Yeast, key ingredient
- il y a 14 ans
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
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