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Baking in Biology! Group 5

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So we were told to make bread… Something we have never done before. We found this exciting and fun. First we needed to do some research on how the ingredients worked and how much of each we needed to add. To start, we were given a base recipe that we got to refine to our liking. Then the next day, we tested our recipe, we took a ziploc bag and added ¼ cup of flour, and ¼ teaspoon of yeast and mixed it together. Then we added 4 tablespoons of water to the mixture at 120-130 F. After that we let it rest for 10 mins then added another ¼ cup of flour and mixed that.

Bread Lab

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Lab Roles:

Blog Writer: Rebecca 

Baker/Chemist: Samantha 

Photographer: Anna 

Recipe:

  • 1 1/2 cups of flour
  • 1/2 cup of water
  • 1 1/8 tsp of yeast
  • 1/8 cup of vegetable oil/cooking oil
  • 1/2 tsp of salt
  • 1 tbsp of sugar

Process:

Rolls, Pizza, a Mill, some Rugbrod, and Aged Cocktails (catching up!)

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Hi all!  Here are a few recent(ish) bakes, dating back 3 or 4 months.   Starting with a batch of buttery Lion House rolls – a Holiday staple – and then a first attempt at Rugbrod, a Danish rye bread I’ve been a bit fixated on since we visited Scandinavia this past Summer.  I based the recipe on the formula in the New Nordic Cookbook I got for Christmas, subbing in levain instead of fresh yeast.  The texture was perfect, though the flavor needs some work – it had a couple odd/off notes, which I attribute to the dark beer I used in the recipe – will tweak next time an

Bread lab By Lucy, Isha, and Peyton

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Cellular Respiration

Equation- Glucose + Oxygen= ATP + Carbon Dioxide + Water

Where- Mitochondria

Cellular respiration is important because the yeast helps the bread rise. The yeast undergoes cellular respiration and it starts off by respiring aerobically, which creates carbon dioxide and water.