Article: Baking bread at home is worth the extra time

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The price of bread is skyrocketing along with everything else. When my favorite walnut bread costs $6 at the bakery but I can make a similar loaf at home for about 60 cents, it's time to pull out the old bread machine. Back when bread machines were the rage, European-style specialty breads weren't available at every supermarket and bakery in town. But as baguettes, boules and batards became common, I rarely used my bread machine any longer. But now cleaning up a bit of flour and waiting for dough to rise in the bread machine seems worth my time.

There's one essential trick I've learned as I've been experimenting: To get bread ...

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