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Wholemeal bread, and how to improve its quality

Wholemeal bread, and how to improve its quality

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After discussing wholemeal flours in our last entry, today we’ll talk about wholemeal bread, its advantages, and its challenges. Like all our blog posts, I aim for them to be comprehensive but not excessively lengthy. For this reason, I’ll be including some links to more extensive works, in case you want to delve deeper into any of the points. Nutritional aspects Today, the benefits of increased consumption of whole grain products are undeniable. This higher consumption has been linked to…

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Special Rice

Special Rice

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While most of the rice available on the market is white or brown rice of various varieties, there are also other types of rice distinguished by their processing. Let’s talk about them. Parboiled Rice The first of these rice products, and perhaps the most widely marketed worldwide, is parboiled rice, also known as vaporized or precooked rice. The origin of this rice dates back more than 2000 years and became popular in the Indian subcontinent due to its advantages for…

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Cakes. Basic Concepts

Cakes. Basic Concepts

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The term “cake” encompasses a wide variety of products, differing in formulation and preparation, but all based on the creation of a batter with incorporated air, followed by baking. During baking, the batter expands either due to the increased volume of trapped air as the temperature rises or through the action of a leavening agent, and in some cases, yeast. To better understand the final quality of cakes and optimize production methods, we can categorize them into two main groups….

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Popcorn

Popcorn

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You already know that in this blog, we often discuss bakery and baked goods, but from time to time, we allow ourselves to talk about other cereal-based products as well. Popcorn is one of the most consumed snacks in the world. It’s an iconic product in cinemas, and it has also traditionally been made at home. Nowadays, there are also packaged industrial popcorn and microwave-friendly products for home preparation. In this entry, we will analyse how popcorn is made, understand…

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Donuts II

Donuts II

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This entry is a continuation of the first one dedicated to doughnuts and is dedicated to alternative processes to those seen in the first entry. Cake-Style Doughnuts In addition to doughnuts made from fermented dough, there are also doughnuts made from batter, more similar to cake batters. To make the batter, you can start with a formula similar to that of a cake, based on wheat flour, water (around 70% of the flour weight), sugar (40-45% based on flour), fat…

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Donuts

Donuts

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In this blog entry, we will delve into what is perhaps the most famous fried dough in the world, donuts. Additionally, we will take the opportunity to discuss some other fried preparations typical of our culture. As we mentioned when discussing churros, another fried dough, frying involves an exchange of water, which leaves the dough, for oil, which enters it. Furthermore, high-temperature heat treatment occurs rapidly during frying, achieving changes similar to those that would occur during baking, such as…

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