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.
Yeast strengthens bread dough. When you stir together flour and water, two proteins in the flourâglutenin and gliadinâgrab water and each other to form a bubblegum-like, elastic mass of molecules that we call gluten.s soon as these ingredients are stirred together, enzymes in the yeast and the flour cause large starch molecules to break down into simple sugars. The yeast metabolizes these simple sugars and exudes a liquid that releases carbon dioxide and ethyl alcohol into existing air bubbles in the dough.