Why Won’t My Dough Rise?
An overview of one of the most frightening bread problems
Simple Sourdough Pan Bread This is from “The Friends of Carl”, a group dedicated to giving away Carl Griffith’s ancestral sourdough starter. I We talk about them at some length in “Getting a Good Starter” page. This bread is a good learners loaf, and it is the first loaf I baked that was nicely sour! …
Total Cinnamon Rush I can’t believe I’ve never shared this recipe! Though it is a bit of a bother and has caused “issues”. It kinda reminds me of a line in The Beatles song about desserts, “Savoy Truffle” where they sing, “But you’ll have to have them all pulled out after the Savoy Truffle!” Yeah, …
Three Stage Pain Au Levain, Pain au Levain, revisited This note picks up where the Three Stage French Bread (Pain au levain) note left off. If you haven’t read it, I encourage you to do so now. At the end of the previous note, I was left with a bread that was quite, quite dense, …
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Walnut Sourdough Bread (Pain au Levain with Walnuts) Due to the cost of walnuts, we never made this bread in our bakery, it was just a “home bread”, which means I haven’t made this bread in over 15 years – until last week! It was breathtakingly good! Especially toasted with cream cheese! This is a …
Regular Starter Detmolder Starter Regular Starter We need 288 grams of rye starter to make the breads in this recipe. If you want to be really excruitiatingly correct, you could make 144 grams each of a starter with a lighter rye flour and a darker rye flour. This is more practical if you scale the …
Swirly Rye Marbled Rye To Infinity And Beyond! Swirly Rye When I first made swirly rye I thought using equal amounts of each dough was the way to go. However, the dough that was rolled into the center of the roll just took over the loaf visually. Playing with quantites showed that 2/3 of the …
Swirly Rye Bread The Basics Rye Starters American Light Rye American Dark Rye Putting It All Together The Basics Beth, my wife, loves swirled rye breads, like Pepperidge Farm’s Deli Swirl Bread Rye & Pump. There’s something very attractive in the contrast between the dark and light rye breads. There’s something vary flavorful in the …
Seven Grain Cereal Bread This bread is based on a recipe from “Natural Health” magazine. It is a very, very nice bread. It was supposed to use quick rising yeast to get the bread ready to bake in less than an hour. You know how I feel about that… so the recipe went into the …
Pane Siciliano Pane Siciliano is an Italian, well, OK, Sicilian, recipe that is based on using Semolina flour, the same flour used to make pasta. We used the coarse grind, and the results were delightful. Next time, we’ll use an egg wash to help the sesame seeds stick better and to provide more sheen to the loaf. …
Flax Seed Bread This is a hearty, and heart smart, seeded bread. Because it contains flax seeds, it contains omega-3 fatty acids, which help elevate your good cholesterol. The bread is very tasty – a family favorite toasted for breakfast – and a whole lot cheaper than salmon, one of the other good sources for omega-3 …
Olive My Dreams This bread taught me a lot about baking commercially. A bakery in town had a Kalamata Olive loaf and they charged a lot for it and didn’t have as many olives in it as I’d have liked. When I began baking commercially I realized that as a hobbyist I paid more for …
Chocolate Cranberry Sourdough Bread aka Cocoa Craisin Bread If you think Sourdough bread should be made with just flour, water, salt, and starter. … just keep on looking. However, if you like an occasional walk on the wild side, maybe this bread will be up your alley. This bread has a lot of dark, rich chocolate taste in …