Feel free to use whichever type of instant yeast you have on hand or what is accessible to you. We have had best results using the SAF Red Instant yeast in our Test Kitchen, but other brands perform equally well. You can even use active dry yeast in place of instant yeast; we've found that active dry yeast is a little bit slower off the mark than instant but that it usually catches up to the instant yeast by the end of a long rising period. If a recipe using instant yeast calls for the dough to “double in size, about 1 hour,” you may want to mentally add 15 to 20 minutes to this time if you're using active dry yeast. Happy baking! Kye@KAF

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