How is bread made?

Flour and water get mixed. The dough grows, so bread gets fluffy. Hands pat it into shape. A hot oven bakes it.

Bread is made by mixing flour, water, a little yeast, and salt into dough. Yeast makes tiny bubbles in the dough, like air puffing up a balloon. The bubbles make the dough rise and feel soft. Then the dough is shaped and put in a hot oven. The heat bakes it into bread with a firm outside and a soft inside.

Bread is made by mixing flour, water, yeast, and salt into dough. Flour has proteins that stretch and hold bubbles. Yeast is a tiny living fungus that eats sugar in the dough and makes carbon dioxide gas, which puffs the dough up. This is called rising. In the oven, heat sets the dough’s shape, dries the crust, and browns the outside. Fun fact: the holes in bread are tiny bubble spaces made by yeast.