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important ingredients of making bread.
2. Plain flour
Plain flour is made by mixing well-chosen soft and hard wheat and applicable for
making express bread or cakes.
3. Whole wheat flour
Whole wheat flour is made by grinding whole wheat, 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 and bread flour to achieve best results.
4. Black wheat flour
Black wheat flour, also named by
“
rough flour”, is a kind of high fiber flour that is
similar to whole wheat flour. To obtain the large size after rising it must be used in
combination with high proportion of bread flour.
5. Cake powder
Cake powder is made by grinding soft wheat or low protein wheat, which is specially
used for making cakes. Different flour seems to be alike, Actually yeast performance or
absorbability of various flour differs largely for growing areas ,growth reasons ,
grinding process and storage life. You may choose flour with different trademark to test,
taste and compare in local market, and select the one which could produce the best
result according to your own experiences and taste.
6. Corn flour and oatmeal flour
Corn flour and oat flour are made by grinding corn and oatmeal respectively, they both
are the additive ingredients of making rough bread, which are used for enhancing the
flavor and texture.
7. Sugar
Sugar is very important ingredient to add sweet taste and color of bread. While it helps
to yeast bread as nourishment. white sugar is largely used. Brown sugar, powder sugar
or cotton sugar may be called by special requirements.
8. Yeast
Yeast passes doughy yeasting process, then produces carbon dioxide, making bread
expand and inner fibre soft. However, yeast fast breeding needs carbohydrate in sugar
and flour as nourishment.
1tsp. active dry yeast =3/4 tsp.instant yeast
5tsp. active dry yeast =1 tsp. instant yeast
2tsp. active dry yeast =1.5 tsp. instant yeast
Yeast must be stored in refrigerator as it will be killed at high temperature, before using
check the date and storage life of your yeast. Store it back to the refrigerator as soon as
possible after each use. Usually the failure of bread rising is caused by the dead yeast.
The ways described below will check whether your yeast is fresh and active or not.
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1
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pour 1/2 cup warm water (45-50
0
C) into a measuring cup
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2
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Put 1 tsp. white sugar into the cup and stir, then sprinkle 2tsp. yeast over the water.
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3
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Place the measuring cup in a warm place for about 10min. Do not stir the water.
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4
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The froth will be up to 1 cup. Otherwise the yeast is dead or inactive.
9. Salt
Salt is necessary to improve bread flavor and crust color. But salt can also restrain yeast
