However, as you can see I'm getting a very flat result that's a little too dense. How do people place a well risen shaped loaf into a hot oven (and hot baking stone) without destroying the rise. I now use maltose and sponge ferment to get the "full mouth" while avoiding what I consider the cloying flavor of sucrose. Content posted by community members is their own. After an hour or so the dough will have spread, and somewhat alrmingly! I am determined to become a regular bread baker! Excellent site. The Fresh Loaf is not responsible for community member content. In fact it didnt reach the top of the loaf pan........which is quite shallow anyway. My dough is probably "dry" too because I find it to be a big headache when it is real sticky and gets all over your hands and kneading board like glue so I add considerable dry flour while kneading. Second, realize that it's ok for dough to be sticky or tacky. Worked well at sopping up that spicy concoction. save hide report. Thank you so much for these lessons; I'm delighted to have found this site and have since much improvement in my bread making this week. That was the first time I made Egg Loaf! Best of Luck and keep at it! Work the dough with your hands , pushing it flat with your palms, then folding the far edge towards you pushing it back into the dough with the heel of your hand. My first loaf of bread looked amazing. Too much acid in your loaf can actually cause the yeast to die off. It's all a matter of what flavor you like. Check all (Second loaf on Sunday for my morning toast at work during the weekday? I baked it for 40 mins and it came out lovely in taste and texture. Bread that does not come in a plastic bag that lasts for weeks.Thankfully, Seattle is a city in the US, that this kind of bread can be bought, even at the grocery store...but at a price. That's what my bread is....sing it... "Solid (ba ba ba) Solid as a rock!" Squish and roll, squish and fold, applying a fair amount of pressure on the dough, is a basic kneading technique. If it does not rebound at all, it is probably over-proofed. And thanks very much for all the info you have taken the time put up here, I really appreciate it. New recipe. I did not change the recipe or method at all. A razor blade does the trick if you don't have fancy knives. Seems like not enough water and oven too hot. 89. Nice, quick, down and dirty way to make bread. If not you will end up with numerous smaller holes. Over the years, Keto Egg Loaf has transformed into so many things – from being fried and refried, topped like pizza, made with so many flavorings, and every addition under the sun. These will be discussed in a later article. The result is a rather wide, flat loaf that is a little too dense and heavy. and i will be on regularly!! Due to a temporary susension of some services by couriers, we are currently unable to offer delivery to Ireland, or overseas. These are the fundamental ingredients for making a decent loaf of bread. I just wanted to give a public shoutout to Bonni who shared some starter.I used a basic sourdough process, adapted from countless youtube and fresh loaf articles.Feed the 30g starter with 50g Trader Joe's AP flour and 50g Bottled water, let double in sizemix the following and allow to sit for 1 hour75g of the above250g TJ's AP flour50g Bobs Dark Rye Flour240g … Congratulations! I made my first loaf of sourdough bread, ever!!!! I still get messages to this day about someone else making my Egg Loaf and, honestly, it makes me so happy. No Knead Bread – My First Loaf. Don't forget to cover your dough to prevent it from drying out when you're not handling it. It isn't necessary but it is nice to add. This got me thinking about a cool video I saw that had bread put into baskets while they were rising. Then I put the Dutch oven in to warm up for 30 min, then continued the baking steps. By the way, here in my country there is nothing like Bread Flour (at least in the supermarkets) and AP flour has 4,5% protein content; don´t know if that should account for the additional flour. I am going to work through all the recipes and make great bread with you! It does show good signs of the yeast still being active throughout the kneeding and proofing process and it does increase in size, it's just that after shaping it seems to do all of it's growing sideways rather than up, and has no 'spring' once in the oven. Trust me, it's there! My First Loaf of Bread Posted by lhilyer in Stories and tagged with bread , dinner rolls , yeast February 5, 2012 We never made yeast-raised bread in our house–we had corn muffins (made with Jiffy Corn Muffin Mix – still love it) most of the time, or bake-n-serve dinner rolls, but never homemade bread. Since the bread's crumb in your photo also looks a bit moist and sticky, I'm guessing that you might have sliced into it while it was still hot. Let it bake for 45 minutes and then pull it out. I tried the manual knead, but to nou avail, can I mix and knead the dough with a doug hook and mixer and for how long and what speed. :). We use cookies to give you the best possible experience on our website. I'll give the reduced recipe a shot tomorrow. Bread, rolls, buns, biscuits, you name it, I love it. Take a large mixing bowl and tip in the flour, yeast and salt. Once you understand what role each ingredient performs and what is occurring in each step of the process you will feel liberated to experiment and create your own recipes.Understanding the