Bread: Country Living magazine's recipes

The rise of real bread Rural communities are coming together to bake their daily bread, plus CL's best places to buy real bread or flour

Bread winners part 1 Try our baker's dozen of readers' loaves recipes

Bread winners part 2 Try our baker's dozen of readers' loaves recipes

Reader's loaf - Ripon Christmas bread - Click here for our readers' loaf of the month. Lesley Straw shares a seasonal recipe for Ripon Christmas Loaf from Good Old-fashioned Teatime Treats by Jane Pettigrew.

Reader's loaf - Mixed-grain bread - Janet White from Cheltenham, shares her recipe for a mixed grain loaf, adapted from an old WI recipe.

Reader's loaf - Brown bread -  Tom Roberts from Essex shares his recipe for a brown loaf, adapted from Avoca Café Cookbook.

Reader's loaf - sourdough loaf - Libby Ashdown from Surrey shares her favourite recipe for a classic brown loaf

Reader's loaf - wholemeal sunflower and pumkin seed loaf - CL reader  Jenny Knapton from Nottinghamshire recommends her own creation, wholemeal sunflower- and pumpkin-seed loaf

Reader's loaf - herb bread  Click here for our readers' loaf of the month where Maria Nicolaou from Surrey shares her favourite recipe

Reader's loaf - honey and lavender loaf   Country Living's Picture Editor Jackie Swanson recommends her favourite bread recipe

Reader's loaf - hazelnut and apricot plait Country Living's Food and Drink Editor Alison Walker suggests the perfect teatime loaf