Task1.
Select one type of bread from the wikipedia site Bread.
Research and report on how this type of bread is made and what is the cultural or religious significance of this bread?
Sourdough
· Sourdough is a bread product made by a long fermentation of dough using naturally occurring lactobacilli and yeasts.
· Sourdough breads are made with a sourdough starter (which differs from starters made with baker's yeast).
· Some bakers have starters that are several generations old, which some people think have a special taste and texture.
· At one time, all yeast-leavened breads were sourdoughs
· The peasant family (usually the woman was in charge of bread making) would bake on a fixed schedule, perhaps once a week.
· The starter was saved from the previous week's dough. The starter was mixed with the new ingredients, and the dough was left to rise, and then a piece of it was saved (to be the starter for next week's bread).
· Peasants would mark their loaves with their family signs before taking it to the communal oven to be baked.
· Sourdough is a bread product made by a long fermentation of dough using naturally occurring lactobacilli and yeasts.
· Sourdough breads are made with a sourdough starter (which differs from starters made with baker's yeast).
· Some bakers have starters that are several generations old, which some people think have a special taste and texture.
· At one time, all yeast-leavened breads were sourdoughs
· The peasant family (usually the woman was in charge of bread making) would bake on a fixed schedule, perhaps once a week.
· The starter was saved from the previous week's dough. The starter was mixed with the new ingredients, and the dough was left to rise, and then a piece of it was saved (to be the starter for next week's bread).
· Peasants would mark their loaves with their family signs before taking it to the communal oven to be baked.