The one common thing that makes a good burger, delicious pizza, a wonderful focaccia, a mouth melting butter toasted sweet bun, is the bread. For a bread baker, it is quite important to bake a perfect loaf of bread.

Therefore, in this edition we will traverse through the territory of bread baking, bread making ingredients and healthy bread baking recipes.

Are Breads Supposed to be Baked in a Particular Way?

There is no ideal way of baking bread as such. Every region has its own taste and preference and so we have so many variations of any type of bread.

A pizza with 50 % Hydration and pizza with 75% hydration are Pizza. Both are perfect and ideal in their own sense. One is baked in a span of 3 hrs and other takes 24 hours before it could be baked.

Are there Good Bread Recipes? – Both a Myth and Truth

It is true that a good bread recipe makes good bread.If you trust our words most of the recipes are good. However one must understand the delicate ratios of ingredients, the principles and law of the ingredients, right technique and timings and the reason behind it. These are the crucial part of baking an exquisite bread loaf.

Baking demands too much precision in weighing the ingredients and the word for that is “BAKER’S PERCENTAGE”. When you understand the baker’s percentage and the nature of ingredients, just play with them as you like. You can craft breads in different textures, sizes, and aroma and so on.

While baking bread and any other food, one must respect the science and art behind it. The physical expansion during proofing and baking, the chemical reaction going in the dough and the role of micro organisms (Yeast and Bacteria) are simply the physics, Chemistry and Biology. And having done that one must patiently craft a beautiful loaf which is no less than an art.

What are the absolute Basic Ingredients of Bread making?

All breads have four basic ingredients:

Flour
Water
Yeast
Salt.

When added with gluten, improver, sugar, preferment and oil, the bread reaches to its epitome.

Health Implications of Consuming Bread – Is it the Right Choice?

Our grandparents and parents are the staunch believers of the fact that breads (All Purpose Flour/Maida) are detrimental for digestive system. Its consumption worsens the gut health. On the contrary, dieticians recommend consumption of highly fermented bread such as Sour Dough Bread, French Baguette, multigrain breads, rustic ciabatta breads; focaccia bread because it does not involves the use of pure maida.

A sandwich which has a base of bread when stuffed with patties, green vegetables like spinach, arugula, lettuce and olives makes a satiating platter to kick-start an energetic healthy day.

Garnish your aromatic bread sandwich with oregano, thyme, rosemary, parsley to please your taste buds. Toss them with butter, olive oil, and layer it with cheese, and sauces to enjoy a lip-smacking first meal of the day.

Warm the sandwich on pans, induction or microwave to savour that extra crunchiness in your mouth.

Scope of Breads in Bakery & Cafe

The world of Breads and bakery is barely been explored in India. Our cultural diversity is so rich that we are not yet done with our Indianized flattened breads when compared to the global modus Vivendi and food habits. Making a brave move into integrated bread baking can elevate our level to a cosmopolitan lifestyle in this globalised and liberalised world.

So let’s dive deep in the world of Breads, a field of bakery that is barely explored in India. With so much cultural mix across the globe in terms of thoughts and lifestyle, the food habit cannot be kept in isolation.

How can Delhi Bakery School help you explore Bread Baking?

Delhi Bakery School conducts 1 month (180 Hours Plus) Bread Master Course covering 25 plus different breads styles and types. Students get practical hands on training to come up with an ideal piece of bread. Delhi Bakery School will slowly transcend your skills from basic to intermediate to advance levels of perfection in the world of bread baking recipes.