I bake bread once or twice a week, more or less on autopilot, and gradually I slide into bad habits. Lately it seems I’ve been letting the dough rise too long. I get a nice rise, punch it down, divide it, let it rise again in the bread pans … and then it falls in the oven.
This time around I determined I would deliberately not make that mistake, even at the risk of making another mistake. I gave it two rises same as usual, but cut the time of both in half regardless of how the dough looked. And here’s how today’s loaves looked compared to a slice from the last batch…
And that seems to have worked.
Very nice Joel…