Hello and welcome to Club Paneo, the meeting place for home-made bread fans! Today I’m going to tell you what yeast is, where it comes from and how it works in bread!
Yeast is a living cell from the mushroom family. Its scientific name is “Saccharomyces cerevisiae”. It was discovered by Louis Pasteur in 1857. It’s a micro-organism that’s 1/10th of a millimetre, not much bigger than a pinhead!
These days yeast is made on an industrial scale in a factory called a yeast-making factory. The work of the yeast maker consists of selecting the best stem cells and increasing them.
They then develop really quickly by feeding on sugars: Generally sugar beet molasses or sugar cane molasses is used. The number of yeast cells increases 50-fold in 24 hours! Once out of the factory, yeast can be found in various forms: - Liquid - Dried granules - Blocks of fresh yeast
Yeast is needed to make bread. It doesn’t work without this ingredient. Yeast helps the dough to rise. It
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