A cheese fondue needs some good quality bread. I best like a brown loaf of bread, such as a dunkles St. Gallerbrot, a dunkler Pfünder or a Ruchbrot, while others prefer white bread. This Fonduebrot here is a great, home-baked alternative that looks great too. You can either make it with brown or white flour, […]
Swiss bread recipe
Vier Stränge Zopf (Four String Braided Bread)

There are many ways to braid the Swiss Zopf bread. The most usual one is the one made of two strings, you can find the instructions here. Another option is a Zopf with four strings. It’s not as difficult as it sounds, and we show you here how to do it. First, prepare your Zopf […]
Brown Bread (Betty Bossi Hausbrot)

We Swiss are obsessed with fresh, crusty bread. Back in the days when the bread available in the US and UK was mostly the soft bread used for toast, many a Swiss was anxious to travel to the US or UK where they had to survive without their daily share of crusty bread. Decent bread […]