In the world of bread baking and alternative flours, rye is a bit of an anomaly. The vast majority of flour types used for bread come from wheat, whether it's whole wheat, bread flour, or just ...

It begins with the rye sourdough starter, made at least a week before you want to bake. Scoop a generous spoonful into about a liter of lukewarm water (if the starter is good, it will float). Use your ...

It’s almost fall, which means that my food cravings start to shift just a little bit. Roasted vegetables begin to supersede the delicate raw and thinly-shaved selections (like Chef Abra Berens’ ...

Red Hen Baking has gotten into the grinding business. Last week, the Middlesex company purchased a small stone mill, made by a father-and-son team in North Carolina, with which it now grinds some of ...

Like many, I’ve been spending my weekends baking something different. The best one I have stumbled across was for crispbread. Traditionally a light, crispy cracker made from rye, crispbreads have been ...

Usually each week I try and have a photo of one of the recipes I’m sharing. Well, for this week, we’re going back to the source for the rye bread recipe. Farmer Bruner came by yesterday and baled the ...

If you often struggle with that blocked-up, heavy feeling, new UK research offers hope. Dietitians say five everyday ...

INTENSE AS THE opening notes of Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 5,” rye bread always meant precisely two options to me: pumpernickel bagels as an occasional break in my bagel routine, and a Reuben, one of ...