Easy bread recipes are the way to go if you’re new to baking bread, and quick breads, made without yeast, are particularly simple to master. Worried about your loaf going bad before you can ...

Cinnamon buns. Mmmm. So, how does yeast work? While the bread is baking, the yeast feeds on the sugar and starches in your dough. This activity produces carbon dioxide, which causes the dough to rise.

But what about the home cooks who are intrigued, rather than bothered, by the idea of bread baking? Despite generations-worth of recipes and tips, yeast-raised loaves are notoriously finicky ...

In his book Bread, Jeffrey Hamelman explains that dried yeasts, like instant or active dry, are more sensitive to doughs with higher sugar content. I mostly use fresh yeast when baking sweet ...

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