Archive for March, 2008

The yeast consumes a great deal of the nutritive part of the flour

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

The yeast consumes a great deal of the nutritive part of the flour. This
may amount to from 5 to 8 per cent. of the food value, and I have read
that sometimes it is as high as 20 per cent. Liebig said that the
fermentation destroyed enough food material daily in Germany to supply
400,000 people with bread. […]