Today's first recipe is an old-fashioned American one for salt-rising bread. According to the Cook's and Diner's Dictionary, this bread "depends for rising on the fermentation of a mixture of salt, ...

Its smell has been compared to the stink of overripe cheese, rotting tomatoes, dirty socks, but the delegation of bakers who make salt-rising bread still agree: You want to wake up to it! You want it ...

Recipes that appear in Idea Alley have not been tested by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. It's no secret Idea Alley has its ups and downs of having too many recipes and not nearly enough. During those ...

Jenny Bardwell explains how to salt-rise bread in a virtual talk for the Culinary Historians of New York. By Florence Fabricant The pandemic gave rise to a passion for sourdough among countless home ...

Yield: app. 6 cups Salt-rising bread information Until a recent request for a salt rising bread recipe, I wasn't familiar with it. In my search for information, I discovered several different ...

Growing up in West Virginia in the 1960s and '70s, Susan Brown would have a slice of salt rising bread, toasted, for Saturday morning breakfast. Her grandmother baked the bread with the mysterious and ...