Bread can be bought ready-made or be homemade. Supermarkets and shops stock more varieties than they used to, but specialist bakeries or markets will sell more interesting varieties. A baked loaf ...
If you have a recipe that calls for active dry yeast, don’t fret. You can swap in instant yeast; just reduce the amount of yeast by 25 percent. Fresh yeast is sold as a brick of compressed fresh yeast ...
The yeast microbes had been asleep for more than 5,000 years, buried deep in the pores of Egyptian ceramics, by the time Seamus Blackley came along and used them to bake a loaf of bread.
With its salty crust and oil-soaked dough, focaccia is the perfect partner to anything you might want to eat in lockdown. But what do you do with the leftovers from those diligently prepared dinners?