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Measure in the flour, then add salt, yeast and diastatic malt to the bowl, pressing tare after each addition.

Key diastatic enzymes include α-amylases.

Germinating barley grains possess high diastatic power: that is, the combined ability of a complex of enzymes to mobilize fermentable sugars from starch.

Diastatic malt powder can be used in place of sugar in Detroit’s pizza dough to help give the dough a better rise; a heavy dose of malt syrup gives the Quad Cities dough a decidedly rich flavor, forming the base for a pizza that also features tomato sauce and finely ground sausage, both distinctively spiced to form layers of flavor.

Bertinet uses honey, Joseph soft light-brown sugar, Roden sugar, Cook's Illustrated malt syrup, and Baron Baking diastatic malt powder, which I have to order online.