The various textures of baked goods and pastas are created by the structures of their doughs and batters. Those structures are composed of three basic elements: water, the flour’s gluten proteins, and its starch granules. Together, these elements create an integrated, cohesive mass. That cohesiveness is what gives pasta its close- textured silkenness. It’s also what makes bread doughs, pastry doughs, and cake batters divisible into microscopically thin but intact sheets. Breads and cakes are light and tender because the protein-starch mass is divided up by millions of tiny bubbles; pastries are flaky and tender because the protein-starch mass is interrupted by hun- dreds of thin layers of fat.
The various textures of baked goods and pastas are created by the structures of their doughs and batters. Those structures are composed of three basic elements: water, the flour’s gluten proteins, and its starch granules. Together, these elements create an integrated, cohesive mass. That cohesiveness is what gives pasta its close- textured silkenness. It’s also what makes bread doughs, pastry doughs, and cake batters divisible into microscopically thin but intact sheets. Breads and cakes are light and tender because the protein-starch mass is divided up by millions of tiny bubbles; pastries are flaky and tender because the protein-starch mass is interrupted by hun- dreds of thin layers of fat.
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