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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, sesame or poppy seeds are also used. Breads come in a lot of variety and they differ from region to region.

Types of Bread

Bread is a food product that has a long history dating back to the neolithic period. The earlier bread versions were made by cooking grain paste, which is a paste made from cereal grains and water. Now the bread is made by steaming, baking or frying the dough.


Gluten Free Bread

Gluten free bread would basically mean bread that does not contain ingredients derived from gluten. The cereals that contain this are wheat, rye, triticale, barley, and oats. Gluten is basically an amorphous protein found in these cereals. Gluten free bread is generally consumed by people who are suffering from coeliac disease and dermatitis herpetiformis.

Homemade Bread

Bread is a all season food that can be served in the cold as well as in the hot. Normally eaten with the hands but occasionally some varieties can also be eaten using a fork. It can be topped with different spreads, dunked or dipped in to a gravy or even eaten by itself.

Bread Makers

A bread machine is known as a bread maker in Australia. It is an electronic appliance used for baking breads at home. It usually consists of a bread pan with a centrally mounted paddle in an oven and comes with a control panel.