Not exact matches
Too much flour will always make
yeast dough tough and dense, so when my
dough has just enough flour that it doesn't stick to my hands, but is still soft, that's when it's ready.
I definitely had a mess on my counter top as I
did want to keep these tacky (lots of
yeast doughs end up tastier that way).
I used a whisk to lightly mix it up and dissolve the
yeast a little and my wife told me I just ruined the
dough because your recipe doesn't specify to mix it.
A quick check on the date of my two packets of
yeast revealed they were both expired by respectively 1 and 3 years: no wonder my
dough didn't rise as it should!
I used the
dough cycle on the bread machine —
did the warm liquids and
yeast first to sit a few minutes, cut the butter into small chunks and threw everything else in.
Mixing flour, water, salt and
yeast is the first pleasure of making bread — I like my hands in the
dough and always finish the kneading by hand (I'm not a fan of the no - knead bread — it diminishes both fun and flavor; but then again, I have a mixer to
do most of the labor).
One thing most people don't understand about phytic acid, however, is that once phytic acid is neutralized by a long soak in an acid medium (like naturally
yeasted bread
dough) it actually becomes a powerful anti-oxidant.
I don't always have bread
dough around (I fear
yeast), so I was thinking I could improvise that way!
Yeast do alcoholic fermentation and the carbon dioxide they release is the gas that allows the bread
dough to rise.
on
yeast — Here I use active dry (I've never tried this
dough with instant
yeast, if I
do someday I'll update with the results), which needs to be proofed in warm water before adding the other ingredients.
Mari - I like using fast rise
yeast in most of my GF
yeast breads because you don't want to
do the punch - down and second rise with gluten - free
yeast doughs, so it works well to use the accelerated rise
yeasts that don't need that extra rise time.
my
yeast foamed up, but for some reason my
dough did not rise at all, and it was kept in a warm place.
I
did make the bread, changing the recipe slightly by making simple sponge to get the
yeast going and adding a little
dough enhancer so it was easier to stretch.
So here is what I
did This is the master recipe... (for two 1 l lb loaves) 1.5 C lukewarm water (I used the water I had boiled the potato in) 2 1/4 tsp salt 2 1/4 tsp instant
yeast 3 1/4 C all purpose flour and I added this to make it potato roasted garlic 1/2 roasted garlic 1/2 of a boiled potato mashed (I throw the other half of each in a ziploc bag and froze it and ended up making more
dough later that week)
Sometimes it's the
yeast quality that doesn't let the
dough rise.
You
do use
yeast, but you don't have to wait hours to let the
dough rise — so that is why these come together so quickly.
I promise,
yeast is not scary and
does not mean you will be throwing three hour
dough down the drain because it didn't rise properly.
Would this have to
do with the
yeast / rising of the
dough?
Maybe this had something to
do with my
dough now being wetter than Deb's, but the first hour of the first rise had me worried that I had killed the
yeast with my chocolate mix (even though I let it cool)-- barely any growth.
Stir together flour and remaining 3 tablespoons sugar in a bowl, then stir in
yeast mixture (
do not add baking powder yet) with a fork until a
dough forms.
I suspect you can use it for the mixing / kneading /
dough prep part (though you'll still need to proof the
yeast outside the machine because it's active dry and not instant or bread machine
yeast, which
does not need pre-proofing, hm, yes, I believe this is why I never use bread machines: by the time you've
done all that, you could have had two
doughs made and kneaded!).
I don't remember ever adding 1 1/2 c of water... i made this last night and it turned out like a pancake (used boiling water instead of warm water for the
yeast - my mistake) and so I'm remaking it now but the
dough is very soupy - not at all like i remember it being like.
Unlike
yeast breads containing gluten, gluten - free
dough doesn't require the laborious kneading, punch - down and double - rise cycles.
I
do not have a gluten - free option at this time (
yeast dough can be tricky!)
Sounds like you had a primary
yeast failure — and I assume the raw
dough didn't actually rise.
Some bakers have found that the
dough doesn't rise, because the
yeast is not first activated in warm water.
I didn't spend years studying the difference between cake flour and all purpose flour or pastry
dough and
yeast dough.
What makes this recipe easy is the
dough does not call for
yeast.
First off, for people who don't know... Makowiec is the Polish take on a common European poppy seed roll bread made with a sweet enriched
yeast dough wrapped around a delicious citrus - y filling (made with an obscene amount of poppy seeds.
It's also tricky because the
dough for this bread doesn't contain any added
yeast (just the
yeast in the starter) which means the rising process isn't a speedy, beautiful one.
If it doesn't the
yeast is not good and the
dough won't rise.
Made them yesterday also, and the
dough didn't rise... Sometimes, I feel some precision is missing in your step - to - step recipes... What kind of
yeast exactly was it?
I really didn't expect anything as the
yeast really looked a dud, but this morning I shaped the
dough, waited patiently for it to rise again before baking and, Lordy Lordy, they were fantastic!
Just take these simple rules to heart: Always use really fresh
yeast, don't let it get in direct contact with salt or fat and keep the covered bowl with the
dough rising in a warm and draft free spot.
If the
dough didn't rise a bit within 1.5 hours, it looks like your
yeast wasn't «alive» anymore.
I have a quick question though, when preparing the pre
dough, I
did all the steps that you advised, adding the
yeast to the well filed with milk.
I
do not recommend freezing
yeast bread
dough, unbaked.
Below freezing, the
yeast may be dormant and may actually die (which is why you don't want to freeze raw
yeasted dough).
The
dough is way too wet and doesn't rise much at all so I figured it must be the tangzhong /
yeast.
WELL i am till trying, ordered in a good stand mixer, use the paddle beater use 9 × 5 pan got a new oven thermometer to make sure oven calibrated right, thermometer to test doneness of bread proofed the
dough no more then 20 minutes left bread in oven turned off for awhileafter testing over 200 before getting out bread still didnot raise as high as yours
did but it was above pan tested water heat for
yeast etc and bread still fell, i have tried this several times and am abt at my rids end what i could be
doing wrong
When baking
yeast breads, carefully watch that the
dough does not rise more than double its bulk.
If it doesn't it may be that the
dough has risen too much or too fast during the first rise, depleting the food for the
yeast, basically stopping the fermentation process.
It's hard to find a nice warm place to stow my
dough to allow that
yeast to
do its job.
You know, making bread requires plenty of patience and leaving the
dough to rise and letting the
yeast do its job.
These are made with
yeasted, whole wheat
dough similar to that used in my spinach fatayer recipe — it doesn't use traditional samosa maida flour or empanada lard, but becomes wonderfully fluffy while remaining sturdy enough to hold in all those fillings.
Sift the flour into large bowl, add eggs, salt,
yeast and milk, butter mixture and knead until
dough is uniform and
does not stick to the hands.
I'm having trouble figuring out when I'll be able to
do it based on timing, though... is there any point at which the
dough can sit longer than it is supposed to (e.g., could I wait significantly longer than 10 minutes before mixing up the
dough after getting the
yeast / water ready?
Like you suggested, though, I've also found that it's also more likely to happen when the
dough has more
yeast (though I think you still
did the right thing by doubling it exactly!)
To be honest I don't think the
yeast is necessary to start this or any other sour
dough culture.
This gluten free English muffin bread is an interesting example of
yeast bread: it is a very wet
dough that you don't really shape in the «traditional» sense.