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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bleached flour

Baked goods; Bread

Flour that uses a chemical agent to bleach it when processed because fresh wheat flour does not consistently yield good products. As flour ages with time, it whitens and become a better product; ...

crumb

Baked goods; Bread

The technical term for the inside portion of bread; texture and color differ according the the bread.

To allow leavening agents in bread to expand, a period of rest is needed. Proofing describes this period, typically occuring in two stages: the first is called "bulk proofing," which takes place as ...

gringe

Baked goods; Bread

A term which describes the cuts in dough in its final shape before baking. The gringes expand as the dough is baked and results in the crust consisting of different dimensions. The curl of the ...

straight dough

Baked goods; Bread

Referring to the process of composing dough rather than the dough itself, straight dough describes the method of mixing together all core ingredients to create a dough, the actual ingredients used ...

sponge dough

Baked goods; Bread

The other process of composing dough aside from straight dough, sponge dough refers to the method of baking bread that usually includes some form of preferment, which is the addition of more or extra ...