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Every sandwich starts seventy-two hours earlier.

We mix, shape and bake all of our bread in-house, using a sourdough starter from 2015. Our team handles every aspect of our products, from the sourdough bread baking, to slicing the cheese and assembling and packaging our sandwiches. 

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Everything In-house

Bake, slice, assemble, pack, freeze. One roof, one team, one point of accountability, so quality does not get lost between vendors.

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Artisan Quality

People still talk about the fresh bread we sold across greater Baltimore. We've adapted those recipes for our sandwiches.

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Clean Ingredients

Our bread recipes are as simple as can be - flour, salt, water, and our own sourdough starter. We use real cheeses that evoke a gourmet experience.

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Slow Fermentation

We leaven every loaf with a sourdough starter we've kept alive since 2015. A strong starter, a simple recipe, and a long ferment are what make it special.

What we're proud of

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A Friendly Bread worker packing the products in cases
A Friendly Bread worker sealing the product
A Friendly Bread baker placing the bread loaves in the oven
Setting the dough in bread molds.
Lane with baked bread loaves

From sourdough starter to wrapped pallets.

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Stacked blocks of cheddar cheese for grilled cheese
A Friendly Bread baker mixing and prepping the dough.
Sliced bread in the oven to for freezing preparation

OUR CRAFT 

Benefits of Sourdough 

so how friendly is our bread ?

We know that nobody orders a grilled cheese to check off the "healthy" box that day. They order it for convenient indulgence. But it turns out that the better-tasting grilled cheese sandwich is also the more healthful one. Sourdough turns the same snack into a gourmet experience, and something you feel a little better about eating. 

 

We started as a sourdough bread business. The grilled cheese and other sourdough bread-based snacks came later. Making great sourdough bread remains our most impressive capability, because we are able to deliver a premium product - in flavor and health benefits.

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