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Our Best Bread Recipes

Whether you’re looking for an easy banana bread recipe or a baking project, our best bread recipes have you covered.

Linda Xiao for The New York Times. Food stylist: Maggie Ruggiero. Prop stylist: Heather Greene.

Recipes

Skillet Cornbread
Lisa Donovan, Pableaux Johnson
192 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
192
40 minutes
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Easy
Crusty Dinner Rolls
Eric Kim, Chip Smith
55 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
55
About 6 hours
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Brioche
Lisa Donovan
104 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
104
14½ hours
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Easy Banana Bread
Lidey Heuck
1417 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
1,417
1 hour 25 minutes
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No-Knead Bread
Mark Bittman, Jim Lahey
21461 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
21,461
1 hour 30 minutes, plus about 20 hours' resting time
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Flour Tortillas With Honey and Butter
Lisa Donovan
105 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
105
1 hour
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Banana Bread
Julia Moskin, Allrecipes.com
11654 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
11,654
1 hour 15 minutes
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Quick and Easy Yeast Rolls
Yossy Arefi
146 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
146
About 2 hours 40 minutes
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Salted Butterflake Rolls
Sohla El-Waylly
127 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
127
7 hours 40 minutes
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Apple Bread
Yossy Arefi
326 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
326
About 1 ½ hours, plus cooling
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Easy
Updated No-Knead Bread
J. Kenji López-Alt
2529 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
2,529
1 hour, plus 14 to 20 hours’ resting
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Meera Sodha’s Naan
Sam Sifton, Meera Sodha
2815 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
2,815
90 minutes
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Garlic Bread
Ali Slagle
4085 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
4,085
30 minutes
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Crumpets
Lidey Heuck
282 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
282
About 1½ hours
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Maple Milk Bread
Eric Kim
1235 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,235
1 hour 5 minutes, plus rising
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Milk Bread Pull-Apart Rolls
Naz Deravian
272 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
272
About 3 hours 10 minutes, plus 1¼ hours’ cooling
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Bao Buns
Vivian Chan-Tam
123 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
123
2 hours 25 minutes
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Low-Knead Sandwich Bread
J. Kenji López-Alt
280 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
280
4 hours, plus 13 hours’ to 3 days’ resting
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Pumpkin Bread
Samantha Seneviratne
3554 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
3,554
1½ hours
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My Favorite Challah
Joan Nathan
4864 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
4,864
1 hour plus 2½ hours' rising
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Croissants
Claire Saffitz
2880 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
2,880
24 hours, largely unattended
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Classic Zucchini Bread
Alison Roman
3150 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
3,150
1 hour 15 minutes
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Excellent White Bread
Melissa Clark
2899 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
2,899
4 hours 15 minutes
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Agege Bread
Yewande Komolafe
248 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
248
1½ hours, plus rising and cooling
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Simple Crusty Bread
Nick Fox, Jeff Hertzberg, Zoë François
8214 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
8,214
About 45 minutes plus about 3 hours' resting and rising
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Anadama Bread
Melissa Clark
290 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
290
2 hours
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Everything Parker House Rolls
Erin Jeanne McDowell
762 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
762
40 minutes, plus 2½ hours’ rising
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Traditional Irish Soda Bread
Melissa Clark, Darina Allen
2878 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
2,878
About 1 hour
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No-Knead Dinner Rolls
Erin Jeanne McDowell
1748 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
1,748
45 minutes, plus rising
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Japanese Milk Bread
Julia Moskin
2499 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
2,499
1½ hours, plus about 3 hours’ rising and cooling
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Tartine’s Country Bread
The New York Times, Chad Robertson
2043 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
2,043
2 weeks (or 2 days with active starter)
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Cinnamon Raisin Swirl Bread
Melissa Clark
613 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
613
4 hours 15 minutes
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New York Deli-Style Rye Bread
Julia Moskin, Stanley Ginsberg
424 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
424
About 4 hours 30 minutes
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Classic Brioche
Alison Roman
657 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
657
1 hour, plus a day's rising
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Homemade Pita Bread
David Tanis
4683 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
4,683
About 2 hours
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Cheddar Beer Bread Rolls
Erin Jeanne McDowell
2401 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
2,401
25 minutes, plus rising
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Sourdough No-Knead Bread
Sam Sifton, Jim Lahey
2661 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
2,661
12 to 24 hours
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Irish Brown Soda Bread
David Tanis, Rachel Allen
669 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
669
About 1 hour
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Barmbrack (Irish Sweet Bread)
David Tanis, Rachel Allen
173 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
173
2 hours
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Pain au Chocolat
Claire Saffitz
309 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
309
About 4 hours, largely unattended
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Maple White Bread
Florence Fabricant
237 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
237
3 hours
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Blue Cheese Swirl Bread
Erin Jeanne McDowell
443 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
443
1 hour, plus 1¾ hours' rising
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Beer Bread
Florence Fabricant
1768 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
1,768
40 minutes
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Easy
Cheesy Garlic-Potato Monkey Bread
Erin Jeanne McDowell
333 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
333
Time: 2½ hours, plus overnight rising
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Speedy No-Knead Bread
Mark Bittman, Jim Lahey
2850 ratings with an average rating of 5 out of 5 stars
2,850
45 minutes, plus 4½ hours' rising
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Chocolate-Cherry Sourdough Bread
Tejal Rao, Francisco Migoya, Nathan Myhrvold
500 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
500
1 hour 30 minutes, plus about 20 hours' rising
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Sourdough Rye
Mark Bittman
160 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
160
5 hours, plus 5 days' storing
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Country Bread With Apples
Martha Rose Shulman
147 ratings with an average rating of 4 out of 5 stars
147
40 minutes baking, plus 16½ hours for fermentation
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