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, ...

In this episode of In The Kitchen With Matt, I will show you how to make Rye bread from scratch. This easy homemade soda rye ...

Create a warm proofing area: Place the covered dough in a turned-off oven with the light on or with a small pan of boiling ...

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 ...

There are loads of simple white bread recipes out there, many of which yield multiple loaves worth of dough. Whether you’re a seasoned bread baker, or trying your hand at yeast breads for the first ...

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 a soft ...

My friend Wayne is the kind of guy who asks provocative questions. Over a sandwich one day, he asked, "Who do you suppose came up with the idea to grind up wheat and add yeast to make bread?" Since my ...