I'll be honest: I haven't always been good at making bread. Mixing flour and water is fine, and I think kneading by hand is fun. It's the yeast that causes trouble. Yeast is essential to good bread, ...

Boxes of Fleischmann's yeast sit stacked on top of one another at a grocery store. - The Toidi/Shutterstock Yeast is certainly a handy item to have in your pantry, especially when you get the urge to ...

If you've wanted to dive into the process of making homemade bread at home, you have a lot of different directions that are possible. Each type of bread comes with its own set of directions, ...

So, you’re craving warm, fresh bread but, uh oh, no yeast in the house? Don’t worry, we’ve got you. Believe it or not, you can make delicious, fluffy bread without a single speck of yeast. No ...

In times of need, human ingenuity often shines. One great example of this is in Depression-era recipes like Hoover stew; when families couldn't afford certain pantry staples, they learned how to cook ...

Raisin “tea” doesn’t exactly look appetizing — waterlogged blobs bobbing in water. But bread leavened with the wild yeast that collects on the raisin skins and is extracted into the liquid is ...

Gusto Bread owner Arturo Enciso is redefining Mexican pastries from a bread baker’s point of view. At Gusto, kouign amann is made with masa and concha with sourdough starter in a new-wave moment for ...

I stumbled on Ken Forkish’s Evolutions in Bread just as I was giving up on baking sourdough bread. Giving up was, perhaps, too strong a term. More accurate: letting my starter languish in the back of ...