Yeast breads Flashcards
5 key ingredients yeast bread
- flour
- water
- salt
- yeast
- optional ingredients: shortening/fat, milk- or other liquid, sugar, eggs
3 categories of leaveners
- chemical (bakin soda, bakin powder)
- physical/mechanical
- air (egg whites, creaming sugar + butter…)
- steam (liquids, eggs) - biological (yeast, bacteria)
yeast: what is produce + 3 basic functions
- produce zymase, and enzyme that ferment sugars:
glucose = ethanol+ CO2+ other by-product (which are flavor compunds + help develop the dough) - 3 basic functions:
1. CO2 leavens the dough
2. variety of by products contribute to bread flavor
3. fermentation process develops the dough
what is saccharomyces cerevisiae + 3 qualities that are important for baking
- baker’s yeast used in breadmaking
- 3 good qualities:
1. good CO2 production
2. development of desirable flavour
3. adequate keeping qualities
3 types of yeast you can buy
- compressed yeast: fresh, requires refrigeration unless it is frozen (very perishable)
- active dry yeast (dehydrated, rehydrated in water at 43-46degree :
- high temp= inactivated
- low temp= leaching of cells into liquid, which soften bread dough (gluthaonine is leaked) - instant yeast: added directly to dry ingredients
3 things to consider when you do yeast bread (yeast activity)
- sugar, moisture and temperature
1. temperature
optimal temperature for dough fermentation : 30-35 degree
2. sugar - high osmotic pressure (too much salt/sugar) inhibits the activity (because it keeps the water out and you need to rehydrate the yeast)
- must have enough food (sugar) to permit growth of microorganisms
3. moisture
hydration activates dormant yeast - pH sligtly acidic (4-6) is optimal
reaction to produce yeast (substrate, enzymes)
- sucrose, starch = glucose = ethanol + CO2 (so yeast needs glucose)
- subsrate (sucrose, starch)
- added to the dough (sucrose)
- naturally in flour (1-2% sucrose; starch) - enzymes hydrolyse longer chains
- flour amylase
- a-amylase catalyzes: starch = random , smaller pieces
- b-amylase catalyzes: starch= maltose - yeast
- maltase catalyzes: maltose= glucose+ glucose
- invertase catalyze: sucrose= glucose + fructose
* * there are a multide of enzymes in yeast: the smaller are the carbohydrates, the bigger will be the flavour
role of sugar + 3 consequences of larger amount
- small amount added (less than 8% of weight of flour):
provide a readily available substrate for immediate gas production by yeast - larger amount:
1. inhibits yeast activity
2. tenderized by interfering with gluten development (because gluten needs water so sugar will compete with it)
3. browning due to Maillard reaction
what wheat flour provides
it provides the proteins (glutenin and gliadin) from which gluten is developped during hydration and mixing
* hat gives that nice structure, does not crumble.. gluten has a lot of great things for that
flour: what is it, sources (7) and non-cereal sources (7)
- fine powder derived from endosperm of seeds or from other starchy food
- main source = wheat, but also come from oat, rye, barley, rice, corn, triticale (wheat and rye hybrid)
- non-cereal sources: potato, soy, chickpea, taro, cattail,arrowroot, coconut
** basis for all bakek good like yeast and quick breads
7 types of wheat flours
- Whole wheat *bran, germ, endosperm
- White (endosperm only)
- Gluten flour (milled in a way to retain gluten)
- All-purpose (gluten potential= in between cake and bread)
- Bread flour (high gluten)
- Pastry and cake (lower protein)
- Durum (semolina= high in proteins but not that much in glucose)
proteins in flours: 5 solubles, one insoluble in wheat
- Insoluble proteins in wheat: Gliadin and glutenin - Soluble flour proteins (in dilute salt solutions) 1. Albumins 2. Globulins 3. Glycoproteins 4. Nucleoproteins 5. Lipid-protein complexes 6. Enzymes: amylases and proteases
** quantity and quality of proteins in flour affect baking quality
3 types of flour with 0% gluten potential + order of flour with less to the most gluten potential
