Yeast is perhaps one of the first things you would put in your shopping cart when planning to make a fluffy loaf of homemade ...

It's the yeast that causes trouble ... To put it simply, it eats the sugar in the dough, then its gaseous waste products cause your bread to rise and get fluffy. But this process only happens ...

The loaf begins with a sourdough starter, often called a "mother," which is a mixture of wild yeast and Lactobacillus ... you can mix the dough and finally bake your loaf. F&W's guide holds ...