Country-style Bread

Prepared Food AddinsGrainAllergen: WheatAllergen: GlutenYeastyTangyToastyChewyAiry

Nutrition (per 100 g)

Calories: 258
Protein (g): 9
Fat (g): 3.2
Carbs (g): 49
Fiber (g): 2.7
Sodium (mg): 490

Values vary with flour blend, hydration, and salt level; sourdough and long ferments can shift acidity and flavor.

Storage

Room temp: up to 2 days
Refrigerated: up to 5 days
Frozen: up to 90 days

Country-style bread is a rustic, crusty loaf with an open, irregular crumb. It offers a crackling crust and a mildly tangy, wheaty flavor with a chewy yet tender interior. It slices cleanly for sandwiches, toasts well for crostini or bruschetta, and soaks readily into soups and sauces; typically sold as round boules or oblong batards.

Rooted in European farmhouse baking, it draws on French pain de campagne and similar country loaves across Italy and Iberia. Bakers traditionally use a preferment or sourdough alongside baker’s yeast, and the style spread globally with modern artisan bakery revivals.