Let’s take a look at some of my favorite toppings to use when baking loaves of bread, whether they are free-form or in a loaf pan, and then look at some practical steps on how to ensure they stick to your bread dough. What ingredients work well to top bread dough?
I like to think of dough as soft taffy (although technically,bread dough is foam). Gasses can get trapped in this sticky and amorphous substance, get pushed and moved around, sometimes coalesce into larger bubbles, and sometimes smash and turn into smaller ones. If the blob is too stiff—l...
Take your bread dough and cut it into 3 equal pieces. Step2 Roll each piece into a long fat sausage - they should all be the same length and thickness Step3 Put one on top of the other & start to plait. Right over middle, then over left. ...
In a loaf of bread, it is this flour-to-maltose reaction that actually drives the expansion of the bread for the most part -- the small amount of sugar you mix into the bread dough is used up by the yeast fairly quickly. Experiment 3 From the previous two experiments, you can see ...
Divide your prepared bread dough – enough for one loaf – into three equal pieces using a sharp knife. Roll each piece of bread dough into a long rope. The three ropes should be uniform in length and thickness. Step 2. Lay the three ropes side by side and pinch them together on one...
From classic loaves to doughs with exciting flavour twists, we've got you covered with our ultimate guide to bread. Find out how to waste less with our tips for storage and leftovers, how to make bread from scratch and discover a new favourite loaf with our easy recipes. ...
We have the perfect brioche recipe to take your weekday breakfast to a whole new level, impress with a brunch bonanza of brioche french toast or even use it to create a delicious apricot brioche bread and butter pudding. Packed full of juicy apricots, this sweet dough is bursting with natur...
Punch down the dough, roll into desired loaf shape, cover with plastic again and allow to rise until doubled in volume. Place a bowl of water in the stove and pre-heat to 425°. Turn down to 400 when you put the bread in. Bake 20-30 minutes, depending on shape of loaves. Bread ...
In 2023, we added a sixth video at the end of this shaping article, showing how to shape very sticky, low gluten dough. Fundamentally, when you shape bread dough you’re doing two things: primarily you’re molding the dough into the basic shape of bread that you want to bake. Secondari...
Bread is a staple in most homes, and my home is definitely not an exclusion from that. Everyone in my home and my friends that have tasted these Bread rolls are all in love with it. In fact, I used this bread roll dough for making my famoussausage bread rollswhere I wrapped this dou...