Category: Food
Created by: pedroturci
Number of Blossarys: 1
English (EN) Ciabatta is an Italian white bread made from wheat flour, water, olive oil, salt, and yeast, created in 1982 by a baker in Verona, Veneto, Italy, in response to the popularity of French baguettes. ...
The Maillard reaction is a chemical reaction between amino acids and reducing sugars that gives browned food its distinctive flavor. Seared steaks, fried dumplings, cookies and other kinds of ...
Pita is a family of yeast-leavened round flatbreads common in the Middle East, Mediterranean and neighboring areas. It is a relatively simple bread, made basically of wheat flour, water, a fat ...
In baking, rising is a physical process that happens because of fermentation. This process can be from a chemical reaction (with chemical leaveners, like baking soda), or from a biological process ...
Baking powder is a dry chemical leavening agent, a mixture of a carbonate or bicarbonate and a weak acid. The base and acid are prevented from reacting prematurely by the inclusion of a buffer such ...
Final proof consists of the last stage of a bread's fermentation process, right before the dough goes into the oven. In some types of dough, most noticeably doughs made mostly from rye flour, it is a ...
Long fermentation is a fermentation that occurs over a long period of time. The longer the bread dough ferments, the better it tastes, allegedly. This happens due to the higher concentration of ...
By: PedroF