13 Easy Homemade Bread Recipes – Never Buy Bread Again
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I’ve rounded up some of my favorite homemade bread recipes to help you bake a great bread for any meal.
Ditch all the nasty ingredients in store breads, save yourself some money and enjoy some really good bread!
The first section has a number of yeast bread recipes using wheat flour. The second section has bread recipes for special diets, including gluten free breads.
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Homemade Yeast Bread Recipes
Note: I use SAF-INSTANT yeast, which does not require proofing (activating the yeast in warm liquid). You can substitute bread machine yeast or active dry yeast.
To substitute active dry yeast:
Dissolve active in warm liquid before adding the rest of the ingredients, and use a little extra active dry yeast. For more on yeast substitutions, visit Yeast FAQ at The Fresh Loaf.
Use bread flour or hard wheat flour for yeast breads, unless otherwise indicated.
Our Favorite Bread Recipe – This easy homemade bread has eggs and butter for extra richness. It’s a great recipe for sandwich bread, dinner rolls or buns for burgers, brats or sloppy joes.
Easy Sourdough Bread – This simple sourdough recipe uses only four ingredients – sourdough starter, flour, water and salt. The post also includes how to create a sourdough starter.
Potato Bread using Leftover Mashed Potatoes – Give leftover mashed potatoes a second life with this light and tender sandwich bread.
If you don’t have leftover potatoes, simply cook and mash a potato or two, as needed.
Crusty French Bread – This crusty French Bread recipe is great with soups and stews, as loaves, twists or bread bowls. It’s best enjoyed fresh to preserve the crackly crust, but makes an excellent French toast if there are any leftovers.
Cheese Soup in Bread Bowls – Now we don’t have to wait for the fair or a restaurant visit to enjoy the crispy crust of a bread bowl filled with piping hot soup. It’s warm and filling – plus, it’s budget friendly.
Duncan’s Meat in a Loaf – This is one of my youngest’s favorites, bread and meat all in one. Makes a great hot sandwich option for feeding a crowd.
Betty’s Buttermilk Rye Bread This easy rye bread recipe makes a delicious loaf of bread with a tender crumb. The flavor is mild – great for sandwiches, toast, or butter and jam.
Challah Bread from Lady Lee’s Homestead. Challah is the traditional Jewish Sabbath bread, rich with eggs and oil, and a bit sweet. While commonly served as an oblong braided loaf, on Rosh Hashanah, round challah is served to symbolize eternal life.
Whole Wheat Bread – Sprouted or Soaked – If you have trouble digesting wheat, you make want to try soaking or sprouting.
Still not getting the results you’d like with homemade bread?
Check out the post, “Troubleshooting Tips to Help You Bake the Perfect Loaf of Bread“.
Gluten Free Bread Recipes
Brazilian Cheese Bread – Makes a great gluten free hamburger or sandwich bun
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Starlene from GAPS Diet Journey has a new e-book with coconut flour sandwich bread called “Beyond Grain and Dairy“.
The book contains 113 recipes that are gluten and dairy free. This recipe is also featured in her e-book, “Baking with Coconut Flour“. “Baking with Coconut Flour” includes recipes – PLUS – a step by step formula to convert standard recipes to coconut flour recipes.
I hope these beautiful breads will encourage you to do more bread baking at home. Don’t forget to Pin this post for later and share it. 🙂
If you need even more recipes, check out the Recipes page, which lists all the recipes on the website.
Originally published in 2013, last updated in 2020.
Thank you for consolidating all these recipes. I have made 2 out of 13…working on the rest!
I really love your blog. I learn so much and I am greatful. This bread post is awesome. Thank you very much. I am just starting to bake breads and this helps so much.
Thank you for your kind words, Tara. I was thinking about doing a post specifically devoted to bread baking tips. Would that be helpful to you?
Thanks for all the delicious sounding bread recipes. I’ve started baking my own bread again and will certainly give these a try. I do read your blog for all the useful tips and recipes. I recently started a homesteading blog at
southernurbanhomesteader.wordpress.com
and really hope that you will give it a view and perhaps comment or follow it.
