Mistral MBM604 - Ingredients Used in Bread Making; Yeast and Flour Types; Liquids, Salt, and Sugar; Egg, Grease, and Baking Powder

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Ingredients Used in
Bread Making
Yeast
Yeast is a vital ingredient when bread making,
without it the bread will not rise. Your bread
maker maintains the optimum temperature
for the yeast to take eect, during the bread
making process.
Only use instant or fast acting yeast -
sometimes called easy bake.
Some yeast may require the use of a bread
improver. A bread improver will provide
additional gluten to the flour to produce a
beer loaf. If the weather is hot and humid, try
reducing the amount of yeast by 1⁄4 teaspoon
to prevent the dough from over rising.
Flour
In order for the bread to rise, the flour used has
to have a suiciently high protein content. We
recommend the use of a good quality strong
plain or bread flour.
1.Bread flour
Bread flour has high content of high gluten (so
it can be also called high-gluten flour which
contains high protein), it has good elastic and
can keep the size of the bread from collapsing
after rise. As the gluten content is higher
than the common flour, so it can be used
for making bread with large size and beer
inner ber. Bread flour is the most important
ingredient of making bread.
2.Plain flour
Flour that contains no baking powder, it is
applicable for making solid bread.
3.Whole-wheat flour
Whole-wheat flour is ground from grain.
It contains wheat skin and gluten. Whole-
wheat flour is heavier and more nutrient than
common flour. The bread made by whole-
wheat flour is usually small in size. So many
recipes usually combine the whole -wheat
flour or bread flour to achieve the best result
4.Black wheat flour
Black wheat flour, also named as rough
flour, it is a kind of high ber flour, and it is
similar with whole-wheat flour. To obtain
the large size after rising, it must be used in
combination with high proportion of bread
flour.
5.Self-rising flour
A type of flour that contains baking powder, it
is used for making cakes specially
Liquids
When liquids are mixed with flour, gluten is
formed. Gluten is necessary for the bread to
rise. Most recipes use dry milk and water, but
other liquids such as fresh milk and fruit juice
can be used.
Salt
In small amounts salt adds flavour and
controls yeast action. Too much salt will
inhibit the yeast and the bread will not rise
properly.
When adding ingredients to the bread pan,
yeast and salt should be kept separate.Other
ingredients used in bread making;
Sugar
Sugar is very important ingredient to increase
sweet and colour of bread. And it is also
considered as nourishment in the yeast
bread. white sugar is largely used,Brown
sugar,powder sugar or coon sugar may be
used by special requirment.
Egg
Adding egg to the mixture will improve the
bread texture and taste.
Grease, buer and vegetable oil
Grease can make bread soften and delay
storage life. Buer should be melted or
chopped to small particles before using.
Baking powder
Baking powder is used for rising the cake. As
it does not need rise time, and it can produce
the air, the air will form bubble to soften the
texture of bread utilizing chemical prin.