Biloxi Seafood Festival is this weekend. September 6, 2012. The Biloxi Chamber of Commerceâs 31st Annual Biloxi Seafood Festival will be Saturday and Sunday at the Biloxi Town Green. âThe seafood festival is a celebration of family, community, and seafood heritage of Biloxi,â Chamber Director Rachael Seymour said.
If youâve ever taken a bite of bread youâve made, you may wonder how simple ingredients like flour, salt and yeast can produce raised, sometimes wonderfully bubbly bread. It makes people a little squeamish to know it that yeast makes bread dough rise because it is a live single-celled organism. Specifically it is a variety of fungi called Saccharomyces cerivisiae, which is harnessed to eat, drink and be merry, before dying a quick death when exposed to oven heat.
Salt does inhibit growth somewhat, but it can also pull something from the yeast cells to make the dough more elastic. I have baked with pressed yeast initially mixed with only salt. This mix makes the pressed yeast collapse to a liquid, but this liquid still makes the dough rise as normal.alt does retard yeast growth, and in concentrations that are too high, it can indeed kill the yeast. In judicious amounts, salt is what brings out the flavor in the bread and controls yeast growth so that the resulting crumb is nice and even.