Thank you,
Brenda at Southern Urban Homesteader
Great recipes Laurie! I, too, bake my own bread and have been doing so for two years now. Nothing smells better than fresh baked bread in the house. I’ve made basic white and wheat bread, buckwheat bread, Irish Soda Bread and my favorite dutch oven bread that you don’t have to knead; just mix up, cover with plastic wrap and let rise overnight and the next morning flour your board, roll the dough from the bowl onto the board, shape and set inside the hot dutch oven and bake with lid on for 20 min. and then take lid off and bake for another 10 minutes. Great bread and so easy!
I haven’t tried any of the no-knead recipes yet, but I have other friends who swear by them, too.
I would also like healthy recipes to make my own flatbread, Pita, Pizza crust, Flour tortilla, and Ciabotta (misspelled, but I hope you know which I am speaking of) any other new bread available
Thank you for the bread recipes. Do you freeze your bread. I would like to start making bread but I don’t have time to make bread every day.
Yes, I regularly freeze bread, because I don’t have time to bake every day, either. Most of the time I just pop a cooled loaf in a gallon ziplock bag, squeeze the air out and pop it in the freezer. Never put them in the freezer warm. You’ll get condensation when you thaw and soggy bread.
Thank you so much for all these bread recipes. My family really enjoys fresh bread and I use my Kitchen Aid mixer as I have hand issues. They are going to love these. I am 67 yrs old and would love to try so many of your ideas but my health prevents this. I do what I can. Thanks again for these and all your ideas. Sincerely, Linda Mattei
Even if you can only do a little, you are far ahead of those who do nothing. It all adds up.
I have recently started making my own bread with organic flour. I love the result!
I just took today’s batch out of the oven, and it smells so good! Baking helps keep the house mice and cozy on cold and wet days like today, too.
I make a lot of bread. I also make my own bagels. About the bread, if you like wheat bread make it yourself. The flavor is so different and so much better than the wheat bread sold in grocery stores.
Absolutely! The boys don’t like to eat bread away from home because it tastes so different.
Superb site
The sandwich beard is linking to a sloppy joe recipe for me. the rest look great though!
I use the same recipe for making buns for sloppy joes and making sandwich bread. Just form it into loaves, let rise and bake for around 25-30 minutes. I have no sandwich beards available at this time.
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I updated the post to make the bread directions a little clearer. Next time I bake I should get some new photos and give the bread its own post.
I wish these were like in pdf form so when we are off grid and off internet we could still have them handy.
There’s a PrintFriendly button at the bottom left of each post, or you could cut and paste them into a word processing program.
Wow a great link! Thanks! I need to make bread for the week because I forgot to buy some from Whole Foods. Cheaper to make anyway!
Thanks for the plethora of bread recipes! I’ve been wanting to try some new ones, and it’s so kind of you to post these all in one place!
Nothing beats homemade bread. 🙂
where are the 13 bread recipes? When i click on the picture it just opens another picture?
Just click on the name of the bread right below each photo.
You really missed one .. Mesquite Bread. Mesquite flour has the unique quality of having no gluten, and being naturally sweet and the sweet being a sweet that diabetics can have. The flour is actually made from the pods as the seeds are inedible. The flour is similar to graham in texture and smell and taste. The pods can also make a naturally sweet lemonade by steeping them in hot water. While the flour has no gluten it won’t rise but by mixing it with half white flour or whole wheat you can get a half raised product. Naturally the Indians ate a bread similar to pita in nature. It has a wonderful taste and recipes can be found on line. http://www.desertusa.com/lil/mesquite.html I believe it also has links to purchasing mesquite flour.
I’ve heard of it, but it’s not a product I can easily get around here so I haven’t baked with it yet. Thanks for sharing your experience.
Awesome.
Can I use a bread machine? I have arthritis in my fingers.
Yes, I mix most of these via machine, and then just shape and bake in the oven. If one of the recipes matches the capacity of your machine, you should be able to finish the whole thing in the machine.
Do you have any suggestions on how to make these Yeast FREE? Thanks!
Cindy, I do have several quick bread recipes (those leavened with baking soda and/or baking powder instead of yeast) on the recipes page – see Quick Breads.
Do u have a plain oatmeal bread without any other ingredients?
Do you mean oatmeal or oat flour? I don’t currently have either, but I can watch for such a thing.