
Secrets of Sourdough (encore)
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The History of Commercial Baker's Yeast
It was two Hungarian-born brothers, Charles and Max Fleischman, who first commercialized Pasteur's insight. By the 1960s, boring commercial baker's yeast was available as shelf stable granules in little packets. And by then, bakers had also invented industrial processes that sped up the whole rising and baking process to just over three hours.
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