T o make sourdough bread — or any other sourdough creation, you need a starter. There are online sources for buying starters, but it’s pretty simple to build your own. All you need is flour, water and ...

This Cheddar Cheese Sourdough Bread is an easy, cheesy loaf made with active starter—perfect for beginners and delicious toasted or as a base for sandwiches. Sometimes being a sourdough blogger means ...

Ah, the sourdough starter. So simple, and yet, all consuming. In recent years, more people are attempting to make their own bread easily without yeast, and while sourdough starter only requires two ...

This Sourdough Pull Apart Garlic Bread is soft, fluffy, and layered with homemade garlic butter. Easy enough for beginners ...

Lizzy Briskin is a New York-based food and travel writer. The former food editor at Food Network and Real Simple magazines, she has written for Bon Appétit, Wirecutter, Women’s Health, Self, National ...

Everybody's stress baking these days. Making a crusty, pillow-shaped loaf of sourdough bread that looks as good as it tastes seems to be the ultimate, Instagram-worthy achievement for many aspiring ...

If you've been pondering playing around with a sourdough starter — creating a natural leavening agent by cultivating wild yeast using a paste of flour and water — it's a good time of year to start.

I was a chef for nearly 10 years, but I always shied away from baking, especially sourdough. I tried (and failed) for years, ...

The starter is sort of a watery dough that ferments over time and is necessary for making sourdough and other breads—you have to “feed” it regularly with fresh flour, which makes it begin to feel like ...