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, ...

Ask most home bakers what yeast does, and you'll probably hear that it makes bread rise. That's like saying a computer lets you type — it's true, but it's also a lot more than that. Yeast is a living ...

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 ...