Yeast breads Flashcards
5 key ingredients yeast bread
- flour
- water
- salt
- yeast
- optional ingredients: shortening/fat, milk- or other liquid, sugar, eggs
3 categories of leaveners
- chemical (bakin soda, bakin powder)
- physical/mechanical
- air (egg whites, creaming sugar + butter…)
- steam (liquids, eggs) - biological (yeast, bacteria)
yeast: what is produce + 3 basic functions
- produce zymase, and enzyme that ferment sugars:
glucose = ethanol+ CO2+ other by-product (which are flavor compunds + help develop the dough) - 3 basic functions:
1. CO2 leavens the dough
2. variety of by products contribute to bread flavor
3. fermentation process develops the dough
what is saccharomyces cerevisiae + 3 qualities that are important for baking
- baker’s yeast used in breadmaking
- 3 good qualities:
1. good CO2 production
2. development of desirable flavour
3. adequate keeping qualities
3 types of yeast you can buy
- compressed yeast: fresh, requires refrigeration unless it is frozen (very perishable)
- active dry yeast (dehydrated, rehydrated in water at 43-46degree :
- high temp= inactivated
- low temp= leaching of cells into liquid, which soften bread dough (gluthaonine is leaked) - instant yeast: added directly to dry ingredients
3 things to consider when you do yeast bread (yeast activity)
- sugar, moisture and temperature
1. temperature
optimal temperature for dough fermentation : 30-35 degree
2. sugar - high osmotic pressure (too much salt/sugar) inhibits the activity (because it keeps the water out and you need to rehydrate the yeast)
- must have enough food (sugar) to permit growth of microorganisms
3. moisture
hydration activates dormant yeast - pH sligtly acidic (4-6) is optimal
reaction to produce yeast (substrate, enzymes)
- sucrose, starch = glucose = ethanol + CO2 (so yeast needs glucose)
- subsrate (sucrose, starch)
- added to the dough (sucrose)
- naturally in flour (1-2% sucrose; starch) - enzymes hydrolyse longer chains
- flour amylase
- a-amylase catalyzes: starch = random , smaller pieces
- b-amylase catalyzes: starch= maltose - yeast
- maltase catalyzes: maltose= glucose+ glucose
- invertase catalyze: sucrose= glucose + fructose
* * there are a multide of enzymes in yeast: the smaller are the carbohydrates, the bigger will be the flavour
role of sugar + 3 consequences of larger amount
- small amount added (less than 8% of weight of flour):
provide a readily available substrate for immediate gas production by yeast - larger amount:
1. inhibits yeast activity
2. tenderized by interfering with gluten development (because gluten needs water so sugar will compete with it)
3. browning due to Maillard reaction
what wheat flour provides
it provides the proteins (glutenin and gliadin) from which gluten is developped during hydration and mixing
* hat gives that nice structure, does not crumble.. gluten has a lot of great things for that
flour: what is it, sources (7) and non-cereal sources (7)
- fine powder derived from endosperm of seeds or from other starchy food
- main source = wheat, but also come from oat, rye, barley, rice, corn, triticale (wheat and rye hybrid)
- non-cereal sources: potato, soy, chickpea, taro, cattail,arrowroot, coconut
** basis for all bakek good like yeast and quick breads
7 types of wheat flours
- Whole wheat *bran, germ, endosperm
- White (endosperm only)
- Gluten flour (milled in a way to retain gluten)
- All-purpose (gluten potential= in between cake and bread)
- Bread flour (high gluten)
- Pastry and cake (lower protein)
- Durum (semolina= high in proteins but not that much in glucose)
proteins in flours: 5 solubles, one insoluble in wheat
- Insoluble proteins in wheat: Gliadin and glutenin - Soluble flour proteins (in dilute salt solutions) 1. Albumins 2. Globulins 3. Glycoproteins 4. Nucleoproteins 5. Lipid-protein complexes 6. Enzymes: amylases and proteases
** quantity and quality of proteins in flour affect baking quality
3 types of flour with 0% gluten potential + order of flour with less to the most gluten potential
- rice, quinoa, buckwheat (0%)
- barley (3-4%)
- rye (6%)
- cake flour (6-8%)
- pastry flour (7-9%)
- the most: all type of wheat flours and alsor bread, yeast flour)
characteristics of gliadin (3) and glutenin (5) which represent 85% of the wheat flour protein
- gliadin:
1. Hydropholic, single spherical polypeptide chains
2. Fold onto themselves, bonding weakly with each other
3. Fluid and sticky
glutenin:
- Hydrophobic, longer than gliadin
- Largest component of gluten complex
- Bond more strongly with each other
- Form strong S-S bonds at the end of teh chains
- Contributes to elastic properties of flour dough
gluten controls what + forms what
- it control the rheological (flow) properties of dough: elasticity and plasticity (stability)
- it forms a continuous, 3-dimensional network of hydrated proteins in which starch granules are embedded