Popular quick breads include nut and fruit loaves, corn bread, muffins, biscuits, waffles, pancakes, and many coffee cakes. The perfect yeast bread is varied. It can be coarse, heavy, crusty, chewy and flavorful, while others are light, tender and delicate in taste. Flavors in yeast breads can range from sweet to savory to mildly sour. French Bread dough is a good example.
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Y east is a plant, more specifically a fungus, a one-celled form which plays a central role in all yeast bread recipes. There are about 160 different species of yeast, but the one that we are concerned with in bread baking is Saccharomyces cerevisiae. I n a process called fermentation , this yeast digests the sugars contained within the starch in flour. The gas is what causes the air bubbles to expand, previously mixed, whipped, etc. into the dough, and thus the bread will rise. No matter what type is used, most bread recipes go through all or some of the breadmaking steps , described throughout, of proofing, mixing, kneading, rising, shaping, rising again and baking.