If you haven’t baked bread before and want a great starting recipe, try Jim Laney’s no-knead bread. Some tips: 1. You can halve the amount of salt. (1 bakers

If you haven’t baked bread before and want a great starting recipe, try Jim Laney’s no-knead bread. Some tips: 1. You can halve the amount of salt. (1 bakers’ percent of salt is plenty. I don’t know why most recipes call for 2%.) 2. Active dry yeast is obsolete, but that doesn’t stop it from being prominently sold in grocery stores. Get instant yeast instead. SAF Red or SAF Gold are excellent choices. Instant yeast will work in a recipe written for active dry yeast, but active dry yeast may not work in a recipe written for instant yeast. 3. Get a scale and use it. 4. You don’t actually need King Arthur Bread Flour, but you should use a high quality bread flour. I experimented once (quite a while ago), and IIRC Gold Medal worked well and Pillsbury was okay. King Arthur does make a consistent product, which is nice.