Bakery Food Manufacture and Quality: Water Controland Effects

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John Wiley & Sons, Apr 15, 2008 - Cooking - 224 pages
Water is the major contributor to the eating and keeping qualities and structure of baked products. Its management and control during preparation, processing, baking, cooling and storage is essential for the optimisation of product quality. This highly practical book describes in detail the role and control of water in the formation of cake batters, bread, pastry and biscuit doughs, their subsequent processing and the baked product.
 

Contents

Water Control and Effects 1 Water and its roles in baked products
1
Water Control and Effects 2 The role of water in the formation and processing of bread doughs
24
Water Control and Effects 3 The role of water in the formation and processing of batters biscuit and cookie doughs and pastes
48
Water Control and Effects 4 The contribution of water during processing baking cooling and freezing
72
Water Control and Effects 5 Effects of water on product textural properties and their changes during storage
95
Water Control and Effects 6 Water activity
115
Water Control and Effects 7 Moisture migration and its control in composite products
135
Water Control and Effects 8 Methods of determining moisture content and water availability
157
Water Control and Effects 9 Strategies for extending bakery product shelflife
188
Water Control and Effects Index
206
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Stanley P. Cauvain and Linda S. Young are the authors of Bakery Food Manufacture and Quality: Water Controland Effects, published by Wiley.

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