottom caramelizes.

Gloucestershire · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Illustrative Orkney barley-or-oat bannocks: two thick, lightly griddled rounds with coarse tan crumb; not a photograph of Anne Johnson's batch.

Orkney barley or oat bannocks

Two round, chemically raised bannocks made with equal weights of white flour and beremeal, barley flour or oat flour, following Anne Johnson's Orkney formula.

Orkney · Modern method
· Grains and starches
Frisian suikerbrood loaf and slices showing a soft cinnamon-sugar swirl and pearl sugar.

Frisian suikerbrood: Toine's version

Yeasted sugar bread with cinnamon, pearl sugar and ginger syrup, shaped into two standard loaves or three paper-pan loaves.

Friesland · Modern method
· Grains and starches
Original editorial reconstruction of a closed, round, golden-browned Imeretian cheese bread cooked in a skillet.

Gunda's pan-fried Imeretian khachapuri

Closed round cheese breads made with sour-cream dough and cooked in a frying pan. This named Gunda version has no added yeast or proofing stage.

Imereti · Modern method
· Grains and starches
Round golden wheat-and-cornmeal mantou steamed in a bamboo basket, one cut open to show its tender crumb.

Cornmeal mantou

A Chinese cornmeal mantou made with wheat flour, cornmeal, water and yeast. The dough rises until doubled, is shaped into ten rounds, proofed briefly and steamed.

China · Modern method
· Grains and starches
Freshly baked pandesal rolls with a light golden crust and fine breadcrumb coating.

Pandesal (Aaron Verzosa's neutral-oil version)

Filipino pandesal made with a neutral-oil wheat dough, folded through a 3½-hour fermentation and coated in breadcrumbs.

Philippines · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Plain round bolo do caco breads with browned pan marks on a wooden board beside a cast-iron pan.

Bolo do caco: pan-and-oven version

Sweet-potato wheat breads with fresh yeast, browned in a pan and finished in the oven. This is the bread component of Teleculinária's scrambled-egg dish.

Madeira · Modern method
· Grains and starches
Five golden Moroccan krachel rolls with sesame seeds on a cream ceramic platter, with anise seeds beside them.

Krachel

Krachel, also called el gors, are Moroccan sweet yeast rolls scented with anise, sesame and orange flower water. This version follows the three-rise method documented by Christine Benlafquih.

Morocco
· Grains and starches
Small golden mofo gasy griddle cakes with a soft pale interior, shown on a plain plate.

Mofo gasy (cream-of-rice batter)

Small, mildly sweet Madagascar-named griddle cakes made from a briefly risen batter of cream of rice, whole-wheat pastry flour, yeast and water.

Madagascar
· Grains and starches
Three Filipino ensaymada buns with coiled golden dough and grated cheese topping.

Filipino ensaymada, butter-sugar-cheese version

Soft Filipino ensaymada coils use enriched yeast dough, then receive butter, sugar and grated cheese. This modern Filipino version differs from Mallorcan ensaïmada and other Philippine regional formulas.

Philippines · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Three light-golden youtiao, paired fried dough sticks, with one broken end showing an airy hollow crumb.

Youtiao

Youtiao are Chinese breakfast crullers made from soft baking-powder dough, chilled overnight, stretched into paired strips and fried until light golden.

China · Modern method
· Grains and starches
Shanghai-style scallion pancakes, one cut to show the flaky layers and scallions inside.

Shanghai Scallion Pancakes (Cong You Bing)

Bill Leung’s Shanghai-style scallion pancakes layer soft wheat dough with scallions and an oil-flour paste, then fry and finish in the oven.

China · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches