Bread and the technology of bread production

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Bread is made from wheat flour, water, yeast and salt : with these four "simple" raw materials we succeed in making many thousands of different types of bread. Apart from the quality of the raw materials, the process itself has an enormous influence on the final quality of the bread.

1. The raw materials

1.1. Wheat flour

1.2. Water

1.3. Yeast and sourdough

1.4. Other raw materials

2. The technology

We will limit us to the 3 most important phases of the production process. Finally we will take a look at the freezing of dough and parbaked bread.

2.1. Mixing

2.2. Moulding, make-up and proofing

2.3. Baking

2.4. Cooling & Freezing

3. Quality, recipies and other interesting aspects of bread

3.1. What is quality ?

3.2. Recipies from all over the world

3.3. Staling of bread

3.4. The nutritional value of bread

3.5. The microbiological shelflife of bread

3.6. The history of bread

3.7. Allergy and intolerance for bread

4. Specialities

4.1. Danish and puff pastry

5. Famous bakers

5.1. Frank Lateur

5.2. The baker of Eecklo


List of recent up-dates.

The English version of my website is not completed as yet. However to give you a summary, you can click the following icons and you will get a presentation which will show you the most important highlights of my Dutch website. The first presentation is about the bread processes in general, the second one is about quality.

technology presentation

 quality presentation


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