Bread Recipes

Our Bread for Beginners term in the Delia Online Cookery School is one of our most popular sections of the website.

We have videos showing you how to make simple wholemeal and white bread, easy rolls and soda bread and well as speciality breads.

Banana Bread Pudding with Toffee Sauce

This is a lightened-up version of the old English classic that used leftover bread. Cheats just need to ...

This is a lightened-up version of the old English classic that used leftover bread. Cheats just need to grab some dried breadcrumbs and throw it all together. Serve...

35 minutes - 45 minutes

Pizza Dough

Pizza dough is made in almost the same way as white bread – by hand or using a food processor, except that ...

Pizza dough is made in almost the same way as white bread – by hand or using a food processor, except that you add olive oil and a little sugar to the flour mixture an...

10 minutes - 12 minutes

Vegetarian

Bread and Butter Pudding with Raisins

This is one of those recipes that makes you glad you have ingredients left over. I prefer to make it wit...

This is one of those recipes that makes you glad you have ingredients left over. I prefer to make it with panettone - the traditional Italian Christmas cake that is...

40 minutes

Bruschetta with Tomato and Basil

Bruschetta is a very special type of toasted bread, pronounced brusketta. When I first tasted the...

Bruschetta is a very special type of toasted bread, pronounced brusketta. When I first tasted the real thing in Tuscany, it was one of the most memorable eat...

Vegetarian

Celeriac and Lancashire Cheese Bread

This is yet another favourite and blissfully easy bread, which is crunchy and crusty on the outside and sof...

This is yet another favourite and blissfully easy bread, which is crunchy and crusty on the outside and soft and squidgy within. The Delia Online Cookery School: Wa...

45 minutes - 50 minutes

Vegetarian

Cheese and Potato Bread

One thing we always love serving with asparagus is homemade potato bread to mop up all the lovely buttery s...

One thing we always love serving with asparagus is homemade potato bread to mop up all the lovely buttery sauce. This time we tried a new version with sage and stro...

45 minutes - 50 minutes

Vegetarian

Chocolate Bread and Butter Pudding

I have to thank Larkin Warren, a wonderful American chef, for her original recipe, which I have adapted. ...

I have to thank Larkin Warren, a wonderful American chef, for her original recipe, which I have adapted. It is quite simply one of the most brilliant hot puddings e...

30 minutes - 35 minutes

Cornmeal and Mixed-seed Bread

This is a very quick and easy loaf, but with lots of varying textures. And don't worry if the sunflower ...

This is a very quick and easy loaf, but with lots of varying textures. And don't worry if the sunflower seeds turn green during baking – it actually looks very attr...

50 minutes - 1 hour

Vegetarian

a picture of three little crostinis on a white plate with goats cheese topping and caper berries

Crostini Lazio

Italian in origin, crostini are 'little crusts'. In France they are called croutons, but both are little...

Italian in origin, crostini are 'little crusts'. In France they are called croutons, but both are little rounds or squares of bread brushed with olive oil or butter...

Croutons

Crisp, golden croutons are lovely sprinkled over the top of a bowl of hot or chilled soup. You can make ...

Crisp, golden croutons are lovely sprinkled over the top of a bowl of hot or chilled soup. You can make croutons a day ahead, and store them in an airtight containe...

10 minutes

picture of two white loaves, one in a tin

Easy White Loaf

A good, old-fashioned, English, white, crusty loaf, soft inside and lightly textured, is still hard to beat...

A good, old-fashioned, English, white, crusty loaf, soft inside and lightly textured, is still hard to beat - it's my favourite for soldiers to go with softly boiled e...

40 minutes

Filled Focaccia with Melted Fontina

I suppose I would describe this as a kind of hot, home-made sandwich. Lovely to serve straight from the ...

I suppose I would describe this as a kind of hot, home-made sandwich. Lovely to serve straight from the oven for lunch. We've used ham, cheese and sage here, but an...

20 minutes - 25 minutes

Focaccia

The Delia Online Cookery School: You can watch how easy it is to make Focaccia, and it's a great reci...

The Delia Online Cookery School: You can watch how easy it is to make Focaccia, and it's a great recipe for any first time bread maker, just click the image to p...

20 minutes - 25 minutes

Vegetarian

French Bread

You can also watch how to make French Bread in our Cookery School Video, just click the image to play.

30 minutes

Vegetarian

Gennaro Contaldo: Pane Squarato

Aniseed bread. Bread is sacred all over Italy, but in Salemi in Western Sicily, it's also an artform, ...

Aniseed bread. Bread is sacred all over Italy, but in Salemi in Western Sicily, it's also an artform, often worked into shapes depicting animals, fish, plants and...

30 minutes

Hot Cross Buns

Hot Cross Buns cannot be dashed off quickly but watching the dough rise is all very satisfying, and th...

Hot Cross Buns cannot be dashed off quickly but watching the dough rise is all very satisfying, and then your family can enjoy all that fruity, spicy stickiness.

15 minutes

Vegetarian

Large Croutons

From the book Delia's Complete Cookery Course, large croutons are used for Anchoiade, see the recipe below....

From the book Delia's Complete Cookery Course, large croutons are used for Anchoiade, see the recipe below. The Delia Online Cookery School: You can buy Frenc...

20 minutes - 25 minutes

Michael's Club Sandwich

My husband Michael has always been an ace sandwich maker (in fact, he is now an accomplished cook). Afte...

My husband Michael has always been an ace sandwich maker (in fact, he is now an accomplished cook). After a long-distance away match, we find this fits the bill per...

Mini Focaccia Bread

Focaccia is an Italian flat bread made with olive oil. The flavour of the oil is important, so it's advi...

Focaccia is an Italian flat bread made with olive oil. The flavour of the oil is important, so it's advisable to use a good, strong, fruity virgin olive oil for thi...

15 minutes - 30 minutes

Vegetarian

Mozzarella in Carrozza

Literally 'mozzarella in a carriage' – the carriage being two slices of bread dipped in beaten egg and deep...

Literally 'mozzarella in a carriage' – the carriage being two slices of bread dipped in beaten egg and deep-fried. This makes a great snack and I've found the addit...

1 minute

Parmesan Croutons

Home-made Parmesan Croutons will add a lovely crunch to a simple green salad. You can buy a vegetarian P...

Home-made Parmesan Croutons will add a lovely crunch to a simple green salad. You can buy a vegetarian Parmesan-style cheese from Bookham and Harrison Farms Ltd ...

10 minutes

Vegetarian

Parsnip, Parmesan and Sage Bread

I love to serve this bread with Curried Parsnip and Apple Soup with Parsnip Crisps, as it extends the parsn...

I love to serve this bread with Curried Parsnip and Apple Soup with Parsnip Crisps, as it extends the parsnip flavour. But it's also good with tomato or any o...

50 minutes

Vegetarian

a slice of toast propped up next to a pretty china jar with blue flowers drawn on the side and a white vase with blue flowers behind it

Perfect Toast

A friend of mine invented the term 'wangy', a very accurate word to describe what 90% of the world's cateri...

A friend of mine invented the term 'wangy', a very accurate word to describe what 90% of the world's catering establishments call toast. It's a good word bec...