Bread

Bread

Any foodstuff made of flour or meal that has been mixed into a dough or batter, and usually with added leavening agent, and then baked.

Industry: Baked goods

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active dry yeast

Baked goods; Bread

Commonly used for home baking purposes, this form of yeast consists of small dry morsels that remain inactive until mixed with water.

White flour with both the bran and germ removed, and then chemically whitened with either chlorine gas or benzoyl peroxide. Usually does not have enough protein that makes the gluten needed to get ...

all-purpose unbleached flour

Baked goods; Bread

Flour that can serve most baking purposes and does not go though a chemically-induced bleaching process as a means of speeding up aging.

English muffin

Baked goods; Bread

A circular breakfast yeast roll that was traditionally cooked on a griddle.

bagel

Baked goods; Bread

A doughnut-shaped chewy bread, commonly used as sandwich bread or as a breakfast item, consumed plain or with cream cheese, butter, or jams. This type of dense bread results from being boiled before ...

sourdough

Baked goods; Bread

Also known as the starter or mother dough or mother starter, sourdough uses live organisms, more specifically lactobacillus, that are found within the dough that allows it to keep for a long time; ...

old dough

Baked goods; Bread

Also known as pate fermente; process of extracting a portion of final dough and allowing it to sit until next dough is made, adding water and flour to maintain its ability to leaven; because pate ...