Humble yeast is one of those ingredients that you forget about until you're halfway through making incredible challah bread and you realize you're all out. This tiny-but-mighty organism is the ...

Active dry yeast is made up of dehydrated yeast granules. It needs to be proofed before using it in a recipe to reactivate the dehydrated yeast organisms. Storing active dry yeast in a cool, dry place ...

Urban Billmeier had a craving for his grandmother's oatmeal bread. He had a list of ingredients. He had scant directions on a copy of the recipe that had been "written down sometime in the 1940s." Let ...