“I’m going to bake bread!” my husband, Peter, announced.

Inwardly, I said, “Oh, no.”

Baking bread is not easy—until it is. Every person I know who bakes bread will agree. If there’s someone out there who tried baking bread for the first time, and it was a great success, I would like to hear about it because, in my experience, you have to bake a lot of bad bread before you bake anything close to edib…