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Preferment Recipes

Our Preferment Recipes category offers an amazing journey into superior bread baking. Unlock richer flavors and textures by mastering techniques like building your own How To Make A Sourdough Starter. You can also explore methods such as creating a What Is A Sponge? for incredible results.

  • rubber band marking growth of a sourdough preferment in a jar.
    How To Make A Sourdough Starter
  • baked panettone christmas cake.
    Italian Panettone (Christmas Bread)
  • A jar labeled "Potato" filled with a white liquid sits on a counter next to a box of instant mashed potatoes, a digital kitchen scale, and a pink spoon holding potato flakes for making potato flake sourdough bread starter.
    Instant Potato Flake Sourdough Bread Starter
  • sponge for breadmaking.
    What Is A Sponge?
  • preferment levain in a bowl waiting to be used.
    What Is A Levain?
  • bread made with a biga starter.
    What Is A Biga?
  • Baguette made with a pâte fermentée sliced for eating.
    What Is A Pâte Fermentée?
  • white bread with large bubbly crumb, made with a poolish starter.
    What Is A Poolish?

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Kelly Bloom, recipe creator at I Knead Bread.

I love bread! I started making bread when I was 21 and working at a Jewish bakery. I loved to watch the bakers as they made ginormous batches of bagels, challah, rye bread, and Hamenstachen cookies.

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Popular Recipes

  • A loaf of homemade white sourdough discard sandwich bread with a golden crust sits on a dark cutting board, two thick slices cut and laid in front.
    Sourdough Discard White Sandwich Bread
  • Two freshly baked no knead baguettes with visible olive pieces rest on a wire cooling rack. A sprig of rosemary and a green cloth are placed nearby on a white surface.
    Rosemary Olive No Knead Baguettes
  • A stack of round, flat whole wheat flour tortillas is arranged on a cork mat atop a white cloth. One tortilla is folded, and a stalk of wheat rests on top, emphasizing the connection to wheat flour.
    Homemade Flour Tortillas
  • Two pieces of rustic semolina bread topped with sesame seeds, one whole and one broken open, rest on a blue and white checkered cloth.
    Easy Semolina Bread

Sweet Yeast Bread

  • A circular rosca de reyes, or Wreath of the Kings, is topped with white icing, red cherries, and sliced almonds. It rests on a white background with a hint of a red and white striped cloth visible at the top.
    Rosca de Reyes Wreath Bread
  • A close-up of sliced strawberry focaccia bread drizzled with white icing. The bread is golden brown with visible chunks of strawberries and a moist, crumbly texture. One slice is slightly pulled away from the loaf.
    Strawberry Rhubarb Sweet Focaccia
  • A close-up of a freshly baked round braided brioche boule with a golden-brown crust, placed on a wooden board. A white cloth is partially visible in the background, enhancing the rustic appeal.
    Round Chocolate Brioche
  • icing drizzled over brown butter cinnamon rolls.
    Brown Butter Cinnamon Rolls
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  • A wooden plate holds several square, fluffy bread rolls dusted with flour, arranged on a green and white tiled surface.
    Traditional Irish Blaa Rolls (Waterford Blaa Recipe)
  • A round loaf of golden-brown gluten free Irish soda bread with a crunchy crust is sliced on a wooden cutting board, showing its dense, crumbly interior. A striped cloth is in the background.
    Gluten-Free Irish Soda Bread with Oat Flour
  • A round loaf of Irish wheaten bread, topped with oats, sits on a black cooling rack, with a green cloth and white table surface in the background.
    Irish Wheaten Bread Made With American Flours
  • A loaf of Irish Brown Bread topped with rolled oats sits on a wire cooling rack, with two slices cut and lying next to it. A bread knife is partially visible nearby.
    Irish Brown Bread

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