There’s a legend in my family that claims my great grandmother liked her toast burnt. Well, after making her Easter bread recipe several times, I’m tempted to think that her “preference” was just the ...

Challah, like most bread, is fairly straightforward — flour, yeast, water, eggs, and maybe a few other ingredients, depending on your recipe. But as we’ve seen with the recent trend for fancily ...

At the Franciscan Life Process Center, Sister Colleen Ann Nagle knows the right touch will yield the kind of fresh-from-the-oven bread, slathered with cream butter, that satisfies you like no other.

A while back, I was testing a recipe for grissini, or Italian breadsticks, that called for both baker's and brewer's yeast. Found in focaccia recipes, too, brewer's yeast is a holdover from the early ...