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English Muffin Toasting Bread

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Photo of sliced english muffin toasting bread.
Photo by Joseph De Leo, Food Styling by Pearl Jones

This yeasty, coarse-textured bread makes the best toast ever, a perfect partner to jam or preserves. A purely mix-it-slap-in-the-pan-bake-and-eat-it loaf, it’s earned a place of honor in our test kitchen’s hall of fame. 

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