MY HUSBAND is from West Virginia and therefore prides himself on his Appalachian-style resourcefulness. And so, one weekend at a rental house, far from the nearest grocery store, I wasn’t surprised ...

Baking bread is a race between the expanding force of the carbon dioxide produced by the yeast, which makes bread rise, and the stiffening of the crust as it dries, which keeps the loaf from expanding ...

BAKING bread is a race between the expanding force of the carbon dioxide produced by the yeast, which makes bread rise, and the stiffening of the crust as it dries, which keeps the loaf from expanding ...

Yeast is one of those ingredients you buy in the grocery store for baking without thinking twice about it. Sometimes the small packets sit unused for months in the cupboard, until the desire to bake a ...

Nothing says cozy like homemade bread. I first discovered the unusual addition of cooked rice in bread years ago in "English Bread and Yeast Cookery," written by the venerable British author Elizabeth ...

Growing up, I wasn’t a huge cheese fan, but I enjoyed it. Like many kids, parmesan on my pasta, pizza and mac and cheese were probably my favorite forms. But I was a picky eater, so I preferred ...

I hate Vegemite. There, I said it. It’s brown, goopy, pungent—all bad things in my book. It’s not just Vegemite I hate but all yeast extracts (Marmite, its British precursor, too) that are meant to be ...

Yeast is certainly a handy item to have in your pantry, especially when you get the urge to bake something delicious, like a ...

I usually know that things are going well for me when I start making life harder for myself in the kitchen. Met a deadline? Nothing like making mayonnaise from scratch to balance the scales. Upon ...