What are the ingredients for bread?

Question

Why are each of these ingredients used, and what do they do once inside the dough?

Answer 1

Wheat flour, Yeast, Salt, and Water.

But most commercially processed bread has tons of other crap in it.

Answer 2

Flour
warm water
sugar
yeast
a little oil.

The yeast eats the flour and the sugar and gets a chubby.

The oil keeps it from sticking to the bowl and seals the outside to form a crispy crust that traps the water inside and makes it tender and moist because the water forms pockets and bubbles when it evaporates leaving nice little nooks and crannies.

the water acts as a lubricant emulsifier and buffer causing a viscous environment for all of the ingredients to come together.

Kind of like a singles bar... The water is the bar where a bunch of dry, old, overly active Viagra men (flour & sugar) and horney women (Yeast,) get together and get wet and all rub up against one another until something grows...

Then you shove them in an oven and cook them!

The dough, not the singles...

Answer 3

Depends on what kind of bread you're making, but plain white bread is water (warm), yeast (sugar with it). flour, salt and butter or oil. Water puts everything into a not powder state, flour holds it together and forms that "dough" texture, salt is for taste, butter or oil gives a better consistency to the dough and yeast makes it rise.

Answer 4

flour, yeast, salt, eggs, shortening.
flour, builds the body of the bread, yeast makes it rise, salt gives it flavor, eggs binds it together, shortening shortens the gluten fiber strands in the bread.

Answer 5

1. yeast

2. water

3. flour

4. fats/oils/butter/shortening

5. eggs

6. sugar

7. salt

8. toppings