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From Wheat Field to Bread

Bread starts as wheat growing in a field, and its grains get ground into soft flour. Flour, water and yeast are mixed into a dough that rises and is then baked into bread.

In the picture

  1. Wheat: a plant grown in fields whose grains are harvested
  2. Flour: wheat grains ground into a fine white powder at the mill
  3. Dough: flour mixed with water and yeast, which makes it rise
  4. Bread: dough baked in a hot oven until golden and crusty

Examples

  • The toast you eat at breakfast started as wheat in a field
  • Pasta and pizza bases are also made from wheat flour

Quiz: From Wheat Field to Bread (Age 8)

  1. How is flour made?

    • By drying out old bread
    • By mixing water and yeast
    • By grinding wheat grains
  2. What makes dough rise before it is baked?

    • Yeast
    • Salt
    • The hot oven
  3. What happens to dough to turn it into bread?

    • It is kept cold in a fridge
    • It is baked in a hot oven
    • It is ground at the mill

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Daily Life, Age 8