Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Raku Raku Pan Da the "World's first automatic bread-making machine" Although bread machines for mass production had been previously made for industrial use, the first self-contained breadmaker for household use was released in Japan in 1986 by the Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. (now Panasonic) based on research by project engineers and software developer Ikuko Tanaka, who trained with the ...
Cornell bread was invented in the United States during the 1930s by Clive McCay, a professor at Cornell University, [1] [2] [3] as an inexpensive alternative to strictly rationed foods. [4] Adding powdered milk and soy flour to bread increases its protein content , [ 2 ] and restoring the germ to refined white flour results in higher levels of ...
A dough conditioner, flour treatment agent, improving agent or bread improver is any ingredient or chemical added to bread dough to strengthen its texture or otherwise improve it in some way. Dough conditioners may include enzymes , yeast nutrients, mineral salts, oxidants and reductants , bleaching agents and emulsifiers . [ 1 ]
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.
The Chopin Alveograph is a tool for flour quality measurement. [1] It measures the flexibility of the dough produced from the flour, by inflating a bubble in a thin sheet of the dough until it bursts. The resulting values show the strength of the flour, and thus its suitability for different uses.
The Incredible Bread Machine is a text of political commentary written by R.W. Grant in 1966, which discussed free market enterprise and Capitalism. The book had an accompanying fictional poem entitled "Tom Smith And His Incredible Bread Machine." The poem is about Tom Smith, the inventor of a machine that produces bread very cheaply.