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2. Baker's yeast - Wikipedia

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   Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the yeast commonly used as baker's yeast. Gradation marks are 1 μm apart.. Baker yeast is the common name for the strains of yeast commonly used in baking bread and other bakery products, serving as a leavening agent which causes the bread to rise (expand and become lighter and softer) by converting the fermentable sugars present in the dough into carbon dioxide and ...

3. Saccharomyces cerevisiae - Wikipedia

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   S. cerevisiae is used in baking; the carbon dioxide generated by the fermentation is used as a leavening agent in bread and other baked goods. Historically, this use was closely linked to the brewing industry's use of yeast, as bakers took or bought the barm or yeast-filled foam from brewing ale from the brewers (producing the barm cake ...

4. Yeast - Wikipedia

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   Many types of yeasts are used for making many foods: baker's yeast in bread production, brewer's yeast in beer fermentation, and yeast in wine fermentation and for xylitol production. [57] So-called red rice yeast is actually a mold, Monascus purpureus. Yeasts include some of the most widely used model organisms for genetics and cell biology. [58]

5. The Real Truth Behind What Sets Active Dry & Instant Yeast Apart

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   [table-of-contents] stripped. Whether you're making a loaf of bread or DIY-ing your own crust for pizza night, you need yeast to do the heavy lifting.And when we say lifting, we're being literal ...

6. It's Time To Unpack WTF Is Going On With Yeast - AOL

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   When used in substitution, 1 ounce of fresh yeast is equivalent to 0.4 ounce of active dry yeast or 0.33 ounce of instant yeast. To substitute for a ¼-ounce packet of active dry yeast, use about ...

7. Microbial food cultures - Wikipedia

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   The most familiar yeast in food production, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, has been used in brewing and baking for thousands of years. [citation needed] S. cerevisiae feeds on the sugars present in the bread dough and produces the gas carbon dioxide. This forms bubbles within the dough, causing it to expand and the bread to rise.

8. Sponge and dough - Wikipedia

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   The sponge and dough method is a two-step bread making process: in the first step a sponge is made and allowed to ferment for a period of time, and in the second step the sponge is added to the final dough's ingredients, [1] creating the total formula. [2] In this usage, synonyms for sponge are yeast starter or yeast pre-ferment.

9. What is Irish soda bread? Here's the history behind this St ...

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   Lessenden shares that to make a bread soda bread, the use of baking soda and buttermilk to leaven (rise) is necessary. While the leavening process makes this bread soda bread, the history of ...