A Slow Rise: Favorite Recipes from Four Decades of Baking with Heart by Daniel Leader

  • Whole wheat bread (page 47)

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    • Categories: Bread & rolls, savory
    • Ingredients: honey; whole wheat flour; milk powder; instant yeast; sweet potatoes
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  • Hint of wheat and rye bread

    • twoyolks on June 18, 2025

      The whole wheat and rye add some needed flavor to a commercially yeasted bread without overpowering with bitterness.

  • Sourdough baguettes

    • Cotonqueen on December 27, 2024

      One of the more straightforward baguette recipes out there. I use Sunrise heritage Flour and the flavor was exceptional.

  • Lemon shortbread

    • cookingbychapter on March 10, 2026

      Felt like this was just a little bland, but others enjoyed it.

  • Sweet levain brioche dough

    • cookingbychapter on March 02, 2025

      I made the entire recipe for this dough and then made the cinnamon raisin bread with half. It was excellent. I froze the other half and used it a few weeks later. I didn't have high hopes using a frozen brioche dough, but it lead to the best babka I have ever made. Love this recipe.

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  • ISBN 10 0593421582
  • ISBN 13 9780593421581
  • Linked ISBNs
  • Published Oct 15 2024
  • Format Hardcover
  • Page Count 368
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher Avery

Publishers Text

The James Beard Award-winning visionary behind one of the East Coast’s most iconic bakeries shares decades of wisdom and techniques for soul-fulfilling baking, with 60+ bread and pastry recipes.

Decades before sourdough took over Instagram, Daniel Leader was making his first celebrated loaves at Bread Alone, his pioneering upstate New York bakery. From revolutionizing artisan breadmaking in the eighties to operating the country’s first carbon-neutral bakery today, Bread Alone has existed at the cutting edge of bread and pastry for over forty years. A Slow Rise charts its legendary history and showcases its most beloved recipes.

The heart of Dan’s baking philosophy is his embrace of soft-skill baking—seeing, feeling, smelling, and even listening to your dough—over science-based techniques promising the perfect loaf. As Leader says, in baking, there is always an element of the unknown, and even a bit of magic. No two bakes are exactly the same, and it’s the idiosyncrasies of each loaf, cake, or crust that make baking such a thrill.

Here, across more than sixty recipes, Leader will teach you to bake with your senses, have patience, and form an almost meditative practice in the kitchen. Nostalgic, simple classics like Whole Wheat Bread and Hearty Seeded Sandwich Loaf live alongside more complex concoctions like Baltic Dark Rye and Fermented Wheat Bran and Barley Epis with Beet. For desserts everyone will love, Leader shares his recipes for treats like Lemon-Currant Einkorn Scones, Pistachio-Brown Butter Financiers, Blood Orange-Lemon Tart, and Mocha-Filled Brioche Buns.

A celebration of baking with heart and soul, A Slow Rise is a must-have for serious and novice home bakers alike.

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