- rice, quinoa, buckwheat (0%)
- barley (3-4%)
- rye (6%)
- cake flour (6-8%)
- pastry flour (7-9%)
- the most: all type of wheat flours and alsor bread, yeast flour)
characteristics of gliadin (3) and glutenin (5) which represent 85% of the wheat flour protein
- gliadin:
1. Hydropholic, single spherical polypeptide chains
2. Fold onto themselves, bonding weakly with each other
3. Fluid and sticky
glutenin:
- Hydrophobic, longer than gliadin
- Largest component of gluten complex
- Bond more strongly with each other
- Form strong S-S bonds at the end of teh chains
- Contributes to elastic properties of flour dough
gluten controls what + forms what
- it control the rheological (flow) properties of dough: elasticity and plasticity (stability)
- it forms a continuous, 3-dimensional network of hydrated proteins in which starch granules are embedded
2 steps of gluten formation
** need moisture and manipuation
- Hydration
- Distributes air bubbles
- Gliadin and glutenin absorb 2x their weight in water and become gluten
- Other proteins (albumin and globulin) become main part of dough
- Result- a complex of gluten with water in the spaces - Kneading (it will unfolds and align the long initially gluten molecules crosslinked by S-S. Shhets of gluten gives dough a smooth fine texture)
- Used extensively in bread making
- Working dough into elastic mass by pushing, streching, folding
- Expand gluten strands
- Distributes yeast
- Warms doughs; increases fermentation
Helps distribution of CO2
** can replace the step of kneading only by letting the dough rests
what do sugar and fat to gluten
- sugar: binds water- prevent gluten formation
- fats coat gluten molecules; prevents clumping
what happens to the dough when we put under cold water
water soluble proteins and starch freed: only gluten remains
cake has less gluten then all-purpose and then bread
gluten = ?
and 4 cereal prolamins toxic in ciliac disease
- gluten = general name given to the storage proteins (prolamins or peptide fractions) present in wheat, rye or barley
- cereal prolamins toxic in CD:
1. gliadin in wheat
2. secalin in rye
3. hordein in barley
4. (avenin in oats?)
7 points between gluten and ciliac disease (symptoms, risks,..)
- Immune system reaction to gluten
- Affects GI tracts- malabsorption
- Genetic transmission
- Estimated prevalence in Canada: 1:133
- Symptoms: abdominal bloating, diarrhea, fatigue, weigh loss..
- Non-gluten forming grains include: millet, teff and rice
- Oats apperas to be safe but use limited by potential contamination with gluten
7 gluten substitutes
- Xantham gum (Polysaccharide very common: stabilizers, prevent ingredients from separating
Helps to give the dough stickiness to help trap CO2, it comes from a strain bacteria)- Guar gym (seed of a plant, create a gel-like structure to trap CO2)
- Psyllium seed husk
- Chia seeds (high in soluble fibers)
- Flax seed meal
- Gelatin
- Agar agar
4 characteristics starch
- Strengthens through gelatinization
- Dextrins contribute to colour ans sweetness
- Contributes to crumb
- Texture of baked products interior
1. FINE= small, densely packed air cells- COARSE= large, irregular holes
liquid (milk = most popular) its role
- Liquid in bread is necessary to hydrate proteins and starch and for gluten development
- Milk most common liquid used in breadmaking:
1. Adds nutrients
2. Gives a finer texture
3. Improves crust and crum color and flavor
4. Whey softens the dough and decrease volume, therefore molk must be heated before using to denature whey pro
- Milk most common liquid used in breadmaking:
role of salt
- Small amount (less than 2% of weight of flour)
Roles:- Improves taste of bread
- Stabilizes yeast fermentation (slows its activity)
- Changes rheological properties of the dough
- Has a firming effect on gluten:
- Increases water holding capacity of dough
- Cl ions help gluten proteins stick together