Yeast Bread

By mazichl
  • 10,000 BCE

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    Started in Egypt when bakers used different grains to create a variety of flavor in their bread. Wheat was the most common at the time.
  • 3500 BCE

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    Bakers began experimenting with different ingredients like honey, eggs, dates, seeds, and spices to create a variety of choices
  • 3000 BCE

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    The First Baked leavened bread was made by the egyptians
  • 1000 BCE

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    The Invention of the Wheel was created and used for grinding wheat into flour
  • 800 BCE

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    The creation of bread spread and the Ancient Greeks learn from the Egyptians
  • Apr 24, 1492

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    Christopher Columbus reaches the United States and bread is officially brought to the United States

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    Bartholomew Gosnold plants the country's first wheat crop in Massachusetts. Within a century, amber waves of grain grow from Maryland to New England

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    Anton Van Leeuwenhoek developed the first microscope. Scientists could now investigate yeast up close

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    Louis Pasteur was the first one to discover how yeast actually works.

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    9 years after Louis' findings of the purpose of yeast, Flesichmann.s yeast was founded and the modern baking era was born