What Makes Sourdough Bread Sour?
With sandwiches and toast, sourdough bread always adds an extra accented flavor to your meals. But where does the signature tartness come from? Hosted by: Michael Aranda ---------- Support...
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When we think of sourdough bread, lots of us think San Francisco, or maybe Alaska. But the history of these tangy loaves goes further back than the California Gold Rush. We think ancient Egyptians were eating sourdough too, making it the oldest leavened bread – or, bread that has something in it to make the dough rise. For sourdough, that “something” is a mix of wild yeast and bacteria, which break down sugars and make chemicals that give the bread its chewy, sour taste. Generally speaking, bakers make bread dough rise using yeast, but the source of the yeast is what makes sourdough special. Nowadays, you can buy little foil packages with Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast – a species that we use in baking and brewing. But before grocery stores, people h...
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When we think of sourdough bread, lots of us think San Francisco, or maybe Alaska. But the history of these tangy loaves goes further back than the California Gold Rush. We think ancient Egyptians were eating sourdough too, making it the oldest leavened bread – or, bread that has something in it to make the dough rise. For sourdough, that “something” is a mix of wild yeast and bacteria, which break down sugars and make chemicals that give the bread its chewy, sour taste. Generally speaking, bakers make bread dough rise using yeast, but the source of the yeast is what makes sourdough special. Nowadays, you can buy little foil packages with Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast – a species that we use in baking and brewing. But before grocery stores, people h...
