Anything that ferments over a shorter or longer period of time - some people use beer, other sodium bicarbonate, others use sour milk or home made cheese if fatty and the last option is a mixture of flour, fat and water that is left for a few days and to which it is periodically added more flour and water (this last one is the recipe our grandmothers used). Try a good cookery book because a good recipe is essential for a beginner. It just gives that satisfaction to see professional results with very little effort. Changing a recipe and still having a good result requires a significant amount of knowledge and experience in the kitchen or a good amount of luck.
Remember to knead well and long your dough if you're making bread...
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For the typical combination crispy and chewy texture of Pizza crust, there is no substitute for yeast. You can use baking powder, but the texture will be more biscuit like; in fact, you can make a biscuit dough and use it for a quickbread pizza crust.
Place it in a cooler enviroment.
Pretzels are made with yeast dough. Cake yeast could be substituted for dry yeast, or one might make a "sponge" or sour dough starter which uses wild yeasts from the air. But some sort of yeast must be used in order to make actual pretzels.
Yeast is used to make bread by fermenting the dough.
With yeast, one of yeasts main point is to make dough rise.
Yeast are tiny microscopic animals. Yes, ANIMALS. When you put sugar in bread, yeast eat the sugar and release Carbon Dioxide, causing the gas pockets to make the dough rise.
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to make the dough rise
Yeast is usually needed to make dough rise. The yeast prefer warmer temperatures as they break down the sugars in the yeast to make carbon dioxide- which make it rise. Follow the instructions on the yeast's packet in order to find out the desired "magic" water temperature.
Yeast dough will rise more slowly if kept at a lower temperature. Chilling the dough in a refrigerator will cause slow, overnight rising. One can also use less yeast in proportion to the flour in the recipe.
It reacts with the sugars to make it rise.
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Yeast doughs are used to make countless types of bread. "Dishes" made with yeast dough would be pizza and calzone.