Scientists are resurrecting a 5,000-year-old recipe to bake bread just like our ancestors did. Found in Turkey, this ancient bread was crafted from coarsely ground emmer wheat, a primitive grain ...

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 ...

Makes 1 large loaf. Author Sandra Oliver was sent this 100-year-old recipe by Donald Marsh of Holden, Maine. He found it in “The Maine Jubilee Cookbook,’’ submitted by Melvina W. Johnson of ...

Directions. Place the yeast, sugar, and beer in a large bowl or bowl of a stand mixer, and stir. Remove all the racks the oven but one and make sure that one is in the center.

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 ...

4. Proof the dough again. Drop the dough, seam-side down into a buttered eight-inch loaf pan or onto a parchment paper-lined sheet pan. Cover the dough loosely in plastic wrap or in a plastic bag.

Yet preserving the last of a loaf has become a lost art among American cooks. "Once, bread was something that was never thrown away," said Chad Robertson, the chef and celebrated baker at Tartine ...