What is the best bread maker overall? Homemade bread has the advantage of being fresher and more flavorful, plus you know exactly what’s in it. However, the process can be challenging and ...

Come for a taste of nostalgia with master baker Genevieve Bardwell as she shows how to make salt-rising bread, using the same three-step process that has been passed down through West Virginian ...

In the world of fermentation, there’s always something new to discover; start down the path of being interested in microbes and that interest takes you on a journey. That journey spans history. After ...

LOST CREEK, W.Va.LOST CREEK, W.Va. — Salt Rising bread has a long history in Appalachia. Typically, people outside of the region have never heard of it. The bread often brings to mind a variety of ...

It’s notoriously finicky. It takes the best part of two days to prepare: First, you prepare the starter, then the sponge, then the dough. Some say that it smells like unwashed feet, or malodorous ...

Pearl Haines was making soap with her daughter, a kettle of hog’s fat boiling in the yard and autumn leaves swirling behind them, when Jenny Bardwell stopped to say hello. She remembers the duo ...

Today's first recipe is an old-fashioned American one for salt-rising bread. According to the Cook's and Diner's Dictionary, this bread "depends for rising on the fermentation of a mixture of salt, ...