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A clip sealing a bag of buns displaying a best before date. Biodegradable bread clip in Quebec, Canada. The bread clip was invented by Floyd G. Paxton and manufactured by the Kwik Lok Corporation, based in Yakima, Washington [5] with manufacturing plants in Yakima and New Haven, Indiana. Kwik Lok Corporation's clips are called "Kwik Lok closures".
Some croutons are prepared with the addition of cheese. [3] Nearly any type of bread—in a loaf [1] or pre-sliced, with or without crust—may be used to make croutons. Dry or stale bread [1] or leftover bread is usually used instead of fresh bread. Once prepared, the croutons will remain fresh far longer than unprepared bread.
A loaf of bread baked with Carl Griffith's sourdough starter sits on a board. Carl Griffith's sourdough starter , also known as the Oregon Trail Sourdough or Carl's starter , is a sourdough culture, a colony of wild yeast and bacteria cultivated in a mixture of flour and water for use as leavening . [ 1 ]
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Amish friendship bread is a type of bread or cake made from a sourdough starter that is often shared in a manner similar to a chain letter. [7] The starter is a substitute for baking yeast and can be used to make many kinds of yeast-based breads, shared with friends, or frozen for future use.
Spontaneous sourdough starters take, at a minimum, several days, and are subject to many variables. [3] To make a sourdough starter from scratch, the minimum-needed ingredients are flour, water, and time. This starter is maintained with daily feedings or refreshments of fresh flour and water or, new dough.
In the Encyclopedia of Food Microbiology, Michael Gaenzle writes: "One of the oldest sourdough breads dates from 3700 BCE and was excavated in Switzerland, but the origin of sourdough fermentation likely relates to the origin of agriculture in the Fertile Crescent and Egypt several thousand years earlier", [3] and "Bread production relied on the use of sourdough as a leavening agent for most ...