Making bread using yeast
Yeast is one of the oldest cooking ingredients, it was discovered several thousand years as a leavening or rising agent. There's a few different types of yeast that can be used in bread-making, but they roughly fall into two categories: Fresh yeast and dried yeast. ...
Baking and Cooking with oils and salts
When cooking, we nearly always need to use oil and salt, but which type of oil or salt should we use in different recipes? I've tried to go through some of the commonly available oils and salts below. ...
Make your own italian herb mix from scratch
If you've got a batch of fresh herbs, or prefer to make up italian seasoning from scratch, then this is my go to for the mix ratios. In fact in all my recipes when I suggest "Italian herb mix" you can either use shop bought or this. What we call italian seasoning is a general purpose approximation of the herbs used...
A few notes for those getting started breadmaking
Even though bread often has just a handful of ingredients, it is actually quite difficult to get good results. As with most people starting out bread making, my first loaves were heavy and borderline inedible, even when following instructions quite closely. That led me to to read a few books on baking, then I understood a few things: ...
Tools needed for bread making
Bread making is one of the few hobbies that has a very low barrier to entry, just a regular household oven, and some kind of baking tray are needed. Most households will already have enough to get started. However, although you could make bread without most of the tools below these are the items that I use often. ...
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