Our Interactive Recipe Pantry
Best Homemade Bread Recipes
Welcome to our curated collection of easy bread recipes and artisan bread baking guides. Whether you're a complete beginner or an experienced baker exploring advanced sourdough techniques, you'll find tested recipes with step-by-step instructions.
Browse by leavening method — sourdough or commercial yeast — then explore sub-sections for sandwich loaves, artisan breads, enriched pastries, and more.
Featured Recipes
Henry's Foolproof Sourdough Loaf
The Loaf That Started It All
A simple, reliable, and flavorful sourdough recipe that delivers great results every time
Classic Poolish Baguette
The Art of Traditional French Baking
Thin, shattering crust and open crumb from a traditional {{poolish}} pre-ferment
Henry's Japanese Milk Bread (Shokupan)
Pillowy-soft loaf that stays fresh for days
Tangzhong magic for the softest bread you'll ever make
Henry's Big, Gooey Cinnamon Rolls
The Ultimate Make-Ahead Rolls That'll Make You a Legend
12 perfectly tender rolls using the tangzhong method
Ligurian-Style Focaccia
The Ultimate Guide: Yeasted & Sourdough Versions
Golden, crispy perfection with an impossibly soft interior – featuring the traditional {{brine}} technique that makes Ligurian {{focaccia}} legendary.
Overnight French Bread
The Recipe That Lets Time Do the Work
Two shapes, one foolproof method, real bakery flavor
Kids Can Bake
Hands-on recipes for families, classrooms, and scout troops. Real baking, real fun.
Sourdough Breads
Naturally leavened with wild yeast. Deeper flavor, longer fermentation.
Sourdough Fundamentals
Start here: guides, starter care, and everything you need before your first loaf.
Classic Sourdough Loaves
Country sourdough, rye, rustic loaves, and baguettes. The foundation of wild-yeast baking.
Sourdough Specialty & Sandwich Breads
Bagels, English muffins, shokupan, and sandwich loaves with sourdough tang.
Sourdough Discard Recipes
Zero-waste recipes for your unfed starter: pancakes, crackers, waffles, and more.
Sourdough Enriched & Pastries
Brioche-style breads, cinnamon rolls, babka, and king cake made with wild yeast.
Yeasted Breads
Commercial yeast for reliable, predictable results. Great for beginners.
Quick & Easy Yeasted Breads
Same-day recipes without preferments. Perfect for beginners or busy weeknights.
Sandwich Loaves & Rolls
White and wheat loaves, Pullman bread, hamburger and hot-dog buns for everyday use.
Artisan Yeasted Breads
Longer fermentation and preferments for complex flavor: poolish baguettes, overnight French bread, ciabatta.
Enriched Breads & Pastries
Brioche, babka, challah, donuts, cinnamon rolls, milk bread, and Danish pastry.
Flatbreads & Pizza
Focaccia, pita, and pizza doughs for crispy, chewy results.
Special Techniques
Tangzhong, yeast water, and other advanced methods that cross leavening boundaries.
More Delicious Recipes
Additional tried-and-tested recipes from our collection.
Our Community
About Crust & Crumb Academy
Crust & Crumb Academy is the #1 ranked community on Skool, verified by ProveWorth with a perfect 5.0 rating — not just #1 in bread, not just #1 in food, but #1 across all 191,000+ communities on the entire platform. That ranking is third-party verified, not a self-proclaimed title. The Academy also holds Skool's star badge, placing it in the top 1% of all communities on the platform.
Founded by Henry Hunter Jr., the Academy grew from a simple idea: most bread education is broken — too much gatekeeping, too much perfectionism, and not enough real teaching. Crust & Crumb Academy was built to fix that.
By the Numbers
The community has grown to 389 members in just over two months, with an 89% engagement rate and near-zero churn. For context, the average Skool community engagement rate hovers around 20–30%, so Crust & Crumb runs at nearly three times the industry standard. Members don't just join, they participate: they post their bakes, ask real questions, share honest feedback, and show up for weekly Saturday bake-alongs that have grown from 400+ comments to 1,000+ comments in a single working thread. The Japanese Milk Bread bake-along crossed that milestone while the bread was still cooling.
Who's Behind It
Henry Hunter brings 26 years of professional marketing and advertising experience from CBS and Fox, combined with decades of hands-on artisan bread baking. He sold 80–90 loaves per farmers market at his peak, learned bread making from a German baker named Herr Sherman during his Army service, and built Baking Great Bread at Home into a 50,000+ member Facebook community before launching the Academy.
He's the author of multiple books, including Sourdough for the Rest of Us, The Yeast Water Handbook, and From Oven to Market, a guide to building a bread business at farmers markets.
What Makes It Different
The Academy operates on a philosophy of "coaching, not cheerleading." Members don't come here to collect likes; they come here to get better. The community culture values honest feedback, learning from failures, and progress over perfection. When someone posts an overproofed loaf, the response isn't empty praise. It's a real conversation about what happened, what to look for next time, and how to nail it on the next bake.
That culture has created something rare: a community that coaches itself. Members jump in with answers, share techniques, troubleshoot each other's dough, and push each other forward — often before Henry can even type a reply.
The curriculum includes structured courses (Sourdough for the Rest of Us, the Yeast Water Method), live Saturday bake-alongs, a growing library of 65+ recipes in the Recipe Pantry app, and upcoming premium courses like From Oven to Market, which teaches home bakers how to build profitable farmers market businesses.
The Ecosystem
Crust & Crumb Academy is part of a larger educational ecosystem that includes the Recipe Pantry app (with interactive timers, scaling tools, voice navigation, and an AI baking assistant), BakingGreatBread.com, a YouTube channel, and the flagship Facebook group. Everything connects back to one mission: helping real people bake real bread, without the pretension.