Let’s Talk about Bread Baby

Ingredients in bread dough

1. Water

2. Yeast

3. Sugar 

4. Salt

5. Oil

6. Butter

7. Egg

8. White flour

9. Wheat flour

10. Cornmeal

All of these breads don’t take all of these ingredients at once, but these are the building blocks to make a great tasting bread. I love different types of breads myself and I’m always in the kitchen trying to come up with different ways of making bread. I don’t go by anyone else’s recipes or things of that nature. I try and do create my own recipes for breads and anything else that I want to create.

Types of different breads

1. Sourdough

2. Plain white bread

3. Wheat bread

4. French bread

5. Italian bread

6. Potato bread

7. Cinnamon swirl bread

8. Brioche

9. Baguettes

10. Rye bread

11. Pumpernickel bread

12. Cornbread

13. Naan

14. Ciabatta bread

15. And god so many more

Now I'm just gonna touch on a few of these breads that we all are familiar with. 

Ciabatta bread: Ciabatta (which translates to slipper!) is an Italian bread made with wheat flour, salt, yeast, and water. Though it's texture and crust vary slightly throughout Italy, the essential ingredients remain the same. Ciabatta is best for sandwiches and paninis, naturally.

Brioche: Brioche is a French bread made with eggs and butter. It's super light, with a tight crumb and subtle sweetness. It has a completely soft crust that gets its golden hue from an egg wash applied just before baking.

Sourdough is a yeasted bread made from a starter — a fermented mixture of flour and water that makes many batches of bread. In fact, it can be kept for months, all you have to do is keep feeding it. The resulting loaf has a substantial crust with a soft, chewy center and large air bubbles.

White bread: as we all know, this is the bread that we buy at the store that we make most of our sandwiches with. It is made with bread flour, yeast, water, sugar and salt. Now some nutritionists and doctors say that eating too much white bread is bad for you. Now I'm no doctor, so I don't know.

So now I hope you have a basic understanding of breads and their ingredients. On our recipe page, there is a recipe for Banana Nut Bread that you may want to check out. It’s in our Breakfast Recipe section of our website.