Photo illustration by Lille Allen; see below for full credits I stumbled on Ken Forkish’s Evolutions in Bread ... flour I bought wasn’t well suited to the exact proportions of the recipe ...

On the oher hand, if you want to get the ingredients to make a single loaf of bread -- flour, yeast, salt, oil -- they typically average under 25 cents. Plus, you can customize your load to fit ...

If the idea of baking bread ... and flour two old baked bean cans, or a 500 gram loaf tin. It’s important to have your oven preheated and your cans or tin prepared before starting the recipe ...