Take a look. This is exactly what a wheat field looks like . Ripe ears are harvested, the grain is ground into flour, from which everyone’s favorite bread is baked. But in order to make a golden loaf with crisp from the seeds, you need to spend a lot of time and effort.
An old joke about the fact that bread grows in a bakery is taken from life. Yes, yes, many do not even suspect what a difficult path the spikelet plucked in the field goes to become a fragrant roll.
We have been teaching since childhood
Culture has been formed since childhood. Including a culture of behavior. From the set of knowledge and experience received by the child from an early age, his attitude to others and to himself in the future depends. Handling bread, respect for other people's work is well brought up by examples. Production tours are very popular today. Going to a bakery and hearing a story about how bread is made will be very useful for children.
After all, they will have the opportunity to see with their own eyes the whole process of preparing and baking bread. It is a pity that many children do not know what bread is made of, how hard and at the same time important work is.
Old customs
Bread has long been considered the basis of life, a symbol of fertility and prosperity. Cow we meet dear guests, bless the newlyweds. And when a person goes on his last journey, at a commemoration in memory of him put a glass with a piece of bread. And then what to do with bread and vodka? Few people know, but there should be water in a glass. It is with it that all the sins of earthly life are washed away. It cannot be drunk, but bread is eaten. After 40 days, water is poured into a place where no one ever walks, and crumble bread and give it to the birds. Such dishes are no longer used on the farm, but are assigned to the cemetery, to the one for whom it was intended. It is customary for the grapes to leave a glass of bread on the grave. Allegedly, this is for a traveler who will pass by, sit down and remember the departed. The custom is ancient, and young people, unfortunately, know little of the history of their ancestors.
What bread is made of
The basis of bread is flour. It is obtained from wheat and other cereals. White bread is baked from wheat flour , black and gray from rye flour. Salt, sugar, milk powder, fats and other components according to the recipe are also added to future bread. It can be bran, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, seaweed, raisins, beets, carrots and much more. Such supplements are natural and contain vitamins, minerals, fiber, useful for the body.
Yeast is used in bread production. Now opinions about their effects on the human body are divided. Many refuse them and use yeast-free bread as an alternative. It is no less tasty and absorbed much easier. But this is not the only problem. To accelerate the fermentation of yeast mushrooms, improve taste and achieve a high cap and crisp in a very short time, manufacturers often add artificial baking powder, flavorings, preservatives. Therefore, before buying, you should pay attention to the composition of the product, where an approximate list of the ingredients used is indicated, and choose what is more or less useful. Now you know what bread is made of.
What is the use of gray and black bread?
Are you interested in knowing what black and gray bread is made of? Like white, it is baked from flour. But they use a mixture of wheat and rye. The color of a baked loaf depends on the amount of rye flour. For example, gray contains approximately the same proportion, but in black wheat flour is much less, about three times.
Unlike white, rye bread contains not yeast, but leaven. This contributes to the natural loosening of the dough in an acidic environment. Such a product is healthier due to the content of vitamins, minerals, amino acids. It is approved for use by nutritionists, as it improves metabolism and has a beneficial effect on the whole body. It is useful to use it for patients with diabetes mellitus, with various disorders of the endocrine system, with excess weight.
Due to the increased acidity, which is detrimental to various bacteria, such bread is stored longer, up to 10-12 days.
Contraindications
But despite the mass of useful properties, there is a category of people who eat black and gray bread is contraindicated. It is absorbed much more slowly and increases the acidity of the stomach. Therefore, with diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, inflammation of the intestines, heartburn, diseases of the liver and gall bladder, it is categorically impossible. It is better to replace it with crackers from white bread, preferably yeast-free.
Yeast-free sourdough
Now it is very popular to use bread machines in everyday life. Everything is quite simple: I read the instructions, prepared the ingredients from which bread is made, fell asleep in the oven - and a delicious piece of bread for the whole family is ready.
But often in the recipe yeast is required. Therefore, we will prepare our own yeast-free yeast from rye flour. Such bread is very tasty, healthy and, most importantly, without harmful chemicals and preservatives. Sourdough can be used immediately, and can be stored for up to two weeks in the refrigerator or for almost a year in dry form.
Ingredients
What is needed:
- rye flour - 400 g;
- water - 430 g (it should not be too hot or cold, otherwise the sourdough will not work. So we take warm);
- fermentation tank. You can take a regular glass jar.
