If you want to make your own bread at home, you will need to learn a little about bread formulation and bread chemistry, to make sure your baking efforts are successful, when making bread from scratch. There are different ingredients that have relative effects to the process. Continue reading
How to Make Wheat Bread: If you have read the list of ingredients on commercially bought, so called whole wheat bread, then chances are you were a bit confused. There were probably a lot of unpronounceable chemicals that went into making it, and chances are that whole grains weren’t even used. Continue reading
If you seriously love the bitey taste of sourdough bread, but are under the impression that you would never be able to make it at home yourself, then keep reading this article on sourdough bread making. Continue reading
Baking Bread Tips: There is not much that can beat the taste and the aroma of freshly baked bread. It is usually well worth the effort of bypassing the convenience of buying your bread, to have the comfort of making your own. Another benefit of baking homemade bread is that you will know exactly what ingredients are inside your loaf. Continue reading
While there is no exact date, evidence suggests that the very first sourdoughs were made by people around 6,000 years ago. They were most probably discovered by accident as the result of fermenting grain, and people quickly realized that the sourdough mixture could be saved from one batch to the next. Continue reading
There are many, many ways to make delicious breads. One of my favorite things is making cinnamon bread rolls. Working the dough with your hands is almost therapeutic, and nothing beats the aroma of the cinnamon as it’s baking in the oven.It doesn’t matter if you are making them in the traditional way, or jazzing them up with exotic ingredients, cinnamon rolls are one baked good that’s always a treat. Continue reading
Chemistry of Bread Making: While you can do a pretty good job of baking a loaf of bread by simply following a recipe, you will be able to do a much better job if you understand some of the chemistry of bread making. Each ingredient plays an important part in the process, and how the ingredients interact with one another is also important. However, do not worry, because what follows here is not too technical and should just help you to make better bread. Continue reading
Active dry yeast and instant yeast are the two main types of dry yeast, and the ones used most often in the home for baking bread. While both can be used interchangeably, there are some differences between each type of yeast. Understanding the differences will help you to make better bread, so with that in mind, let’s take a look at some yeast basics. Continue reading
This Pumpkin Seed Bread recipe is one of my personal favorites. Apart from the fact that I love the little crunchy-ish bits, pumpkin seeds are really a super food and very nutritious. This is a great way to get these little powerhouses into your body and also to get children to eat them. Continue reading