Bread is a kind of food made of rye, wheat and other grain crops as basic raw materials, ground into powder, mixed with water, salt and yeast to make dough blank, and then heated by baking, baking, steaming or frying.
Baked food is made of wheat flour as the main raw material, yeast, eggs, oil and nuts as the auxiliary materials, mixed with water to make dough, and processed by fermentation, shaping, molding, baking and cooling.
Usually, when we talk about bread, most people think of European and American bread or Japanese bread with sweet bread stuffing. In fact, according to the above definition, bread is a broader food, and there are many special kinds of bread in the world.
In addition to rye flour and wheat flour, buckwheat flour, brown rice flour and corn flour are widely used to make bread in the world. Some breads are fermented by Angel Yeast and become more fluffy and soft during baking. On the contrary, there are many breads that do not need to be fermented. Although the raw materials and manufacturing techniques are different, they are all called bread.
Nutritional value:
Bread contains protein, fat, carbohydrates, a small amount of vitamins and minerals such as calcium, potassium, magnesium and zinc. It has various tastes, is easy to digest and absorb, is convenient to eat, and is very popular in daily life.
Now, cereal bread and whole wheat bread are very popular. Cereal bread is made of a large number of grains and nuts, and is rich in dietary fiber, unsaturated fatty acids and minerals, which helps to improve metabolism and is beneficial to health. Whole wheat bread is rich in dietary fiber, which makes people feel full quickly and indirectly reduces their intake. For the same bread, eating whole wheat bread is more helpful to lose weight than eating white bread. Bread is soft and easy to digest, and will not cause harm to the gastrointestinal tract.
Customs and habits:
The ancient Egyptians and Babylonians invented bread. At first, flour, water and salt were made into bread, but the dough was dry and hard because it was not fermented. Later, the Egyptians inadvertently put the mixed dough in the sun, and the dough fermented itself after being heated. At this time, the dough is baked on the fire, and the bread becomes soft and delicious.
Later, Egyptian bread natural fermentation technology was introduced to Greece and Rome. In the 5th century BC, professional bread workshops appeared in some European cities. /kloc-the bread oven came out in Europe in the 0/4th century, which greatly reduced the labor intensity of making bread. /kloc-In the 7th century, Dutch Ray Hu Wen discovered yeast again. Since then, the method of making bread fermented by yeast has become popular in Europe. /kloc-since the 0/8th century, with the appearance of machines and electricity, bread production has entered the industrial era of mechanization and automation.
Bread can be divided into salty bread and sweet bread according to taste, staple bread and snack bread according to use, long bread, round bread, rectangular bread, stick bread and flower bread according to shape, whole wheat bread, rye bread, potato bread and cottonseed protein bread according to raw materials, milk bread, jam bread, vitamin, glucose bread and meat bread according to additives, but traditionally people mainly divide bread into soft bread and hard bread according to baking methods.
When making soft bread, the fermented dough should be put into a baking tray with a certain shape and then baked in the oven. When making hard bread, there is no need to bake, just put the bread blank kneaded into a certain shape directly on the baking tray and then bake it in the oven.
In recent years, with the strengthening of people's health awareness, many new faces have appeared in the bread family, such as soybean bread, vegetable bread, mushroom bread and student lunch bread.
In the west, bread is called "the mother of food". In order to make bread delicious, beautiful and nutritious, people think hard about the shape of bread, deliberately add various things to bread or try to change the stuffing of bread, but in the end they can't get rid of the true color of bread. Besides, sandwiches, hamburgers and hot dogs are popular nowadays. Also comes from bread.
Suggestion:
1. You'd better put the bread for two hours before eating. Freshness is the basic element of good bread. The freshly baked bread smells delicious, and it tastes like cream. The taste of bread itself can only be tasted after it is completely cooled.
2. Some cheese, cream and butter used for bread in the market are high in saturated fat and should not be eaten more. Some breads contain high calories, because salt, sugar and edible fat are added in the process of making.
3. When the temperature is high, it is soft and delicious; when the temperature is low, it will harden, and the flavor and taste will be much worse.