Comment on Is Sugar the Next Tobacco?parentComments−nwh13yI make my own pizza dough and other breads that rises quite happily with no sugar in the mix. There's really no need for sugar, though I don't know enough about yeast to tell you how it works.−snogglethorpe13yAFAIK, the yeasties will eat lots of stuff, including flour, etc.[I vaguely recall adding not sugar, but corn starch to warm water to get the yeast going. It's been a long time though ...]
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I make my own pizza dough and other breads that rises quite happily with no sugar in the mix. There's really no need for sugar, though I don't know enough about yeast to tell you how it works.
AFAIK, the yeasties will eat lots of stuff, including flour, etc.
[I vaguely recall adding not sugar, but corn starch to warm water to get the yeast going. It's been a long time though ...]