Best herbs for growing bread baking ingredients

Nothing tastes more delicious than freshly baked bread flavoured with your garden. This list of eight herbs is perfect for people who simply want to grow herbs they can use, fresh or dried, to make their own unique herbal breads.

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Basil Pexels An easily available herb, basil leaves can be added to fresh or dried bread dough. Basil complements garlic and can be used with delicious garlic basil.

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By DR NEIL OVERY / Getty Images This biennial plant is grown for its tasty seeds. Cumin seeds are used in pumpernickel bread and rye bread.

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Chives Westend61 / Getty Images Chives are hardy perennials in the garden that are easy to grow. Chives can be used freshly chopped and added to bread dough for a mild onion flavour. Garlic bread can also be enlivened with cream.

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Dill Lew Robertson / Getty Images Like cumin, the bile plant grows for its spicy seeds. The seeds are used to flavor bread and cookies. Finely ground seeds may be flavored with wax.

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Fennel Julie Woodhouse / Getty Images Fennel is a perennial seed that’s easy to start. The seeds are harvested, dried and used to flavour bread and biscuits.

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Rosemary Hakan Jansson / Getty Images Rosemary is a favorite of many gardeners. A small amount of finely ground leaves can be added to bread dough for flavour. Another way of flavouring bread with rosemary is to put a rosemary fig on the baking paper when baking the bread. This will flavour your bread, as well as the kitchen.

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Sage congerdesign / Pixabay / CC by 0 Cheese is another popular garden herb. It can be added to fresh or dried bread dough and sauces for a delicious flavor.

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Stem Johner Images / Getty Images Garden thyme, a perennial, can be grown to flavor bread and cookies. If you use fresh, you should use only a small amount for a strong flavour. When dried and finely ground, thyme can be mixed with a tasty spread to make bread.