When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. With people confined to their homes, there is more interest in home-baked bread than ever before.

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, ...

How is yeast made? Learn how to make your starter with fermented dough to produce bread with a lower glycemic index and kinder to gluten sensitivities. Creating your own yeast to fulfill your baking ...

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 ...