This is the first of two bread recipes for winter baking. Neither are kneaded, but rather made with a stretch-and-fold motion right in the bowl. The second recipe, for focaccia, will run in this space ...

Unless you’re reading this story in your grandmother’s Brooklyn or Minnesota kitchen, a loaf of dark bread just out of the oven, you may be part of the vast majority of people for whom dense rye ...

Ilyssa DeCasperis, Great Kills 1 pound seeded rye bread 1 stick butter 3 cups chopped celery 2 apples, such as Golden Delicious, peeled and chopped 1 medium onion, finely chopped 4 garlic cloves, ...