Tag - yeast

Kugelhopf cake

Yeast-leavened cakes – Another way to create air

We’ve been making bread for thousands of years, using flour, water and in a lot of cases yeast. Yeast is what makes our breads light and fluffy, by producing carbon dioxide gas bubbles to make the dough rise...

January 3, 2020
10 min read
boudin bakery bakers at work

Famous sourdough bread – Boudin Bakery

Long before instant yeast was on the market, bread bakers had to maintain and keep their own living yeasts to proof their breads. Since yeast are living micro organisms quite some care has to go into these cultures to...

January 3, 2020
5 min read
dried sourdough starter

Storing a sourdough starter for months

Started a sourdough starter for your bread, managed to maintain it for a couple of months, but simply don’t have the time to maintain it the upcoming weeks or months? Maybe you’re going on a trip, or...

May 20, 2018
5 min read
Making Food

Beer fermentation process

Blub, blub, blub, blub. That’s what our huge (25l) vessel of ‘beer-to-be’ sounds like when it’s becoming beer. It’s the gas escaping from the ‘brewing bucket’ through a...

October 22, 2019
6 min read
beer brewing process
Making Food

The beer brewing process – Beer science at home

Brewing beer at home or in little breweries has become a lot more popular over the past few years. And long before that became a rage, monastries all over Europe has their own (small) breweries, some of which still brew...

October 22, 2019
7 min read