6-Ingredient Peasant Bread
While everyone else raves about their homemade sourdough, we’ll be basking in the glow of Alexandra Stafford’s peasant bread, from her cookbook
Bread Toast Crumbs. It’s just as satisfying to make at home but doesn’t require tending to a starter or any complicated techniques. In fact, it comes together with just five ingredients (plus butter for greasing) and you don’t even have to knead it.
Stafford calls for
unbleached all-purpose flour, which means it hasn’t been treated with bleaching agents and has a slightly denser texture. It will provide better structure to the loaves, but you can use bleached flour if that’s what you have. And since instant yeast doesn’t need to be rehydrated before you use it (unlike active dry yeast), you can dump it right in with the flour.
Alexandra Stafford’s Soft Sandwich Bread PureWow 1/28/2021
Sure, you could buy a loaf of sandwich bread and be on your way…but if you’ve never experienced the joy of biting into a fresh, fluffy slice of the homemade version, we highly encourage you to give it a try. Start with Alexandra Stafford’s recipe for soft sandwich bread (from her cookbook,
Alexandra (you can call her Ali) Stafford is best known for her popular food blog, Alexandra s Kitchen. You may also be familiar with her cookbook Bread Toast Crumbs
, cooking tutorials at Alexandra s Kitchen, or her Instagram feed @AlexandraCooks featuring mostly simple, always seasonal, delicious dishes. She recently launched an online cooking class subscription series on Airsubs!
Tarragon Chicken Salad Sandwiches
Chicken salad sounds kind of
meh on paper…but when you jazz it up with homemade tarragon mayonnaise and quick-pickled onions, it’s all we want to eat for lunch. Luckily, Alexandra Stafford’s tarragon chicken salad sandwiches (from her Cookbook,
Bread Toast Crumbs) are easy to make (and they taste better than the best deli sammie).
If you
really want to gild the lily, you can make Ali’s soft sandwich bread to assemble the sandwiches. You could bake it a day ahead and enjoy it all week or you could use store-bought bread and call it a day. We won’t judge.