Ingredients. My First Loaf I've done it...I've bought a breadmaker! As long as you aren't tearing or cutting the dough it is hard to go wrong with kneading. Should I add more water at the start of putting all the ingredients together next time? This worked out well, since the freezing rain hit before we had realized that our refrigerator was lacking eggs and milk, along with a variety of other grocery items! The water should be at about 100 deg F. Prepare the “levain” The levain is essentially a starter but a higher volume of starter. To be completely vague, it just didn't feel right at this point in my life. tempe. Yes, and for most people ordinary tap water is good enough, but if you are having rising problems, try using something that hasn't got chlorine in it. I let it sit for ten minutes, thinking I would let it rest and knead some more. No holes in your dough means your yeast failed to activate. Who is right? the dents should spring back after kneading. Kneading is more than just stirring: kneading actually releases and aligns a protein in the flour called gluten. I went ahead and baked the loaf and it came out better than I thought it would, must have been as the family seemed to enjoy it. It's true. Pages. All original site content copyright 2021 The Fresh Loaf unless stated otherwise. 2 cups wholemeal to one cup white unbleached. UPDATE: rise- 90 mins, punch down, rise 60 mins, shape and final rise underway. Yes, I know best is subjective. Love what you can do with mistakes. I have enjoyed reading this lesson and all the comments and have identified a number of areas in my own baking that need improvement. Cover and set it aside to rise until it doubles in size, approximately 90 minutes. I think I have the yeast that needs to be woken up, so I added 1 teaspoon of Dark raw honey to the water. It can be fun. I was pleased with the structure and the yeasty taste, but the shape was a disaster. Water activates the yeast and dissolves all of the other ingredients. We all are. I suggest that if you like to knead in flour, don't add the last cup of flour in a recipe and use it for kneading. It may take a bit longer to rise but that's a good thing. You may find you like this method more! I usually leave it overnight. I think it came out pretty good for my first loaf. Place the ball of dough back in the (lightly oiled) bowl and cover with cling film or a damp tea towel. Some recipes call for one rise before shaping the loaf. Close. I also think I need to place a moist tea towel over the top when it is proofing as it dried out alot on top. For a basic loaf, all you need to do is put the ingredients together in a large bowl, mix them together with a wooden spoon, and then knead the dough on a hard surface for approximately 10 minutes. I didn't really let it rise as much as I should have after shaping, and scored more than probably necessary. After it has risen to twice it size again, another hour or so, put the loaf into a preheated oven at 375 degrees. Adding more water results is a stickier, flatter loaf with less regular holes in it, like a Ciabatta. save hide report. Once you understand the way these four principle ingredients function, you can look at any recipe and realize that the basic rules of how bread works don't change. A dense, flattened-oval loaf with a hard crust but moist, springy inside. Others like the fullness of flavor resulting from the combination of the sugar and salt. Keep on baking. Vote. Leave the loaf to bake for ten minutes then reduce the oven temperature to 220C/Gas7. Close. Too many rises, however, can result in off flavors, such as bitterness and a beery flavor, to occur in your bread. Before I start this I want to state I am an amateur baker. After the first rise, I put the dough in the fridge, planning to make a loaf the next day. Now if only my yeast had been better at multiplying. 2 teaspoons salt UPDATE: well...it looks and tastes OK to me! By the end it was a good consistency and was as elastic as I have ever had my bread dough go. It would be easily another cup that I add, incrementally, if not more. ), Exact type of yeast (label) expire date and. It may not be the best loaf of bread you've ever had, but it ain't bad. I find this discouraging, because baking a basic loaf of bread is about the easiest thing you can do in the kitchen. I know it needed more water in the initial mixing but then the dough was sticky when kneeding so I just added more flour during the kneading. With the mix, the dough should come together and be shaggy. Continue pushing and folding the … How did it come out? It was incrdible, I just hope it was,`t a"lucky mistake". We’re happy to welcome back our doorsales customers on a pre-booking basis. I'd post pictures but the bin seemed really the only decent place for my failure. At some point, typically around seven or eight minutes into the process, the consistency of the dough will change. Sorry someone hasn't replied sooned. 