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Bread is generally made by baking, steaming or frying dough. The core ingredients of bread are flour, water, salt, and leavening agent such as yeast. For the flavouring and decoration of bread ingredients such as bananas, raisins, pumpkins, onion, zucchini, and nuts and seeds such as caraway, protein, sesame or poppy seeds are also used. Breads come in a lot of variety and they differ from region to region.

Bread tastes the best when it is fresh. The retention of the freshness of the bread is essential so that it can be relished. Now days bread is either wrapped in a plastic film or paper. To keep it fresh for a longer time, bread can also be stored in a special container called as the breadbox. If the bread is kept in warm temperature, then it's more prone to the growth of mould on it. However, when refrigerated, the bread becomes stale more quickly but there is no room for the mould to grow.

Making Bread...

Making bread is not simple as it seems. The main ingredient in all types of bread is the flour. The amount of flour needed for a particular type of bread depends on the quality of the flour. While kneading some flours, the texture of the dough becomes more satin-like and rises more when it's being baked. For yeast breads, quick breads and cakes, all-purpose flour is used, which is a mixture of soft and hard wheat flours. Bread flour is very nutritious as it is high in protein content and gives the bread better volume. But it requires more kneading than all-purpose flour for the smooth texture. If you like the nutty taste, then whole-wheat flour is the best bet. Whole-wheat flour is made up of complete wheat kernel. Now days a new variety of quick rising yeast is used, which makes the bread rise in almost half the time. In Sydney people like to cook a nice fresh loaf of bread and sit at a table with some nice fresh Sydney flowers to dine.

Different types of bread...

-White bread is made from the flour that contains only the central core of the grain that is called as endosperm.
-Brown bread is very healthy and is made up of 10% bran and endosperm.
-Wholemeal bread's main ingredient is the whole of the wheatgrain that is the endosperm and bran.
-Wheatgerm bread is added with wheatgerm for the flavouring.
-Wholegrain bread is basically white bread with wholegrains added to it so as to increase the fibre content.
-Granary bread is made from granary flour that contains malted brown or white flour, wholegrains and wheatgerm.
-Stottie cakes are round, thick and flat loaves. They are very popular in the North East of England. Though they are known as cakes, they are actually types of bread.

Types of Bread
Go through this page and learn the meaning of sourdough, wholemeal, brown bread, gluten free and many more. All the types of bread are available at bakeries located at a place near you.

Gluten Free Bread
Scour this page for information on gluten free bread and its recipes.

Homemade Bread
Always wondered if you can make bread at home. Now try making banana bread, butter bread and many more by going through the bread recipes on this page.

Bread Makers
Go trough this page and learn about the various types of bread makers in Australia.