But let me save you the trawl through your library’s culinary archives and instead direct you to this delightfully easy, No-Knead Fougasse recipe by my colleague, our deputy food editor Hana Asbrink.

Fold the dough. Using wet hands or a bowl scraper, fold the dough in on itself 8 to 12 times, working your way around the ...

We can all be talented bakers when we make a no-knead bread. I envisioned this recipe as a fusion of Turkish bread, focaccia and lavosh. And that, it has become. Serve with or without cheeseboard ...

Focaccia. It’s just fun to say ... I would have used it instead. Knead into a workable bread dough. I use my Ankarsrum mixer ...

Folding method: Rather than having to tip the dough out on the counter and knead it, King Arthur's recipe calls for folding ...

Picture a bowl of soup or a salad without a slice of crusty bread to go with it. Worse still, imagine a deliciously tangy piece of Camembert cheese, served with a glass of red wine, but no ...

I’m glad that I persisted here, where more reasonable people would long since have given up, as I have finally created the dark, treacly bread I had hitherto only imagined and obsessed over.

Cover the dough and let it rest for fifteen minutes before performing the first turn. Wet your hands with water and then pick up a section of dough from one side and fold it into the middle. Repeat ...