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> Did people in the past make bread without sugar? They do it in the present. Greetings from Europe. I hold in my hand a loaf of cheap (€1.20) supermarket bre
by nerdbert 2y ago
> Did people in the past make bread without sugar?
They do it in the present.
Greetings from Europe. I hold in my hand a loaf of cheap (€1.20) supermarket bread, which tastes perfectly pleasant. The little supermarket on my street moves a full shelf of this every day.
The ingredients are:
- Wholewheat flour
- Water
- Wheat gluten
- Yeast
- Malt flour (barley, wheat)
- Rye sourdough powder
- Salt
- Sesame seeds
- Poppy seeds
- Polenta
- Rapeseed oil
I have experienced the bread in the USA and it tastes like a light cake. The sugar makes it cloying to my taste. I guess it's all about what you're used to. But yes, bread without sugar is a very normal thing, and I wouldn't want sugar in mine.
- hollerith 2y agoThe "Malt flour" in your bread is probably mostly sugar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malt#:~:text=modifying%20the%20grains%27%20starches%20into%20various%20types%20of%20sugar%2C%20including%20monosaccharide%20glucose%2C%20disaccharide%20maltose%2C%20trisaccharide%20maltotriose%2C%20and%20higher%20sugars%20called%20maltodextrines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malt#:~:text=modifying%20the%2.... Also, it is pretty easy to buy bread not containing sugar in the US.
- ahartmetz 2y agoMalt flour contains 6-20% of sugar according to a German source I've found, so together with its low rank in the ingredient list, it's not a whole lot of sugar.