It's very easy to make a Basic Sourdough Starter without yeast. It takes a bit of time, but the results are amazing and well worth it. There is nothing like a freshly baked loaf of sourdough bread.

Raise your hand if you nursed a sourdough starter in 2020. We had time on our hands, store shelves were empty, yeast was unavailable and the craze to comfort ourselves with home-baked bread was in ...

This recipe is to create a wild yeast culture that needs to be cured and refreshed until it is ready to be used as yeast in any type of dough. After your wild yeast starter culture is mixed let it ...

My sister is no science writer, and I'm no baker, but recently our worlds melded in a surprising way. Here's what happened: Last October, I attended a workshop on artisanal bread and cheese-making at ...

You just need to corral and nurture the stuff, which should be easy for anyone with some time and patience. By Henry Fountain Mr. Fountain, a longtime science reporter for The Times, made sourdough ...

SAN FRANCISCO — From a railing just above Boudin Bakery’s bustling workplace, Fernando Padilla signals for one of his fellow bakers to toss him a chunk of dough. The softball-sized glob settles softly ...

In my kitchen, there is regular talk of yeast. There’s always a sourdough starter going, and kombucha bubbles away in the big glass jar on the counter. For me, these are little culinary reminders that ...

Joe Palca told his sister, a baker in Brooklyn, N.Y., about a way to make sourdough bread using "wild" yeast starter. But she had a problem: It... My sister is no science writer, and I'm no baker, but ...