🍞Why does bread rise? Yeast helps the dough rise.

Yeast is alive. It is a fungus made of a single cell.

💧Dry yeast needs warm water to wake up.

Yeast eats sugar. It gives off a gas.

✋Kneading means pushing, pulling and stretching the dough.

Gluten works like a net. It traps the gas in the dough.

🥣Dough rises in a warm place. It doubles in size.

🎂Baking soda and baking powder make gas bubbles. They help cakes rise.

Children need a grown-up when they bake.

🍞Bread is done baking when it turns golden brown.

Words to know

• yeast: bread helper
• kneading: push and stretch
• gluten: dough net
• fungus: a living thing