Bread is an essential food for us while cake is a ceremonial one. Both of these two foodstuffs have their own legacy and magic that they have cast on us. You would hardly hear of someone who doesn’t like cakes or breads.
Cake:
Who doesn’t love it? Well, we are not the only ones. The history of this tempting confection goes centuries back. The word is derived from Anglo-Saxon origin. Just after the ancient people discovered flour, they started making cakes. Cakes were baked only on special occasions, due to the costly ingredients required.
Today, cakes are still maintaining their reputation as ‘ceremonial treats’.
When you are going to make a cake, you need to make sure a few things such as,
1. Use heavy gage aluminum pans.
2. Put the icing spatula in hot water and take it out to wipe with a towel. Then do the icing.
3. Don’t forget to use parchment paper on the baking pan. This applies to cookies also.
4. Heat the oven long before you put the baking pan on it.
5. Properly grease the pan with butter using paper before putting the parchment paper.
6. If there is excess flour inside, turn the pan on its head.
After you have finished the cake successfully, it’s time for decorations. You can decorate the cake with a number of options available, like shaved chocolate, cocoa powder, butter cream, crystallized fruits, or any design according to your choice.
Bread,
Bread is made with flour and water. Some ingredients like yeast, milk, sugar, egg, fruits are also used depending on the type of bread that is going to be made. The history of bread dates back to the Neolithic era. Initially, it was made with ground cereal grains and water, giving it a paste like texture. This very bread had diversified and spread in to most countries like, Persian taboons, Mexican tortilla, Indian rotis and chapattis, Middle Eastern pita etc.
In the medieval Europe, bread had made its position on the table as a part of a meal. Today’s sliced bread is the brainchild of a man named Otto Frederick Rohwedder, who invented the bread slicing machine in 1928.
Types of bread:
• White bread (basic ingredient: flour)
• Brown bread (basic ingredient: bran, endosperm and caramel coloring)
• Whole meal bread (basic ingredient: bran and endosperm)
• Wheat germ bread (basic ingredient: same as the above but only with added wheat germ)
• Whole grain bread (basic ingredient: same as whole meal but with more fibre)
• Granary bread (basic ingredient: granary flour, wheat germ and whole grains)
• Rye bread (basic ingredient: rye grains)
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