Baking bread 🍞
Bread baking is its own world, different from baking cookies, cakes or pies. Its unique combination of ingredients — flour, yeast, water, salt and, most importantly, time — requires you to approach it differently.
First and foremost, bread is alive. Its characteristic texture comes from fermentation, which is the basic activity of yeast, a single-celled fungus (the good kind, not the scary kind). Yeast reacts with the sugars in flour to create carbon dioxide (among other things), which leads to the airy, bubbly texture and the taste we associate with bread.
Key ingredients🔪:
- Flour
- Yeast
- Salt
- Water
- Time
- Butter, eggs and milk (optional)