Folks: I’ve updated this article because I had one of the steps backwards for making the sourdough starter. I’m sorry for any confusion. As I mentioned in our article about Bill’s sourdough pizza ...

Yeast cake is an integral part of our cuisine. Making yeast cake can be time-consuming, but there are ways to prepare it more ...

To make sourdough bread you need to use a ‘starter’ mixture that takes the place of yeast. The starter takes about 5 days to develop (or you can buy it online), but once you have it you can ...

We are creating an environment for yeast cells to live in, multiply and generally be happy. To achieve this we need to make four key things available to our starter. Temperature: 24°C is the ...

Before commercial yeast became available, bakers would use a bubbling mixture of yeasts and bacteria (a leaven) to both aerate the crumb and give a sharper flavour to the wheat. You can make your ...