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The Crust is the Limit: Bread Blog

Introduction

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The Beginning:

Turns out asking your grandma how to make bread actually pays off. We were assigned this project in our honors biology class, and we immediately started to research.  The project was to make bread, and to find out what ingredient makes the fluffiest, most risen bread.

Background: Cellular Respiration & CO2 Cycle

When making bread you can see cellular respiration in action, but what is cellular respiration? Cellular respiration is the process of the cell turing glucose into a usable energy.  It can be expressed in the chemical equation below:

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Breadalicious

By: Marquita, Lilly, and Emma

Hello!! Are you interested in a scrumptious bread recipe filled with lots of flavor?

Introduction:

My friends and I wanted to test some new recipes, so we decided to delve into some baking. Lilly told me about her grandmother’s legendary whole wheat chocolate chip bread. Then my other friend Emma suggested we make our own bread recipe.

Our steps:

ORANGE CINNAMON BREAD BLOG

Jack Fleming, Davina Ahlawat, Jack Szczuka

Bread Blog

In our biology class, we are making bread. Considering none of us are true “bakers” and have never attempted to make bread from scratch before, we weren’t too sure about how our product would turn out. The main point of this bread lab was for us to better understand how fermentation, photosynthesis and cellular respiration takes place when making bread.

Procedure:

First, in a ziploc baggie mix together ¼ teaspoon yeast, and ¼ cup of flour and, 1 tbsp of sugar and ½ tsp of salt

Chocolate Yeast Bread

Baking Team:

Head Baker - Jess M

Photographer - Adam T

Blog Writer - Ethan K

Science

Cellular Respiration

Preparing for the experiment: Balloon lab

In order to begin to understand the process of how yeast interacts with different amounts of sugar we completed a alcohol fermentation lab. To set up the lab we added different amounts of sugar to each test tube, it was as follows:

BREAD BLOG

• First we added ¼ cup of flour

• We also added a bit of flour to the dough as we were kneading it to make it not stick to our hands as much and so the dough would stick together better

• We then added 4 tablespoons of heated water

• We also added ¼ teaspoon of yeast

• Then we added ½ teaspoon of sugar

• We also added ⅛ teaspoon of salt