There’s something grounding about creating your own sourdough starter from nothing more than whole wheat flour and water. It’s the kind of slow, patient process that our great-grandparents practiced ...

Different flours create different results. From tender cakes to chewy bread, here’s how using the right type of flour can make or break your baked goods.

Sourdough starter, a fermented mix of flour and water, is a staple for bakers. It's also a rich experimental testing ground ...

A large batch of cookies with chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, and sea salt sit on a cooling rack - Elena Veselova/Shutterstock We've all been there: you're getting ready to bake cookies, you're ...

For many people, spending more time at home over the past several weeks has opened up new opportunities to hone their domestic skills. As evidenced by Google's top recipe searches recently, one of ...

INGREDIENTS Pie Crust • 3 cups all-purpose flour • 1 tsp kosher salt • 1½ cups Crisco • 1 large egg • 1 Tbsp vinegar • 5 Tbsp ice water • 2–3 Tbsp additional ice water (as needed) Filling • 6–7 ...

Like many pantry emergencies, one that befell my mother in the early 1980s led to a genius bit of culinary improv that has persisted for three decades. Roberta Jackson was expecting an apartment full ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Making pie crust isn’t hard, but it can be daunting. I can help. I come from a long line of pie ladies, and we’ve made thousands of crusts, both flaky and ...