Too much sugar starves yeast (junior high sci project to find out)
So instead of baking this weekend I embarked on a science experiment currently in progress to find out if too much sugar starves yeast. This is something you occasionally hear and may have experienced proofing yeast before with too much sugar in the water mixture. Fortunately my eldest boy who is in Jr high has an experiment and got somewhat interested in the biology and
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