Learn simple bread shaping methods that help transform basic dough into soft, golden, bakery-style loaves. Easy techniques ...

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On a piece of paper that the teacher handed to me were the words “precocity” and “paleontology.” It was the late 1970s, and I was a grade-schooler who’d recently arrived from Vietnam. We’d taken a ...

The videos all began in a similar fashion. The camera would linger on a bulbous, smooth ball of airy dough until a hand appeared out of frame to punch the center like a boxer jabbing at a bag. It ...

Apple butter is essentially caramelized apple sauce — a fruit purée that slow-cooks with water or cider until the apple’s natural sugars turn a dark, toasty brown. The mixture is augmented with baking ...

Baking bread is an intimidating proposal for many people—and for good reason. There are so many variables at play, only some of which you can control. If you’ve ever found yourself wishing for a bread ...

Flour has been a hot commodity at grocery stores during the shopping frenzy amid the current coronavirus crisis. Shelves have been cleared of all varieties. And packages of yeast have been sparse, too ...

Baking your buns in the backcountry may sound like a euphemism for a day with a heavy pack and 10,000 feet of elevation gain, but in this story, we mean it literally: you should be baking your buns in ...