Boxes of Fleischmann's yeast sit stacked on top of one another at a grocery store. - The Toidi/Shutterstock Yeast is certainly a handy item to have in your pantry, especially when you get the urge to ...

About once a year, I get an ambitious itch to buy an entire jar of baker's yeast. It's usually spurred by having saved one too many recipes for fluffy rolls. Who can say no to fluffy rolls? With a ...

They live in bread dough. They die in your oven. At the grocery store, where you buy them, they sit in little glass jars, dormant on the shelf, waiting to be rehydrated so they can do their life’s ...

A team of scientists at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands managed to successfully insert human muscle genes into a bit of baker’s yeast for the first time. The human genes in question ...

This is especially true if you're thinking of freezing your pizza base, bread dough or cinnamon rolls before baking.Dough that uses yeast as a leavener can generally be frozen without problems, but ...

Bread loaded with beta-carotene, the stuff that makes carrots orange and helps prevent blindness, could improve the health of millions of people, thanks to a strain of genetically enhanced yeast ...

Is it possible to make bread without yeast? As James Beard award-winning cookbook author Ken Forkish recently told Salon Food, there is really “no work-around unless you want to make your own ...

It might seem like the first ingredient needed when the baking bread would be yeast, but that’s not always the case. In fact, with certain items on grocery store shelves becoming more limited, people ...