Ebook: Bakery Food Manufacture and Quality: Water Control and Effects, Second Edition

Water is the major contributor to the eating and keeping qualities and structure of baked products. Its management and control during preparation, processing, baking, cooling and storage is essential for the optimisation of product quality. This successful and highly practical volume describes in detail the role and control of water in the formation of cake batters, bread, pastry and biscuit doughs, their subsequent processing and the baked product.

Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, the book has been expanded and developed through the inclusion of new information and references related to the formation and processing of batters and dough into baked products. The new edition includes a selection of case studies based on practical experience in the manufacture and optimisation of baked products. Each case study, illustrated as appropriate, considers the various roles that water may play in different manufacturing contexts. The book is aimed at food scientists and technologists in bakery companies; ingredient suppliers; flour millers; researchers and students in academic food science departments.

Content:
Chapter 1 Water and Its Roles in Baked Products (pages 1–31):
Chapter 2 The Role of Water in the Formation and Processing of Bread Doughs (pages 32–72):
Chapter 3 The Role of Water in the Formation and Processing of Batters, Biscuit and Cookie Doughs, and Pastes (pages 73–110):
Chapter 4 The Contribution of Water During Processing, Baking, Cooling and Freezing (pages 111–142):
Chapter 5 Effects of Water on Product Textural Properties and Their Changes During Storage (pages 143–173):
Chapter 6 Water Activity (pages 174–198):
Chapter 7 Moisture Migration and Its Control in Composite Products (pages 199–227):
Chapter 8 Methods of Determining Moisture Content and Water Activity (pages 228–262):
Chapter 9 Strategies for Extending Bakery Product Shelf?Life (pages 263–284):