Bread Recipe (by popular request)

Easy Bread Recipe For Kids 

 To make one large loaf of bread you will need: 
4 cups / 500g strong white bread flour
1 1/2 cups /300ml warm water
1 sachet (8g or 1 1/2 teaspoons) fast action dried yeast
2 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon olive oil

To make your loaf:
1. Pre-heat the oven to 225 degrees Celsius.
2.  Measure out all the ingredients into a large bowl and combine them together using 30 kneading movements.
3. Leave for 10 minutes then knead again using 30 movements.
4. Leave for another 10 minutes then knead again using 30 movements.
5. Leave the dough in a warm place for 30 minutes, with a clean cloth covering the top of the bowl.
6. Knead lightly and shape the dough into a round.
7. Place it on a greased baking tray.
8. Leave for another 30 minutes in a warm place
9. Bake the bread for 20-25 minutes.

Baking Our Bread (Food Technology & Science)

Baking Bread on PhotoPeach

Our Balloon Experiment

To try and see the carbon dioxide that is created when sugar is added to yeast we completed the following experiment. We got a small bottle and added a sachet of yeast, one teaspoon of sugar and 3cm of warm water. We then put the balloon over the top of the bottle to see what would happen.We drew our observations and labelled and annotated them.  We also filled in a cloze activity about what had happened.

Yeast Cell Diagram

Grayson

Isabella S

Breanna

Flow Charts: From Wheat to Bread

Flow Chart - From Wheat to Bread

Today we selected the best thinking tool to show the process of making bread from wheat.  We decided on a flow chart because it will show the steps of a process in sequence.  We watched a short video about this process then discussed what picture and caption we will put in each box tomorrow.
Here are the stages in the process from wheat to bread ...


1. The wheat is carefully grown in a field.
2.  It is harvested so it can be milled.  using a combine harvester.
3. The harvested grains are stored in good safe conditions until they are needed.  These are called silos.
4.  The harvested wheat is sent to the mill and is washed, ground and gristed until flour is made.
5.  The flour is used  by bakeries in NZ to make bread.
6.  The bread is sold in shops and supermarkets.

Watch this Dough Rising at High Speed

Watch this video. By the end of our inquiry into bread we would like to explain how dough rises and why.

The bread stories

The Grain Chain: An introduction

Does Sugar Affect the Growth of Yeast?

We wanted to see whether the amount of sugar added affected the growth of the yeast.  To do this we made up 3 different mixtures

Bowl 1:   Yeast and water only - some small amounts of the yeast tried to foam up but not much                          happened

Bowl 2:   Yeast, water and 1 teaspoon sugar - the mixture foamed up and rose quite quickly and held                  its shape

Bowl 3:   Yeast, water and 5 teaspoons sugar - did foam up and rise but at a much slower rate, but after a while it began to slowly callapse.

So yes, sugar does affect the growth of yeast.

Because yeast is only one cell it can't make its own food, so we need to give it food (sugar).  The yeast eats the sugar and makes carbon dioxide.

We then added flour to each of the mixtures and made them into a dough and baked each one to see whether there would be any difference in taste.  Below are some comments.

Bowl 1 (No sugar)                       Most didn't like this one
The yeast taste was stronger because there was no sugar to balance it
There was nothing to cover the taste of the yeast
Was a bit dry

Bowl 2 (1 teaspoon sugar)          Majority liked this one
Tasted more like bread
Was softer

Bowl 3 (5 teaspoons sugar)         2 or 3 really liked this one
Very sweet
Cake like flavour
Had a stronger flavour/taste

A Wheat Grain

We looked at the grain of wheat and how it has three main parts.
The Bran Layer - Hard covering
The Wheat Germ - The seed
The Endosperm - Inside the grain

We then sketched and labelled a grain of wheat