8 comments. report. This is the recipe that got me to ditch the bread maker and make my bread by hand. There are even methods to cut out at least two more of those (yeast and salt), but the end product is unlikely to come out tasting like a typical loaf of bread. While we are on this topic. (A Panasonic SD-257, since you ask.) Or reshape and let it rise again? You will find the resulting dough will come together much easier and generally it's less sticky and requires less flour. I'm glad you are still motivated to keep going. hey! Rise time is affected by the amount of water in the dough, ambient temperature, amount type and age of yeast, elevation, dough temp (cold water or frozen flour) type of flour. Apart from adding the seeds to the top (which I can now successfully do having looked that up elsewhere on this site!) My first loaf! 4D017240-060C-4D92-8A11-73E717189549.jpeg 8B6E1DA3-B803-4731-9916-1CFF1D26A388.jpeg Not too shabby, for my first loaf. Without this step your bread will have uniformly small holes, more like a muffin or loaf of banana bread. Attached are pictures of my second attempt at lesson one. I probably kneaded in a little more flour the first time, resulting in a slightly drier dough, and the second time, I let the dough rise in a slightly warmer place, as the house was rather cool both times, and I wondered whether this would help. Shape it, either by putting it in a greased loaf pan or by rolling it out into a long loaf and putting it on the back of a cookie sheet. A teaspoon or two of yeast per loaf is typically called for. or does it have to do with something else I did in the process? It should feel, soft and springy by the time you finish - it will take about 10 minutes. In fact, all-purpose flour can be substituted for bread flour in most cases. It's very well organized and easy to understand. I only kneaded the dough briefly after the punching down, and not at all before shaping the loaf after the 2nd rise. If it slowly fills back in, it's just right; put it into the oven. Thanks for the lesson, sorry I couldn't do it justice! Posted by 4 days ago "Best" Dairy-Free White Bread. Thank you so much for writing this tutorial. Our Home Baking website aims to help you to find your inspiration. Does that mean I over cooked it a bit? I am attempting this loaf today.I have just finished kneading the dough for the specified time, but it kept tearing with each knead after about five minutes, I did keep going to ten minutes assuming/hoping that this would help, but nope still tearing. You do not shape the loaf until you are ready for the final rise. My first loaf Growing up in Germany gave me an acquired taste for homemade, European bread. If you see anything inappropriate on the site or have any questions, contact me at floydm at thefreshloaf dot com. My goal is to make a loaf a day for the next few weeks and see if we can save money over buying the ever-increasing-in-cost french baguetts from Publix while learning a new skill. I can’t … mmm.. a 1/4th of a coffe mug of water..20 seconds in the microwave.. did you take the temp of the water before you proofed your yeast? Archived. The longer the yeast feeds, the more complex the flavor of the loaf. Log in to My Shipton Mill to manage your orders and your online experience. Thanks Nigel Slater! I am afraid that if I keep adding flour the dough may be too stiff. :(. Most often I get rock hard loaves.They do rise, but NEVER has it ever "doubled in size" even after letting it rise 12 hours!I had tried all three types of yeast and it reacts to proofing like it should.When I kneed it it acts like rubber and springs right back making kneading hard as all get out!If the bread does not taste like beer, it has no flavor at all!The dough usually forms a near rock hard crust while rising.Today was the first time I had a crust soft enough not to break teeth and that's only because I washed it with starch and water (advise from a book).I have only had one loaf that was not only edible, it was somewhat palatable, but not decent enough to be considered tasty.So far I have purchased 3 book on baking bread and they all had some good info, but none had a list of "if this happened, this is what you did wrong" chapter.I have even looked for a bread baking class, but unless I want to enter a culinary institute, there is nothing out there local to me.King Arthur in VT had a class while I was visiting last year, but it was $400 for a 2 day class!!!!!!!! My first loaf, and I don’t think I can ever go back to store bought bread. Many moons ago my mom got me, a 15 year old boy, a job at our city's Sears store. and it also turned out decent. I took a pic straight away because I was so proud of my first loaf. If the dough sticks to everything in sight, it's too wet. Our Baking section is a great place to find inspiration - why not have a look and see? i tried to rush my loaf and ended up with the same results. Can I just halve the amounts? I was expecting to get something similar to sandwich bread, but what came out was nothing like. Would it be best to do the second rise in a bowl? You can use our Word Search tool to search our site. First, if you are scooping or packing the flour into your measuring cup, you can get a lot more flour (by weight) than what the recipe intended. I didn't really let it rise as much as I should have after shaping, and scored more than probably necessary. Water. Sears was attached to a mall which included a grocery store. 79 comments. 