Recipes

1504 records with their sources, across 11 categories.

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A small stack of thin Moroccan baghrir pancakes with their honeycomb holes visible beside butter and honey.

Baghrir

Moroccan semolina pancakes made from a thin yeast batter, rested until foamy and cooked on one side until the surface sets with a honeycomb of holes. This source-specific batch makes sixteen 5-inch pancakes.

Morocco
· Grains and starches
A pan of golden, raisin-studded hot cross buns with white icing crosses, beside one opened bun showing its soft crumb.

Hot cross buns

These spiced fruit buns use yeast and baking powder in a soft wheat dough, then receive an icing cross after baking.

United States · Modern method
· Grains and starches
A small stack of plain round crumpets with porous tops and golden griddled sides.

Crumpets: King Arthur version

A yeasted milk-and-water batter cooked in greased rings, then turned to finish. This modern formula also includes baking powder.

Britain · Modern method
· Grains and starches
Finished Cretan barley-wheat paximadi rusks, twice-baked and served plain on a plate.

Paximadi kritiko (Cretan barley-wheat rusk)

Elena Paravantes gives a modern 50/50 whole-grain barley and wheat rusk recipe, shaped as one scored loaf, baked, separated into slices and dried in a low oven. The second rise has no stated duration.

Crete, Greece · Modern method
· Grains and starches
A golden raisin paska loaf in a paper mould, sliced to show its soft crumb.

Classic Ukrainian yeast paska

This Ukrainian Easter paska uses an enriched yeast dough with milk, eggs, butter, raisins and citrus zest. A sponge and two further rises precede baking in paper or parchment-lined moulds.

Ukraine · Modern method
· Grains and starches
Illustrative pale, gently aerated pâte fermentée dough in a glass bowl

Pâte fermentée

Pâte fermentée is a bread preferment made from salted, yeasted dough set aside to ferment and mixed into a later batch, carrying developed dough and fermentation products with it.

France · Modern method
· Grains and starches
Anpan, soft golden wheat buns filled with sweet red-bean paste and topped with black sesame, one cut to show the filling.

Anpan

Anpan is a soft wheat bun filled with sweet red-bean paste and finished with egg wash and black sesame. This dough rises with commercial instant yeast.

Japan · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
A clear jar of date fruit yeast water with bubbles, its lid set aside; a bread-leavening intermediate.

Fruit yeast water

Fruit yeast water is a spontaneously fermented liquid made by soaking fruit in water, with or without sugar, to grow yeast for starting bread dough or a separate flour starter.

Japan · Modern method
· Grains and starches