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Yeast is more than just an ingredient in bread. It's a living, breathing, eating, reproducing single celled organism and its life cycle is a very important part of making truly perfect bread. Like all living breathing creatures it needs to be loved, fed, and nurtured to fulfill its purpose in this universe and that purpose is to make your bread rise. Yeast eats sugar and excretes carbon dioxide gas and ethyl alcohol. Those little bubble of carbon dioxide are what make all of the little holes in risen bread and therefore what causes bread dough to turn from an elastic compressed ball of flo...
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