This is the first of two bread recipes for winter baking. Neither are kneaded, but rather made with a stretch-and-fold motion right in the bowl. The second recipe, for focaccia, will run in this space ...

Unless you’re reading this story in your grandmother’s Brooklyn or Minnesota kitchen, a loaf of dark bread just out of the oven, you may be part of the vast majority of people for whom dense rye ...

Uses: Toasted, use as a savory crouton; as a robust element to stuffing, or swirled into a pot of hot soup. Flavor: Earthy and, depending on the variety (pumpernickel rye, Jewish seeded rye), it can ...