Remember no-knead bread? A year ago this Thursday, Mark Bittman published a recipe that turned into a craze - sweeping instant yeast off shelves in New York and inducing a run on Dutch ovens.
I imagine many people's weekends were spent like mine - with a bowl of flour, instant yeast and water fermenting in a warm corner of the kitchen as they went about their business, courtesy of Jim Lahey and that kitchen...
There's something to be said for a cake that you can whip up at 9 o'clock on a Friday night, after a serious doozy of a week, when you need some baking