Yeast is one of those ingredients you buy in the grocery store for baking without thinking twice about it. Sometimes the small packets sit unused for months in the cupboard, until the desire to bake a ...

Humble yeast is one of those ingredients that you forget about until you're halfway through making incredible challah bread and you realize you're all out. This tiny-but-mighty organism is the ...

Active dry yeast is made up of dehydrated yeast granules. It needs to be proofed before using it in a recipe to reactivate the dehydrated yeast organisms. Storing active dry yeast in a cool, dry place ...

Urban Billmeier had a craving for his grandmother's oatmeal bread. He had a list of ingredients. He had scant directions on a copy of the recipe that had been "written down sometime in the 1940s." Let ...

Yeast is a vegan-friendly food. Neither animal nor plant, yeast is a microscopic member of the fungus family, and its most common culinary strain is Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Although yeast is ...