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Top 5 Yeast Favs
Steps of Bread
Breads through thic or thin
How to Leaven up
100

What does yeast eat?

What is Sugar 

100

Name one " food" source of yeast.

What is a Sugar or Starch (flour) 

100

What step develops gluten in the dough?

 What is Kneading 

100

This kind of dough includes fat, eggs or dairy

What is enriched dough

100

This leavening agent needs a "friend" to activate 

What is Baking Soda?

200

What must you do to fresh yeast  to make it active dry or instant yeast? 

What is Dehydration

200

What can slow yeasts growth?

What is Salt

200

Stopping this step to soon can give your bread a "gummy" texture or crushed slice of bread.

What is Cooling

200

Fat, eggs, higher sugar content and dairy give breads a what kind of crust?

-Softer

-More golden color

-Sweeter flavors

-Richer texture

200

What are the two main examples of chemical leaveners?

What is Baking Soda and Baking Powder

300

Yeast produces alcohol and what other by product?

What is Carbon Dioxide

300

Yeast needs enough of this to feed, produce gas and deepen flavor 

What is Time

300

What step redistributes yeast and prevents large air pockets?

What is Punching down / degassing

300

This kind of dough has little to no fat or sugar

What is Lean Dough

300

What causes physical leavening in the oven?

What is Air or Steam

400

At what temperature does yeast start to die? 

What is 110 Fahrenheit 

400

If this is to low the yeast can slow down and become dormant. 

What is Temperature 

400

At this stage you should do a "visual check" by pressing the dough lightly 

What is Proofing or Second Rise?

400

Name 3 Lean doughs

Baguette, Pizza dough, Focaccia, White pullman loaf, Pita, Nana 

400
Southern biscuits hail from this baked good

What is Scones

500

What is the process called when yeast breaks down sugar?

What is Fermentation

500

If no sugar of any kind( honey, ect) is added to a bread recipe, yeast will start to break down this into sugar when starving.

What is Flour

500

What happens during “oven spring”?

-Rapid rise from trapped gases expanding in the oven

-Heat causes the gases to evaporate 

500

Give three examples of a Enriched dough.

Brioche, Challah, Cinn Rolls, Hawaiian Rolls, Croissants, Danish, Puff Pastry 

500
Where did all the bakers go in the 1860's causing a surpluses in chemical leavened items?

What was The Civil War

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