Quick Breads Ingredients and Their Functions

1. Quick BreadsIngredients and Their Functions (also known as Sweet Breads) Nutrition and Foods 2011

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3. Two Types of Leavening Agents • Produces gas (carbon dioxide) which causes basic dry ingredients, when moistened, to become light and porous • Chemical • Baking Powder (double acting) • Soda (bicarbonate) • Cream of tartar • Example: Quick Bread • Natural • Fermentation (yeast bread) • Steam (pastry, baked potato, popcorn • Air (egg, by beating or whipping, or sponge cake)

4. Leavening Agents Baking Powder Baking Soda 4 times as strong as baking powder. Used in baking to neutralize some of the acidity found in certain ingredients Used with fillings or sugar syrups or other acid ingredients • Most common leavening agent for quick breads • When mixed with liquid in the batter a reaction is caused which begins to release carbon dioxide gas. • When the batter is then heated the remaining carbon dioxide is released and the “Double-Acting” baking powder reaction is finished.

5. Quick breads • Quick breads are flour mixtures that can be made easily. They are breads in which baking powder or baking soda is used as a leavening agent. Quick breads are grouped according to their batter. • What are some quick breads that you can think of? • Waffles • Pancakes • Popovers • Muffins • Biscuits • Coffee Cakes • Scones • Corn Bread • Hush Puppies

6. Types of Quick breads • Pour Batter: Batter is so thin it can be poured. It is usually contains the same amount of liquid and flour • Waffles & Pancakes • Drop Batter: So thick it is too hard to pour, but too sticky to handle • Muffins & Coffee Cakes • Soft Dough: Batter is stiff enough that it can be handled and rolled into shapes • Biscuits & Doughnuts

7. Methods for Mixing • Biscuit: this method is done by cutting fat into the flour, then adding the liquid and kneading for a short time to develop soft dough. • Muffin: this method is done by combining all the dry ingredients and all the wet ingredients separately and then mixing them together.

8. Eggs • Leavening/color/flavor/shortening • Firmness/structure/composition • Emulsifying • Other Uses: Baked goods, mayonnaise

9. Flour • Starch/structure to baked products • Contains the proteins which combine chemically when moistened to form gluten • Uses: Yeast breads, quick breads, pie, cakes, cookies sauces, gravies

10. Sugar • Browns the crust • Tenderizer • Flavor • Uses: Baking, confections, candies

11. Fats (lipids) • Tenderizer • Enhances the keeping quality of quick breads • Cholesterol • Uses: Pastry, short cakes, cookies, quick breads

12. Liquid • Moisturizer necessary for chemical leavening reaction to take place • Combines with the flour to form gluten • Provides the moisture necessary to combine ingredients • Usually milk or water

13. Salt • In quick bread salt enhances sweetness • In other products, salt may be for flavoring or a preservative (soups, jerky)

14. Tunneling • Too much mixing can cause the incorporation of air making “tunnels” in the bread.