114. Big mistake,  good dough consistancy will always have a bit of stickiness. This site is powered by Drupal. can some one guide me on ways to proof the dough properly so that it's the first rise is under 2 hours at least? If it is too wet and won't come free from the sides of the bowl or keeps sticking to your hands, add a little more flour. I'm not embarrassed or ashamed to admit that yours truly STINKS at baking. I am so thankful for finding this recipe. Is it possible the recipe is calling for Kosher salt and the reason a few of us have turned out overly salty versions is due to using table salt? Yes, wet hands! ‍♀️ I actually got a little emotional when I pulled these babies out of the oven. I'm surprised that everyone needs about an hour or so before their dough rises properly when mine takes more than 8 hours. Very lightly oil the counter top first and try it. Products ;-)  Allowing the bread to cool all the way down to room temperature allows the bread to finish baking (kind of like letting a roast stand for a few minutes before carving after taking it out of the oven), permits some moisture to evaporate and allows the rest of the moisture to be evenly distributed in the bread. I totally forgot the shaping step and so I just dumped the ball out of the bowl on to a scorching hot pizza stone (that never leaves the oven) and got a cute round bread with a chewy center. Yes, I would certainly suggest moving on to a wetter dough. Yesterday I made this recipe (turned out pretty ok if I do say so myself!) Yes I use a dough hook and Kenwood mixer. My first loaf! I wanted an artisan style bread (no tin) so just put on a cookie tray for the final rise. The loaf must rise until it is approximately double in size. My first loaf in 2021. My First Loaf All right, I have some news: I am no longer going to baking school. Any help would be greatly appreciated. 1.4k. (a loose description of ciabatta dough here, in beginner's terms) I used to (wrongly) imagine that dough should be firm and dry in feel, simply because I didn't learn to bake bread with Mom. I believe oven spring occurs due to the rapid increase in temperature resulting in the moisture in the dough being converted to steam. It tastes great however (and my other half agrees!) the dough was still sticking to the sides of the bowl and the hook like a circus tent. My dough was a nice sticky texture, and my yeast was properly activated (foamed up properly before added to the flour). Think of it as the yeast feeding itself quicker and quicker as it heats up until the rising temperature finally kills it off. I keep mine on the dry side and just add flour at first mix stage before first prove . It happens to many of us in the beginning, we use too much flour kneading the dough so that it isn't sticky. My first loaf!! Let rest 5 minutes. Will post on progress. Works just fine. i also had been trying to make breadsticks to go with our salads. I figured if someone has a blog and fancy pictures and pretty fonts, well their cooking must be good right? Thank you for the lesson and the recipe. Kitchen scales aren't expensive. The reason I wonder this is that although I definitely notice the consistency of the dough change while kneeding, it doesn't look as beautiful and silky as the pictures I see here and elsewhere, but I'm afraid of continuing too much and over-kneeding. Hi there. 99% Upvoted. I don't think this is correct. No flour, no bread. Do you guys use these baskets? Would it have made a difference to my bread? Too much flour in the dough can also hamper rise. Is this the perfect solution? Generously flour a work surface and scoop the dough out onto it. My First loaf of 2011. I always put the salt in first, then the salt and finally the yeast which at this point should be kept sperate from the salt. My First loaf of 2011. Welcome to the Techical Difficulties pages! Its now covered sitting on the fridge. The more you knead the more it will firm up. It actually was elastic/chewy like "real bakers bread" is. I followed the directions to a tee and my loaf turned out great. I can't wait to read the next lesson and tackle my next loaf! And, since these are made to help the beginners (like me) to understand and aid in baking with the simplest of instructions, can active be used with these if I proof the yeast? share. My first loaf! Hmmmm). Knock down after first prove at speed 1 for 2 minutes. I also made a starter. I tossed in a bit of oregano before mixing, and what I ended up with was akin to what you get at a place like Carrabba's to dip in oil&herbs before your entree arrives. I followed the instructions and this is what I got. This "issue" is all about feel and texture. It also adds flavor that most of us expect in even the simplest of breads. You can probably get rid of the beery flavor in your next bake by reducing the yeast to half the quantity that you used in this bake. 2 teaspoons yeast Scoring the bread is just slicing it. You should feel it change. 3 comments. The crust came out a bit crunchy and tough. (birmingham uk). EDIT: I believe that would give more salt when measured volumetrically. So read the back of the packet before adding it to your mixture. The first loaf didn't turn out horribly. Adding too much yeast can cause a beery, off taste in your loaf. Still, we had it with homemade chili beans and rice. “I made up this recipe to be the most un … So - both times the yeast seemed to proof well. At this point, drop the dough into a bowl (it's helpful if the bowl is greased to keep your dough from sticking to the bottom - regular spray oil will usually do the trick) and throw a towel over the bowl, and leave it alone to let it rise. Here is my first attempt at baking using the generic recipe above. My first loaf, and I don’t think I can ever go back to store bought bread. After much debate I officially withdrew last week. I normally can't tell the difference between sea salt and mined salt. Thanks for your reply, I will do just that. The bread I love is crusty on the outside and soft in the inside. In bread, I can - especially when sugars are involved. I wrote about what sugar does in the next lesson: sugar adds a little more food for the yeast, a touch of sweetness, and something that will caramelize in the oven and give the crust a nice brown color. The purpose of punching down is to free up more food for the yeast. I have looked in the web and KA claims  all there is needed is about 2 min. I literally couldn’t go to sleep last night because I was so excited to... make bread. 