METHOD FOR PREPARING WHEAT LEAVEN Russian patent published in 2003 - IPC

FIELD: baking industry. SUBSTANCE: method involves joint growing of yeast, lactic-acid and propionic-acid bacteria in flour nutritive medium, with farinaceous saccharified enriched scalded flour being used as nutritive medium and prepared by adding 5.0-10.0 wt% of semi-defatted or defatted soya flour and 0.10-0.20 wt% of citric acid, with citric acid being introduced during flour scalding; providing saccharification of carbohydrates and hydrolysis of protein substances with enzyme preparations of α-amilase-Fungamyl and protease-Neutrase in the ratio of 1.0:1.0-1.5:1.0 in an amount of 0.002-0.003% by weight of flour; using saccharified enriched scalded flour for growing mixture of microorganisms at temperature of 30-32 C for 3-5 hours. EFFECT: improved composition of medium and biological properties of leaven. 1 tbl, 5 ex