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Daktyla (Greek: Δάχτυλα) is a leavened 'country' or 'village' bread from Greece, [1] but also popular in Cyprus [2] and Turkey. [3]It has a segmented shape resembling fingers of bread, which give it its name of 'finger bread' [4] (Δάχτυλα, Daktyla in Greek means "fingers" [1]), which is made by making deep slashes in a loaf before baking, [3] or making a row of rolls of dough and ...
In the 1940s, a Rockport restaurant owned by Bill and Melissa Smith called The Blacksmith Shop on Mount Pleasant Street started baking the bread for their restaurant in a small bakery on Main St. They baked about 80 loaves a day until 1956, when they built a modern $250,000 bakery on Pooles Lane.
Whole wheat bread or wholemeal bread is a type of bread made using flour that is partly or entirely milled from whole or almost-whole wheat grains, see whole-wheat flour and whole grain. It is one kind of brown bread. Synonyms or near-synonyms for whole-wheat bread outside the United States (e.g., the UK) are whole grain bread or wholemeal bread.
While bread can be made from all-purpose wheat flour, a specialty bread flour, containing more protein (12–14%), is recommended for high-quality bread. If one uses a flour with a lower protein content (9–11%) to produce bread, a shorter mixing time is required to develop gluten strength properly.
The company has also published four cookbooks, including the King Arthur 200th Anniversary Cookbook and the King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion, [24] the latter of which was a James Beard Award winner for Cookbook of the Year in 2003. [25] [26] The website also offers recipes, baking demonstrations and advice, online ordering, and virtual ...
Generally speaking, sponge is best used for fancy breads and straight dough for the average bread, for in this manner the advantages of both systems can be best appropriated. [37] Prior to 1920, there were two basic kinds of breads, naturally leavened French bread, [38] and Vienna bread leavened with cereal press yeast, an early form of baker's ...
Salt-rising (or salt-risen) bread is a dense white bread that is traditional in the Appalachian Mountains, leavened by naturally occurring wild bacteria rather than by yeast. [1] [2] [3] Salt-rising bread is made from wheat flour; a starter consisting of either water or milk and corn [4] potatoes, [5] or wheat; and minor ingredients such as ...
A marraqueta (also known by other names) is a bread roll made with wheat flour, salt, water and yeast. This type of roll has a crusty exterior. [1] In Chile, the bread dates to the 1800s and it is considered a national food of Bolivia. It is served for breakfast, lunch, and dinner and is the most common bread found in Bolivia bakeries. [2] [3]