October 26, 2009 - 11:48am
Yeast Free Breads
Does anyone know how a bread rise without yeast? Is the yeast free bread more healthier? Do you have a recipe and methods of the yeast free bread?
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Does anyone know how a bread rise without yeast? Is the yeast free bread more healthier? Do you have a recipe and methods of the yeast free bread?
If so, then look up sourdough here. There are some excellent entries about starting a starter and making sourdough bread. But if you mean yeast free as in commercial and wild yeast free, then all I could know is quick bread recipes.
What's wrong with yeast?
There are some who must avoid yeast due to health issues.
I avoid making yeast breads because when I make them, they make me sick every time. (I don't have a problem with commercially available breads though, which is odd, considering.)
Yeast free breads would be leavened by chemical methods such as baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) - like Irish soda bread.
They tend to get stale pretty quickly, though - I like them, but nothing beats bread made with a nice, active, bubbly yeast culture, the wilder the better
true yeast free breads are quick breads such as southern corn bread and the not so quick boston brown bread (1 to 2 hour baking time)
The only non-chemically leavened but yeast free bread that I can think of right off hand would be a real salt-rising bread which does not use a yeast fungi to generate the necessary gas. I've read about it, but have never tried it myself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_rising_bread
Sourdough usually doesn't have the same species of yeast in it that is commercial baking yeast, but it's still a sacchromyces species so far as I've read.
.....Alan.