When cooking savory foods, you can often get away with substituting ingredients or loosely following a recipe (or foregoing one altogether). But when it comes to baking, experts know how important it ...

When a recipe calls for flour, many home-based chefs reach for the generic all-purpose kind. This makes sense for kitchen efficiency, as it works just fine in many recipes. However, if you happen to ...

What are your dreams and goals for 2025? Are they on your calendar and have you had conversations with your family or friends about putting them into action? On cold days when it’s tempting to be less ...

People love to bake during the holidays. Pies, cakes, cookies, you name it. The holiday season turns into the baking season. According to one survey, the holiday baking tradition is as essential as ...

I was running low on vital wheat gluten for making all whole-wheat bread this week, so I tried some of my recipes calling for bread flour. Oh, my. If you're a bread machine user (or someone who makes ...

ON THIS EPISODE, senior test kitchen editors Shilpa Uskokovic and Jesse Szewczyk are back with this month’s exciting bake: Jesse’s no-knead (and same day) Cheddar Jalapeño Loaf. Get those Dutch ovens ...