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What is leavening?
Leavening is the rise of dough or batter due to added ingredients such as yeast or baking powder
What are the three edible parts of flour?
Bran, Germ, and Endosperm
How is gluten development encouraged?
By mixing and kneading dough
Yeast is a multi-celled microorganism true or false?
-False it's single-celled
How does active dry yeast work?
-It is composed of dried yeast cells that need to have its dead cells washed away so the dormant living cells can work
What is a leavening agent?
Substance causing expansion of dough and batters by the release of gasses
How is flour made?
milled from grains of wheat
What are the two types of leavening?
-Biological and Physical
Is wild yeast achieved through fermentation of water and flour?
- Yes
Instant yeast has to be activated before use true or false?
-False
What can effect leavening?
Leaving agents can effect leavening suck as air, steam, yeast, baking soda etc..
How is gluten made?
With Glutenin and Gladin
In texture small air bubbles will result in...?
-A smoother texture
How does steam occur?
-occurs in all baked goods during cooking
How does physical leavening occur ?
-Occurs by ingredients being mechanically manipulated to create tiny air bubbles
What is steam?
-evaporated H2O
What kind of structure does gluten have?
-a web like structure that traps gas bubbles
Microorganism occur naturally in specific foods true or false?
False it occurs in ALL foods
What are the levels of saturation?
- unsaturated, saturated and supersaturated
What are the three types of fermentation?
-Lactic acid fermentation, Ethanol fermentation, and acetic acid fermentation
What does whisking do?
It introduces air into ingredients to create a foaming effect
What does fermentation do?
-It preserves produce
What is another name for microorganisms?
-microbes
What is a mixture?
- Are a combination of two or more substances which are not chemically united and do not exist in fixed proportions to each other
Does ascetic Acid fermentation creat sour or sweet tasting products?
Sour