How Do You Make A Fruit Bread Rise Higher With No Yeast?
No yeast? You can still make a light and fluffy fruit bread. Rather than using yeast to give the bread its lift, this bread uses baking powder and baking soda as leavening. Just as mixing baking soda with vinegar produces bubbles in a glass, when baking soda combines with an acid in a fruit bread, the bubbles get trapped in the dough, lifting it. Known as quick breads, a fruit bread with no yeast does not require a long rising time. One of the reasons a fruit bread may not have risen during baking could have been that it was let sit too long after mixing. Find out about this and other mistakes bakers make that prevent quick fruit breads from rising as they should. Use cake or pastry flour instead of all purpose flour. Cake and pastry flours have a lighter texture and prevent toughness in the bread. Check that your baking soda and baking powder still react by combining one half tsp. of baking soda with one tbsp. of vinegar in a cup. Repeat this with the same amount of baking powder and
