Making Bread

Miss Gandhi and Mr Dobson have been busy teaching Room 7 about starch, yeast and CO2 and how they can be used to make bread.

On Tuesday each table group made a loaf of bread and ate it at the end of the day. It was delicious!

Ella and Jonathan, who are our class photographers, took these photos of the process we followed:

Firstly the yeast needs to be 'excited' by feeding and watering it. We fed the yeast sugar and let it soak up warm water.



We mixed flour and sugar together


we added warm water which helped the starch in the flour swell up and become sticky.

Next we added the yeast mixture and kneeded the bread.

The bread dough needed to be kneeded for a long time until it became elastic


We left the kneeded dough in the sun. The warmth of the sun helped the yeast grow and release CO2. The CO2 gas made the bread dough puff up.
We put the bread dough in the oven and baked it for 40 minutes.

YUM! Who would have though starch, yeast and CO2 could make something so delicious!