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Food Science Tip: Add Steam When Baking Bread

Ever wonder how professional bakers get those beautifully domed loaves a bread with glossy brown crusts? The secret - at least one of them - is steam......

Word of Mouth: Chapati

Chapati [chuh-pah-tee] noun: Pan-grilled unleavened flatbread eaten in India, East Africa, and most of South Asia. Chapati is ubiquitous in Kenya; big golden wedges of this flat, chewy bread were se...

Recipe: Two-Ingredient Biscuits

Did you know that you can make homemade biscuits from scratch with only two ingredients? And no, they don't involve Bisquick. ...

Gallery: Ten Breads for Soup-Dipping

So you've heard the news right? February is soup month here at The Kitchn. Along with lots of soup recipes, we'll be blogging soup tools, tips and serving suggestions. A nice hunk of bread is essentia...

Tip: Freeze Bread Remainders

We rarely find ourselves faced with a surfeit of bread in our household; we buy one loaf per week at the farmer's market and it gets devoured pretty quickly. Sometimes, however, there's a crust or hee...

Sleepy Morning Question: How Do You Like Your Toast?

White, wheat, or rye? Plain, buttered, or with jam? Morning, noon, or night? Oh, the variations are endless! But the question is: which one do you like the very best?...

Bread Baking for the Intimidated: Parmesan Rolls

Did you resolve to bake bread this year? Have you done it yet? If shaping a loaf still sounds scary, these savory little rolls from Gourmet may be a good preliminary exercise......

Bread Baking Tip: Punching Dough vs. Folding Dough

Here's one for those of you who have resolved to bake more bread in the new year! Does it make a difference whether you punch your dough down after its first rise or gently fold it over onto itself? I...

Working with Yeast: Be Not Afraid!

When I talk to people about baking bread, one of the first things I usually hear is "Oh, but I'm afraid of yeast." So if you feel this way, you are definitely not alone! I'm not going to try and convi...

Weekend Cooking: Bake Bread!

When it's dreary and cold outside, we can't think of anything better than filling the house inside with the smells of baking bread. If you've been dreaming of baking your own bread but have been nervo...

Recipe Request: Looking for Apple Cheddar Bread Recipe

Here's a good question and recipe requestion from reader Thanh-Thuy, who writes: The Great Harvest bakery here in Burlington, Vermont has a delicious apple cheddar bread, I've always wanted to bake i...

Baker's Techniques: How to do the Windowpane Test when Kneading Bread

The windowpane test is one of the best ways to tell if you've sufficiently kneaded your bread dough, though it can sound like a pretty bizarre instruction when you come across it in a recipe! Here's w...

Good Question: Best Holiday Quick Breads Without Pumpkin or Cranberries?

Here's a holiday baking question from reader Ashley. Maybe you can help? She writes: I have a holiday baking dilemma. I want to bake a breakfasty quick bread for the holidays but my boyfriend hates ...

Times Top 5: Thanksgiving Staples You Can Make Ahead
From the NY Times Dining Section 11.12.08

Oh, to have been in Melissa Clark's kitchen when she was baking these Parker House rolls with cranberry butter. They're just the beginning, by the way. She bakes four kinds of bread for her column in ...

Recipe Review: Revisiting the French Country Boule

The last time we made this recipe, we weren't very impressed with the results. But now that the weather's cooler and the sting of disappointment has faded, we decided to give it another chance. Hear o...

Terra Cotta Bread Warmer from JBK Pottery

Warm bread is very, very important to us. It's always disappointing to be served cold, clammy bread in a restaurant. When we bake for dinner we let the bread cool for an hour, slice it, then fold it q...

Have You Tried the Quicker Whole Wheat No-Knead Bread?

No-Knead bread is back! Mark Bittman returned to the phenomenally popular recipe in last week's Times dining section, tweaking and fiddling with the recipe to make it easier, faster, and whole-grain. ...

Baking Technique: How to Shape a Round Loaf

When shaping a round loaf - or any loaf, for that matter - your primary goal is to stretch the gluten and create surface tension. A taut skin helps the loaf to maintain its shape during the final rise...

Good Question: Best Healthy Sandwich Bread?

Here's a good question from reader A. Can you help her out? For the longest time I have been a fan of Ezekiel brand bread; namely the 7 Sprouted Grains. Reasons for liking this bread: density, soy ...

Recipe Review: Oatmeal Toasting Bread

An egg on a crispy slice of toast is an essential part of our morning routine. We usually buy whole grain or oatmeal bread, but when we ran out of bread a few days ago, we decided to plunge into bakin...

Expandable Bread Keeper

Where do you keep your bread? We recently answered a question from a reader about how to store bread. We recommended a good bread box, and there were some great suggestions in the comments as well. ...

The Locavore’s Delight: Five Delicious Reasons to Appreciate the Bay Area

De la Paz Coffee. They'll roast your coffee in the morning and deliver it to your home or office that afternoon. On their bicycles. Four more below the jump!...

How To Make Banana Bread In Under Ten Minutes

We had a bunch of bananas turning very, very brown on the counter this week, but we weren't in a baking mood. We didn't want to haul out the mixer and soften the butter and dirty two bowls...you get t...

Recipe Review: Daniel Leader's Ricotta Bread

Like an ant to the picnic, we couldn't resist trying out another bread recipe from Daniel Leader's book, Local Breads, this past weekend. We had such success making baguettes last time, so we thought...

Baker's Tools: Proofing Baskets and How to Use Them

Ever wonder how artisan bread bakers get such perfect round loaves every single time? Chances are that they're using a proofing basket to help the loaves keep their shape and structure through their ...

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