Description and ingredient list for A Bread Affair's breads

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You can taste the flavours of California's most famous wine county coming through in this traditional sourdough. Started with hand picked Napa County, organic Zinfandel grapes, in October of 1985, our master baker has carefully cultured A Bread Affair's exclusive sourdough starter to deliver the ultimate in taste.

The bread is light with a layered crust, perfect for almost any sandwich you can imagine. At A Bread Affair, we use this as the bread in our roast beef sandwich.

Ingredients: organic unbleached flour, filtered mountain lake water, organic wheat germ, organic malt, sea salt.

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Using the same Napa County, California starter as our amazing sourdough, this bread takes all the tradition and taste of our amazing sourdough and blends in the goodness and taste of whole wheat. Unique to A Bread Affair is the light texture, and our layered crust of our whole wheat sourdough bread.

This bread is bold enough to handle a sandwich with big flavours so think about prussuito and gruyere on your next whole wheat sourdough.

Ingredients: organic whole wheat flour, organic unbleached flour, filtered mountain lake water, organic wheat germ, organic malt, sea salt.

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Some enjoy our spelt because it makes the best toast in the world, some enjoy the rich connections spelt enjoys with the ancient world, and some enjoy this wheat free loaf because this is the one bread that they are able to enjoy without fear. Our spelt is made with a combination of whole spelt and unbleached white spelt flours creating a delightfully light and airy loaf that is perfect for any occasion that a wheat based bread is traditionally used.

Ingredients: organic unbleached spelt, organic whole spelt, filtered mountain lake water, honey, yeast, sea salt.

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If your mother or grandmother ever baked bread on the prairies using the wood stove at the summer house or homestead, you'll be feeling like you were 6 years old again. This bread has a soft crust of a yeast based bread, and the full flavour of white bread without the additives, stabilisers, chemicals, sugars, oils and GMO soy meal found in the industrial white breads.

A traditional white bread, made with the same secret ingredient that your mother used: love!

Ingredients: organic unbleached white flour, filtered mountain lake water, sea salt, yeast.

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Italian slipper bread, this thin chewy crusted bread is so light and airy on the inside, it's like eating a cloud! Fabulous with dips, oil and balsamic or with soft or creamery cheeses, this bread's delicate flavour allows any accompaniment to shine through.

A Bread Affair offers its Chiabatta plain or infused with rosemary, to suit your dinner, party or barbeque plan.

Ingredients: organic unbleached white flour, filtered mountain lake water, sea salt, yeast, organic malt.

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This is a hearty peasant bread with all the flavour of traditional European bread. Simply the finest accompaniment to hearty stews, soups and broths or on its own. The rich combination of wheat and rye flours leavened with our natural starter creates a flavour not surpassed in any bakery either here or in Europe.

Get into the peasant spirit and break this bread with your hands and enjoy it with friends!

Ingredients: organic whole wheat flour, organic whole rye flour, organic unbleached flour, filtered mountain lake water, sea salt.

Organic: Made with 86% certified organic ingredients

This bread shows our pride in B.C. and its world famous cranberries. This showcase product is often served at corporate morning meetings, at hotels and bed and breakfasts that offer continental breakfasts, or as your toast at home. The high protein Durham semolina flour adds a rich, buttery flavour with no added fats, oils or sugar.

And if your mind thought about how good this would taste with a turkey sandwich, phenomenal is the only word that comes to mind!

Ingredients: filtered mountain lake water, organic unbleached white flour, organic Durham semolina flour, cranberries, sea salt, organic malt.

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Our bakery is next door to the local chapter of Weight Watchers so we have had inquiries as to whether our bread fits into the profiles of Weight Watchers preferred products. Well, our 6 Grain is their most popular bread with low calories per slice, high in fibre and no added oils or fats.

Or it might just be the crisp crust and rich textured flavour of a pure grain bread that taken home by almost everyone that tastes it.

Ingredients: organic unbleached white flour, filtered mountain lake water, A Bread Affair organic grain mix (organic wheat, organic corn, organic triticale, organic barley, organic rye, organic millet), organic rye flour, blackstrap molasses, fancy molasses, sea salt, yeast.

Organic: Made with 87% certified organic ingredients

It's crazy to say, but our seed bread is so popular that we think the birds are spreading the word! A rich whole wheat bread lightly sweetened with honey and the goodness of flax seed, poppy seed, sunflower seed and sesame seed. We naturally leaven this bread over 2 days and bake it on a stone hearth. Great sandwich bread, especially with other big flavours like roast beef or other red meats or toasted in the morning to bring out the vivid flavours of the seeds.

Ingredients: filtered mountain lake water, organic unbleached white flour, organic whole wheat flour, honey, raisin juice, flax, poppy seed, sunflower seed, sesame seed, sea salt, organic malt.

Organic: Made with 88% certified organic ingredients.

Fabulous with deeply marbled blue cheese or aged cheddar, perhaps the best toast that you have ever had, or a lunch box treat for your spouse or children, this versatile bread is one of our best selling loaves. Our bakers start with a whole wheat dough and add whole apricots, walnuts, and raisins. No added sugars or oils ensure that the true flavour of the ingredients shine through and do not hide whatever topping you are adding. This bread is a personal favourite of the owner for his morning toast, topped with peanut butter and honey.

Ingredients: organic whole wheat flour, organic unbleached white flour, filtered mountain lake water, organic malt, sea salt, whole apricots, walnuts, raisins.

