Word Origin & History. regimen mid-15c., act of governing, from O.Fr. regimen (14c.), from L. regimen rule, guidance, government, from regere to rule (see regal). Medical sense of course of diet, exercise, etc. for sake of health first recorded late 15c.
Soda bread. Soda bread (Irish: arÃ¡n sÃ³ide, Scots: fardel, Serbian: Äesnica / ÑÐµÑÐ½Ð¸ÑÐ°) is a variety of quick bread traditionally made in a variety of cuisines in which sodium bicarbonate (otherwise known as baking soda) is used as a leavening agent instead of the traditional yeast.
Yeast, Gluten and Carbon Dioxide. You make sourdough bread from the same basic ingredients that you use for any other bread. The two most important ingredients are flour and yeast. 1  Yeast is a single-cell fungus that breaks down the starches in wheat flour, forming sugar.2  This is fermentation. Yeast is a leavening agent for bread. 2  It is what makes the bread rise. 3  Flour comes from any kind of ground grain, but most bread contains wheat flour. 4  Two proteins found in wheat flour, gliadin and glutenin, form a stretchy substance called gluten.