Bread recipe (bread machine)
I (metaphorically) dusted off the bread machine a few days ago. I am once again riffing off of this recipe.
The result is better this time than the last couple; from the resuts I've been getting I'm not sure whether I've been over or under yeasting the bread. This time I used a little more AP flour (proportionally), newer yeast which is also not the regular kind, and I put in the honey (I think I've been leaving it out, but I'm not sure if I added in more sugar to compensate). Not sure which of these factors is the key one, it's probably all of them together.
This time I used (as transcribed from the whiteboard):
Dry:
The bread has reasonable air pockets (crumb), and doesn't look like it's risen and then fallen again. And it's tasty, so I'm fairly happy with it.
The result is better this time than the last couple; from the resuts I've been getting I'm not sure whether I've been over or under yeasting the bread. This time I used a little more AP flour (proportionally), newer yeast which is also not the regular kind, and I put in the honey (I think I've been leaving it out, but I'm not sure if I added in more sugar to compensate). Not sure which of these factors is the key one, it's probably all of them together.
This time I used (as transcribed from the whiteboard):
Dry:
- 1.5 c AP flour
- 1 c WW flour
- 0.5 c barley flour
- 0.5 c steel-cut oats (they mostly stayed crunchy)
- 1 tbs dark brown sugar
- [I wrote "2 Tb Flour" here, but that can't be right]
- pinch of sea salt
- 2 tbs butter (cold, because I forgot to get it out of the fridge ahead of time)
- 2 tbs honey (probably a bit more because the the second tablespoon overflowed)
- 1.25 c water
- 1 packet rapid rise yeast
The bread has reasonable air pockets (crumb), and doesn't look like it's risen and then fallen again. And it's tasty, so I'm fairly happy with it.