350-375°F for 45 minutes is typical for a loaf in a loaf pan. i will recomend it to people i know!! January 4, 2020, the day I made my first ever two loaves of sourdough. I know all microwaves are different, but in mine the water would've gotten way to hot. Remeber the cooling part is still part of the cooking with bread. And it isn't so much a matter of clock time as it is a matter of dough readiness. If it bounces right back, it isn't ready to bake so let it rise some more. Should I do the shaping on the (cold) plate that I will be baking it on?? The dough probably wanted a bit more time to rise in the pan before going into the oven. I think mine has room for improvement but good for a first effort. You can probably find some of this around the house, can't you? Then you give it another hour or so to double in size again. I am only 2 days into bread baking so I am not sure of any ratios/rules/the chemistry behaind all this. My first loaf! However, having shaped the loaf (long loaf on cookie sheet) and left it to rise again, while it does increase in volume, this is not directed upward, but more in a sprawl, and when baking there is little or no oven spring. Next lesson this Friday night so I have fresh bread for the weekend. You mention that the bread has a dense texture, which your photo corroborates. Flour forms the basis for your loaf of bread. I was planning on trying out a loaf for the first time and all I have is actve, but if I need to start out with instant, that is fine, I will just do it tomorrow. The dough had come together quickly and easily. You don't need a $400 class. Bit saltier than I like (will adjust that) but delicious. take care Emma! and felt really excited about the prospect of making my first loaf of bread ever. 44. Ok it got brown on the top but that's about it. Knead it for 10 minutes. My basic "French" bread recipe is the same as the one here in this Lesson, except it calls for sugar. Got my whites on this morning and my new crocs (essential baking footwear - thanks nat!) Dough cycle finished in oven. I might even try dutch ovening this at camp. Higher or lower temperatures can have just as much influence as time. It is a little less concentrated than instant, so round up a tad or expect it to take a little bit longer. Flour is important as some build more gluten than others and trapping gas is crucial to rise. Which is it--do the finger holes bounce back when you have kneaded enough, or do they stay indented when you are finished? Other recipes call for punching down the loaf to allow two or more rises. So this time I preheated the oven only to 475F. Let’s talk about flour..before I started making sourdough, I had no ... understanding or concept of ‘flour’. Once I started putting NO more flour in than what the recipe called for, and started just accepting that dough might be sticky, my bread suddenly started rising and even looking and tasting nice! share. This time I only used 1tsp of salt (1/2 of what's listed). Well, how was it? If you find it exhausting, you are pushing the dough too hard. Glad I found your site. Good sign. When my bread looked like this, I simply sliced the bread, heated up my griddle, butter the bread and threw it on the hot griddle. There are many additional ingredients and techniques that are used in creating world class breads (some of which I will talk about in future articles), and each step of the process that we discussed (kneading, rising, shaping, scoring, baking) can be further elaborated on, but the approach used in this recipe is at the core of almost every other recipe you will encounter. We had been living abroad in England for a number of years and I frequented my favorite local bakery often but now we are back in the states and have no access to that wonderful selection of artisan breads, so I decided to put a bit more effort into learning about bread so I can make them myself. And just when I thought my baking days were over, Pioneer Woman posted this EASY and DELICIOUS cinnamon bread recipe. doesn't work. Drying out can happen faster than one thinks. 3 cups flour I didn’t get much rise out of it, although I did seem to get a little bit of oven spring. And, yes, proof it first. After 25-30 minutes you can check to see if the loaf is done. It was so easy I really like it, The bread popped out with out sticking and clean up was a breaze. OK, now that you have the basic idea, let's try it out with a really simple basic recipe. My first loaf out of my new bread machine.. Kneading is done when the dough barely sticks to your fingers. If you add a recipe with a photo to the Shipton Mill website, we will send you a voucher for 15% off your next order from the Flour Direct shop. Status check: by the time you are ready to let your loaf rise the yeast should be activated and the gluten should be aligned. Wow, I'm glad you posted that. 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