Yeast's benefits to bread making were long appreciated by ancient Egyptians, although whether they used a sourdough starter ...

This recipe is as fun to eat as monkey bread (little balls of yeast dough that are baked in a pan together, then pulled apart at the table) but a lot less time-consuming to make.

Active dry yeast is also much slower to ferment than instant or fresh yeast, increasing the dough’s proof time. All told, this yeast is a demanding diva and I, for one, don’t quite have the ...

Blakeslee’s advice for safely freezing yeast bread dough includes these tips from Iowa State University Extension and Outreach: Increase the yeast by ¼ to ½ teaspoon per 3 cups of flour to ...

Winter is my bread season. Not in terms of eating—please, that’s a year-round practice—but in terms of baking. While I love a crusty, seeded batard or tomato stained focaccia, I find eating ...