How to make sourdough for bread
On the first day, mix in a glass dish one hundred grams of flour and 130 grams of warm water. In appearance, the leaven is obtained as a dough for pancakes. Cover with gauze or a lid with openings so that air escapes, and leave for a day in a warm place. After a day, we “feed” the leaven: stir it well and add one hundred grams of flour and water. Mix thoroughly, cover and put again in a warm place for another day. We repeat the same procedure on the third and fourth day. On the fifth day, the leaven is ready, and homemade bread can be baked from it.
Do not be alarmed if a starter has a specific smell. This is normal, she did not go bad. Before making bread in the oven, a small part of the leaven should be put aside in a glass jar. About 2-3 tablespoons. Is it a starter or the basis for subsequent starter cultures and ruddy baking. We store it in the refrigerator for 10-14 days. Alternatively, it can be dried. Spread a thin layer of it on baking paper, wait until it dries, and pour it into a paper bag. You can store at room temperature for a year.
We bake yeast-free bread ourselves
Everyone has heard about the benefits of bread without the use of yeast. It is much more beneficial for the body, easy to digest and does not cause fermentation and other troubles. Today we will try in practice how to make bread without yeast. For baking, we use rye flour, which will only add to it useful qualities. And most importantly, the recipe is very simple and cooks quickly. You will need:
- 0.5 kg of rye flour;
- 2 tsp salt;
- one and a half glasses of water;
- lubricating oil.
Dilute the salt in warm water, pour the flour in small portions and knead the dough. Before baking, let it stand for a while until a light crust appears. Then put in a refractory bowl.
Normal clay with thin walls is also suitable. We prick with a fork in several places, moisten with water, sprinkle with flour and bake until a crust appears. We hope that the finished loaf will turn out weighing a little more than 0.5 kg, otherwise the dough will bake poorly. Such bread is eaten very quickly. Well, if there is little left, excellent crackers are made from it.
How to make bread crumbs in the oven
Delicious and crispy crackers are easy to make at home. They are good for soup, beer or as a supplement to salad.
First, try the wheat recipe. Take a half of a white loaf, cut the crust and cut the flesh into small squares, about 1-1.5 centimeters. In a separate bowl, mix chopped garlic, dried paprika, rosemary, a little thyme, salt to taste.
Before making bread crumbs, pour the mixture into a bag. It is convenient to use plastic with a fastener. Now add the crackers, close tightly and shake well. The loaf should be well saturated with the aromatic mixture. Preheat the oven to 120 degrees, put on a baking sheet and send for 10 minutes to the upper level.
Beer rye crackers
Now we will show how to make croutons in the oven from Borodinsky bread. They are spicy, moderately salty and suitable as a snack for beer. Great idea for a weekend with friends. Prepare:
- 0.5 kg of rye bread;
- A glass of tomato juice;
- a couple of teaspoons adjika seasoning;
- 5 cloves of garlic;
- sugar - a quarter of a teaspoon;
- three pinches of salt.
First, prepare the impregnation for future crackers. Mix tomato juice, adjika, garlic and sugar with salt in a glass and beat with a blender until smooth for a minute. Pour into a bowl and set aside for a while. We turn to the bread. We use Borodinsky, but this is not important. You can take any other rye bread. We cut it into slices of the same thickness. In our case, about 1 cm. Take a sharp impregnation and coat each piece of bread on both sides. It is convenient to do this with a silicone brush. It distributes the liquid evenly over the entire surface of the bread. We expect so that the entire coating should be enough for the whole loaf. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Grease a baking sheet with vegetable oil. Although you can use baking paper - it is quite simple to spread it. We spread all the slices, add and bake at the very top of 10-15 minutes. As you can see, during this time the bread does not have time to dry properly, only a light crust is formed. We take it out of the oven and cut it into long strips. It is convenient to dip crackers of this form in sauce and hold in your hand. We return the bread straws back to the baking sheet. We spread them with the impregnated side on a baking sheet so that they do not burn out due to tomato grease, and again send them to the oven for about half an hour. We bake also at the highest level at a temperature of 180 degrees. Then turn off the heat and leave the crackers to cool. They must still come. We get them when they cool. They turn out crispy, moderately salty and with a slight sharpness. Great idea for a beer.
Of course, bread is one of the most consumed foods. It differs in appearance, price and taste. And despite the differences in views, each of us will always find something different or come up with a new recipe.