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Baking bread from scratch is something I thoroughly enjoy doing. Seeing your dough evolve into a real bread and eating that freshly baked bread, yum!
Bread, whether it’s a flatbread, or a specific ingredient, is a recurring topic here on FoodCrumbles.com, there’s a lot to write about it. Below you can find all our posts related to bread, but if you’re looking for a more structured way to find what you’re looking for, use the mindmap below!
Have you ever thought about how major historical events relied on seemingly small inventions? Napoleon has Nicolas Appert to thank for his invention of canning. The US would have had a harder time in World War II without the invention…
Most flatbreads are daily staple foods. They’re easy and quick to make, often without the need for an oven. This of an Indian chapati or a Greek pita bread. But just like you can make complicated breads such as croissants…
Before I even started watching the Great British Bake Off (and got hooked quite quickly) I got a cookbook from one of the participants of this great British baking tv-show. Someone who had discovered the magic of the Great British…
If you read this title and are wondering why on earth people would eat a biscuit with gravy, you’re probably not from the South of the USA. You probably prefer eating your biscuit with a cup of tea. Even though…
If you’ve ever moved between countries or went to a specialized (online) baking store, you might have experienced it: flour analysis paralysis. There are so many different types of flour out there that it’s hard to decide which one you…
This is a guest post by Morgan Walker Clarke. Morgan is from Dallas, Texas, works in the hospitality industry and has an interest for food and science that he loves to share with us! Using enzymes in baking is not…
Bread can be as easy or as complicated as you want it to be. You can make a perfectly fine loaf from just flour, water, salt and yeast, shaped into a nice simple boule (or not shaped at all and…
Have you tried making a nice round bread, only to end up with a flat, deflated disk? It just wouldn’t hold its shape, despite your care. There are several reasons as to why this might have happened: you might not…
If you’ve been with us for a while, you might have noticed by now that one of our passions is bread and bread making. It is something we can do every week (or day) since bread is definitely one of…
Baking bread is one of my favorite things to do in the kitchen since it’s a great way to experiment new recipes and involves plenty science and ingredients understanding. And the good thing is, we eat bread every day, but…
If you’ve ever eaten corn tortillas you will know that they behave and taste very different than flour tortillas. The texture is different, it breaks rather than tears but also their shelf life is shorter and the have a very…
Learning how to bake bread is not something you finish within a few days. Instead, the more you do it, the more you realize there still is so much to learn, which, being a scientist by training, is exactly why…