Sentences with phrase «yeast as leavening agent»

in Switzerland, but «Bread production relied on the use of sourdough as a leavening agent for most of human history; the use of baker's yeast as a leavening agent dates back less than 150 years.»

It's interesting you use egg whites and yeast as leavening agents, as well as that you incorporate the salt immediately with the yeast.

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Irish soda bread is a quick bread made with baking soda as a leavening agent instead of yeast resulting in a dense savory bread with a texture that is a cross between a scone and a biscuit.

A typical Irish - American St. Patrick's Day dinner wouldn't be complete without a good soda bread, named so because of the use of baking soda (or sodium bicarbonate) as the leavening agent instead of yeast.

This yeast activity is also why one can use milk kefir as a bread - leavening agent much like a sourdough starter.

It was not until the invention of the microscope, followed by the pioneering scientific work of Louis Pasteur in the late 1860's, that yeast was identified as a living organism and the agent responsible for alcoholic fermentation and dough leavening.