All Things Bread
Across
- 3. Civilization known for early leavened bread and ovens.
- 4. Carbohydrate in flour broken down by yeast.
- 5. Mouthfeel of bread; airy, dense, or chewy.
- 8. Fermented dough used to leaven new dough.
- 9. Cooking dough in heat to make bread.
- 10. Taste of bread influenced by ingredients and fermentation.
- 13. Factor affecting yeast activity and fermentation rate.
- 16. Protein that speeds up chemical reactions (like breaking down sugar for yeast).
- 18. Any method used to make dough rise.
- 20. River valley civilization with unique bread techniques.
- 21. Ancient Chinese civilization; used wheat and grains for food.
- 22. Society with agriculture, technology, and social structure.
- 23. Proportion of ingredients in a recipe.
- 24. Working dough to develop gluten.
- 27. equation Mathematical tool used to scale recipes.
- 28. Mixture of flour, water, yeast, and other ingredients.
- 30. Graph concept; can represent rate of dough rise over time.
- 31. A single set of dough made at one time.
- 32. The process of letting dough rise before baking.
Down
- 1. Quantitative value for ingredients or dough rise.
- 2. How civilizations exchanged ingredients and baking knowledge.
- 6. Early river valley civilization; first large-scale bread production.
- 7. Adjusting a recipe to make more or less product.
- 10. The process where yeast converts sugar into CO₂ and ethanol.
- 11. Alcohol produced as a byproduct of yeast fermentation.
- 12. The inside texture of baked bread.
- 14. Set of instructions and ingredient amounts.
- 15. Microorganism that ferments sugars.
- 17. Tool for baking bread.
- 19. Basic ingredient for early breads (wheat, barley, millet).
- 25. Protein network in wheat flour that traps gas and gives dough elasticity.
- 26. dioxide Gas produced by yeast during fermentation.
- 29. The amount of water relative to flour in dough.