For many people, a loaf of braided bread is synonymous with Easter. The slightly sweet egg bread is easy to make and versatile. Master baker Punk Egan showed us how to make three kinds of bread from ...

Easter is a time to pull out all the traditional culinary stops and for many that means making braided sweet bread embedded with eggs for the Easter table. In many cultures, eggs are considered a new ...

To make the dough by hand: whisk the milk, sugar, eggs, yeast, lemon zest, anise seeds, and salt together in a large bowl. Gradually stir in 3 1/2 cups of the flour to make a thick batter. One ...

Over the weekend, things were busy in my home edition of the Foodday Test Kitchen, as I worked on recipes for various upcoming stories, including food features about Easter and Passover. The most time ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dough: This bread is made from a sweetened, yeasted dough, similar to brioche, made out of whole milk, granulated sugar, active ...

I have really good intentions about what to feed the family. In reality, we mostly eat the same food day after day after day. For all of my good intentions, time and energy too often get in the way.

There were Eastern European sweet yeast breads of all kinds — breads braided in the shapes of animals and baskets; braided breads with colored eggs baked into them (Pane di pasqua/Italian Easter bread ...

Finnish Braid remains a holiday staple. More than thirty years ago, before I even knew I would have a bakery, a reporter from The Goshen News came to my house to interview me about baking and take ...

One of the scariest things at Christmas is Jacob Marley’s ghost. Or, maybe, receiving a fruitcake. But I began to rethink fruitcake in 2008 after my book club read Truman Capote’s “A Christmas Memory.

Tsoureki (τσουρέκι in Greek) is the traditional sweet yeast bread Greeks make every year on Holy Thursday, and eat on Easter ...