Organic: Made with 86% certified organic ingredients

Steeped in the history of the Bordeaux wine region of France is this special bread with a traditional French flare. Low in gluten, leavened in a traditional manner and high in flavour, this traditional rye bread is delicious plain or toasted; the perfect accompaniment to your coffee at breakfast or your wine at dinner. Try some today and we are sure that you will agree.

Ingredients: filtered mountain lake water, organic unbleached white flour, organic whole rye flour, walnuts, sea salt, yeast, wine vinegar, lemon juice.

Organic: YES

When the bakers first created this bread, we couldn't believe the response. We sampled it for 5 days and every person said that this was great bread. When it started in our baking schedule, it sold out every day for the first 30 days and still sells out most days. A 4 grain multigrain sweetened with honey, it is a perfect sandwich bread, moist with a rich flavourful taste of the grain. Come in early so that you won't be disappointed.

Ingredients: whole grain soaker (organic whole oats, organic whole rye, organic whole wheat, organic whole flax), organic unbleached white flour, filtered mountain lake water, organic whole wheat flour, organic rye flour, honey, sea salt, yeast.

Organic: Made with 85% certified organic Ingredients

I love this bread! Served plain, with butter, or with traditional pasta dishes, this bread is a powerhouse of flavour. We select and roast whole cloves of garlic to sweeten the flavour, and then mix the whole cloves in our traditional sourdough. We let the bread rest for 2 days to allow the flavours to fuse. Just before we put it in the oven, the loaf is split and stuffed with Gouda, Cheddar and Monterey Jack. Try it warmed in your oven or on the barbeque for a real taste sensation!

Ingredients: organic unbleached white flour, filtered mountain lake water, cheese (gouda, cheddar and monterey jack), roasted garlic, sea salt, organic wheat germ, organic malt

Organic: Made with 89% certified organic ingredients

Whether the taste of this bread makes you certain that you will be able to get your spouse or your kids off the white bread habit or the easy digestibility that sprouted grains have for many people, this loaf is certain to be one of the most popular in your home. A customer bought a loaf for the first time one afternoon and left it on the counter at home. When her teenaged son and a couple of his friends were done with their snack, she was back buying a second loaf that very afternoon.

We sprout the full kernel of wheat in the bakery for 3 days, grind it on site and bake with it. Sweetened lightly with grape juice, the bread has a slightly nut like flavour that almost everyone loves.

Ingredients: organic wheat kernels, organic whole wheat flour, filtered mountain lake water, fruit juices, honey, organic gluten, canola oil, sea salt, yeast, softese.

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Light in gluten, big on flavour, our light Montréal rye is the perfect accompaniment to your Reuben sandwich, pastrami, smoked meat or other deli sandwich. The traditional oval loaf, fresh from our oven is the choice of many of the finest delicatessens throughout B.C. This earthy bread is made with care using natural leavening. Free of any seeds or other flavourings, this bread will let the flavour of your sandwich shine through.

Ingredients: organic unbleached white flour, filtered mountain lake water, organic whole rye flour, sea salt, yeast.

If our bakery could talk, it would mimic Mae West saying, "Is that a baguette in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?" The history of the baguette is rich with many stories, including the entertaining one about the French army shoving them down their pants on Napoleon's long march to Russia. It is a shame that story is not true, but rather changes in the labour laws in the 1800's in France lead to the innovations which created baguettes.

Our baguettes are the signature product of the bakery, and are baked in the traditional French method using only flour, salt and water. This method takes 2 days from start to finish and is a primary reason why our baguettes have such little competition west of Montréal (well, we think west of Paris).

Our baguettes have a crust that is crisp and layered as a result of the stone hearth and steam oven we bake in, with a moist and open interior. It is little wonder that they are often bought in pairs, one to eat on the way home and one to actually make it home.

While our baguettes freeze exceptionally well, we would encourage you to eat them the same day they were baked. If you are freezing them for later use, please try to place them in a sealed plastic bag as quickly after you arrive home as possible.

It is easy to restore the crispy crust that will soften due to the humidity we enjoy during the winter months. Simply preheat your oven to 425 degrees F (about 220 C). Place the baguette in the hot oven for about 2-3 minutes and remove. Serve immediately.

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Light and airy on the inside with a crisp crust, our baguette is so versatile! Whether you are serving them as the bread basket at a formal dinner, sliced length ways for a sandwich or simply by breaking a piece off on the way home from the bakery, A Bread Affairs traditional baguette is perfect for all occasions.

Try some with our dips! They make easy hors d'oeuvres for a party or barbeque! Try it at your next pot luck.

Ingredients: organic unbleached white flour, filtered mountain lake water, sea salt.

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We've added a touch of the country to our traditional baguette using whole grain flour. The crumb is a rich natural wheat colour and a more nut-like flavour compared with the traditional baguette, but still light and airy, with a crisp crust. If you prefer the flavour of a whole grain bread, this is the baguette for you. Great anywhere you might use a traditional baguette, or with stews, soups or other hearty meals. Try it as toast! Perhaps you will add the expression "Circle Toast, please" to your breakfast table!

Ingredients: organic unbleached white flour, organic whole wheat flour, filtered mountain lake water, sea salt.

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We take our famous sourdough but shape it as a baguette to increase the amount of the crisp, layered crust. The result: an amazing sourdough that is perfect for your spinach dip, other spreads or sliced length ways for the best sandwich that you are likely to make!

Ingredients: organic unbleached flour, filtered mountain lake water, organic wheat germ, organic malt, sea salt.