Baking gluten free white bread at home can seem like a daunting task, ... Keep in mind that the yeast needs some form of sugar to activate, so make sure your sweetener can still do the job.

The typical slice of sourdough bread has 96 calories and 18 grams of carbohydrates, while white bread has 80 calories and 15 grams of carbs per slice. So on numbers alone, sourdough doesn't look ...

That’s because sourdough bread is easy to make. Instead of using baker’s yeast, sourdough bread relies on a starter: a mixture of water and flour that develops a population of wild yeast.

Sourdough bread has gotten a reputation for being so much more than just another white bread. It has been described as magical, gorgeous, and, of course, delicious.

WHITE BREAD HAS been in American homes since at least the 1800s, says Aaron Strain, 54, a food politics professor at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash., and the author of “White Bread ...