1, the practice is different
Cake is made by the oven, the cake is made with eggs, sugar, wheat flour as the main ingredients. Milk, juice, milk powder, spices, salad oil, water, shortening, baking powder as auxiliary materials. After mixing, modulation, baking to make a snack like a sponge.
Bread is also written 麺 package, a grain (usually wheat) milled and heated food. Wheat flour as the main raw material, yeast, eggs, fat, sugar, salt and other auxiliary materials, water to make dough, after dividing, molding, rising, baking, cooling and other processes processed into baked goods.
2. Different materials
The materials of cake mainly include flour, sweetener (usually sucrose), binder (usually eggs, vegans can use gluten and starch instead), shortening (usually butter or margarine, low-fat cakes will be replaced by fruit juice concentrate), liquid (milk, water or fruit juice), flavorings and leavening agents (such as yeast or baking powder).
Bread is a food product made from grain crops such as rye and wheat as the basic ingredient, which is ground into flour, then mixed and made into dough blanks by adding water, salt, yeast, etc., and then heated by baking, roasting, steaming, or frying.
3, the characteristics of different
Cake recipes in the amount of fat up to about 60% of the flour, used to lubricate the batter, so as to produce a soft organization, and help the batter in the mixing process to blend a lot of air to produce puffing effect. Cream cakes and pudding cakes belong to this category.
The recipe for bread is characterized by a lower proportion of oil and sugar than other products. According to the international practice of staple bread, the amount of flour as the basis for calculation, the amount of sugar is generally not more than 10%, less than 6% of oil. The main rationale for this is that staple breads are usually eaten with other side products, so it is not necessary to add too many supplementary ingredients on their own. Staple breads mainly include flat item or curved top pillow bread, large round bread, French bread.
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