French Bread – An Engineer's Perspective

Artisan French Bread

Back in the day when I’d wait with a jar of jam for Mom’s homemade bread to cool enough to slice, she could go to the local store and buy fresh cake yeast. It’s pretty hard to find cake yeast these days, unless you travel …

Braided French Bread – Quick

Bread is life to the French so it’s no surprise they’d have more bread recipes that Duncan has donuts. To make a really good French bread, you need two to three days of prep time, but sometimes you just want to crank out a quick …

Tempering Dough

Determining how to temper the dough when making fine bread.

Traditional French Baguette (slow Proofing)

This bread takes two days to make and while it seems simple is very involved.