美語情景對話 第387期:Baking Bread 烤麪包

Todd: Ah, so Alan, you know, you were a baker so can you explain to the listeners: how do you bake bread?

託德：艾倫，你曾經做過麪包師，你能跟聽衆解釋一下怎麼烘焙麪包嗎？

Alan: Well, you need, to make your basic white bread, white pan bread we call it, you need flour, yeast, sugar, shortening, salt, and water, so depending on how much you want to make, you, first of all, you throw in the flour into a big mixing bowl. Then you throw in the sugar, salt, and the shortening. You give it a mix. Turn on the machine and mix it a little bit because you don't want to have the yeast in direct contact the salt, because salt if it's in direct contact with the yeast, it kills, the yeast will not react and make the bread rise.

艾倫：你需要，嗯，做最基本的白麪麪包，我們稱之爲模製白麪麪包，你需要準備麪粉、酵母粉、白糖、起酥油，鹽和水，量要取決於你想做多大的麪包，首先，把麪粉倒入一個大的攪拌碗中。然後放入白糖、鹽和起酥油。把它們攪拌在一起。把機器打開，然後攪拌，因爲不能讓鹽和酵母粉直接接觸，如果鹽和酵母粉直接接觸會使酵母失活，酵母就不會起作用，不能用來發面了。

Todd: Oh.

託德：哦。

Alan: Then you take the yeast. Whatever amount of yeast you have, and the best way to do it, is you take your water, the amount of water that you need and you break up the yeast into the water, dissolve it in the water, and then start the mixer and as the flour and all the other ingredients are mixing, you pour the water in slowly until you get the consistency that you want. That's one way or you can, after you mixed up the flour, the sugar and the salt and the shortening, a little bit, enough that it's mixed, blended together, you can just add the yeast into the mixture and then add the water, so you mix it until you, probably about, I think about eight minutes, or nine minutes, unitl the dough is developed, and it's a glob and you stop the mixer, you pull it off the bowl, you let it sit on the bench for about five minutes. You let it rise. Then you divide it up, into I think about maybe two kilos, it depends on how big you want you loaf. Usually loaves are between seven and eight hundred grams, maybe one kilo. Divide it up and mold it and put it into the pan. It goes into a proofer. The proofer is a steam box with heat. Moisture and heat, and the bread rises and then when it's at a certain level in the proofer you take it out and put it in the oven.

艾倫：之後要加入酵母粉。不論你放多少酵母粉，最好的方法都是你要加入一定量的水，在酵母粉中加入水進行溶化，之後進行攪拌，把麪粉和其他配料放在一起攪拌，慢慢地往裏加水，直到得到你想要的粘稠度。這是一種方法，或者在攪拌麪粉、白糖、食鹽和起酥油之後，在將這些配料攪拌在一起以後，你可以把酵母粉加入到裏面，之後再加入水進行攪拌，我想大概攪拌八九分鐘吧，麪糰發了以後就可以停止攪拌了，把麪糰從碗裏拿出來，在臺子上放五分鐘。讓麪糰發起來。之後就可以把麪糰分成……我想麪糰大概有兩公斤重，取決於你想要的麪包重量。通常情況下一條麪包的重量在700克和800克之間，也許有一公斤。將麪糰分成等份，用模具製作，之後把它們放在烤盤裏，放到發酵箱中。發酵箱是可以加熱的蒸箱。在溼氣和熱量的作用下，麪包會膨起，在到達一定程度後就可以把它拿出來放進烤箱裏了。

Todd: OK. Sounds good. How long does it have to be in the oven?

託德：好的。聽起來不錯。那需要放進烤箱裏烤多長時間呢？

Alan: The oven? Usually about twenty minutes.

艾倫：烤箱嗎？通常要20分鐘左右。

Todd: And that's it. It's done.

託德：好了。完成了。

Alan: And then you pull it out of the oven and it's done. Fresh baked bread.

艾倫：之後把麪包從烤箱裏拿出來就完成了。新鮮出爐的烤麪包。

重點講解：
1. in contact with
保持聯繫；有聯繫；
eg. When hydrogen peroxide comes in contact with silver, it creates super heated steam.
當過氧化氫與銀接觸就會發生反應，生成大量的熱蒸汽。
eg. From there I tracked down other sites and found myself increasingly in contact with other people whose babies had died.
從這裏我還找到了其他網站，發現自己和其他失去過孩子的人有了越來越多的聯繫。
2. break up
（使）分裂；（被）拆分；（使）破碎；
eg. Workers also used chemical dispersants to break up the oil.
工人們也使用化學消油劑分解石油。
eg. When does the ice break up on the river?
河裏的冰什麼時候融化？
3. mix up
混合；
eg. Mary's children love to mix up the fruit and nuts in the cake before it is cooked.
瑪麗的孩子們在烤蛋糕之前，喜歡把果脯和堅果拌進蛋糕裏。
eg. Mix up the salt with the pepper.
把鹽和胡椒粉混合在一起。
4. divide up
均分；平分；
eg. The aim was to divide up the business, give everyone an equal stake in its future.
目的是爲了平分公司股份，讓每個人將來承擔均等的風險。
eg. They divvied up the winnings between them.
他們瓜分了贏得的錢。