Soda bread Soda bread Soda bread is a variety of quick bread traditionally made in a variety of cuisines in which sodium bicarbonate (otherwise known as "baking soda", or in Ireland, "bread soda") is used as a leavening agent instead of the traditional yeast. The ingredients of traditional soda bread are flour, baking soda, salt, and buttermilk. The buttermilk in the dough contains lactic acid, which reacts with the baking soda to form tiny bubbles of carbon dioxide. Other ingredients can be added such as butter, egg, raisins, or nuts. An advantage of quick breads is their ability to be prepared quickly
Crustless bread Crustless bread Crustless bread is bread without crusts. Panko is made from such a bread, which is produced by passing an electric current through the dough. British food group RHM manufacture a crustless bread targeted at children called Hovis Invisible Crust, which is produced by baking the bread at low temperature. Other bread manufacturers have released crustless bread, with the crusts removed. Measurable nutritional loss can result from omitting crusts from bread. Bread crusts are higher in the antioxidant pronyl-lysine than the inner portion of the bread. Crusts from darker breads, in particular, contain higher amounts of this antioxidant, which