Over the last 40-years, with a few exceptions, I have always bought my bread at stores. I knew generally how to make/bake bread, but just really never did it myself. Wife and I have started baking our own bread (trying to get back to basics), and have had successes and failures. One thing we...

Yeast is a living thing, so it isn't really good for a long time. Maybe a year. I am a baker, but I don't make sourdough bread. I went online and got the recipe for the sourdough starter and the bread recipes. I figure that if I cannot buy yeast that I can still make bread with a starter...

I posted on another thread about dutch ovens, but I thought I should put something in this section. I made bread from a recipe off of youtube. Super simple and very good tasting bread if you don't burn the bottom.:D: I recommend trying this out, especially if you have children or are baking...

Here's a quick break-making tip that I learned today....if you make a batch of bread that you aren't going to serve for a meal immediately, you can take the loaf/loaves out of the oven a little early - when they are cooked, but haven't quite reached that nice, golden brown color. Then, at...

I'd like to start milling my own grain and baking my own bread. However, I want to ensure that whatever methods, recipes, grain storage methods I use are workable in a situation where I may have limited or no power. What if I can't power an electric grain mill? What if I don't have access to...

my wife is baking homeade bread and as i watched i looked at the list of ingredeints the only one i dont have in storage is the yeast i looked at the package and it has a too close for longterm storage date I know it is alive and will not last for years so how do you store it ? is there a long...