Not exact matches
With all - purpose flour,
bread and rolls often turn out flat and more dense because the
dough is not strong enough to «
trap» the leavening being produced by the yeast.
No doubt you will be most familiar with those
trapped bubbles of air in
bread, this causes the
dough to swell and to rise which helps to form the characteristic light and open texture once it has been baked.
It strongly binds the ingredients in the
bread dough together, which causes them to be
trapped, gluten also stretches around the
trapped bubbles of air which is produced by yeast.
When xanthan gum is added in small amounts to gluten - free flour, it tends to give gluten - free
bread dough that amazing ability to actually
trap and support the large bubbles produced by the yeast you add.