Yeast rising Dear Yeast rising, The beauty of bread is its simplicity. Flour and liquid are its main ingredients, along with yeast and sometimes salt.
Bread is high in complex carbohydrates, protein and B vitamins.
Egyptians learned how to produce these raised breads by using a piece of dough from each batch to start the next. It actually took thousands of more years of bread-baking before the process that made dough rise became fully understood. Of the 22 ingredients reduced in the milling of white flour, only four are replaced when the flour is enriched . Check the ingredient list closely before you purchase. A host of multi-grain breads have appeared on the market, containing ingredients such as oats, oat bran, corn, barley, sprouts and seeds, soy and rice flour and nuts.