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See, this is one reason I never mix dough by machine. Am I a tad masochistic, or is my latent perfectionism rearing its ugly head? Sure, it could be a combination of the two, but I learned, through trial and error, how to get the consistency of raised breads just the way I like them. (It's called being an utterly broke college student too poor to buy even store-bought bread.) I don't know what a well-made dough looks like in the mixer bowl, but I sure know what it feels like in my hands. Sorry, I'm just opining and have nothing useful to add....  | |||
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I'm in your camp on the feel thing. I prefer to do it by hand. | |||
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Can I come visit? | |||
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You need to hurry. Two-dozen lasts me about 6 days.  | |||
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Heh. I didn't do breaky or lunch for them. They're big boys. If they get to stay home with me on a snow day, if they think they can mess up the house I cleaned Sunday, if they think it's cool to leave their dirty clothes all over, if they can play MY CHeMiCaL RoMaNcE & that God-AwFuL carpy BlUeGrAsS all bloody day long at maxoid volume .... THEN they're SO on their own scrounging for fOoD !! Okay then. I'm calm. You're red mixer rocks Jodi. Had to mention that.  | |||
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We have the monster grey mixer too, but we do bread by hand. I like kneading it by hand, although tfd makes most of the bread around here. Real bread, I mean, not Doug dough.  For breakfast bread you gotta do it the previous day and do the last rise overnight, then pop -em in the oven. Unless you want do do a Chickgrand-style all-nighter. | |||
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You can do the third rise in the pan, in the refrigerator overnight. It takes longer, but 8 hours or so should do it unless you refrigerator is so cold it's like one degree short of freezing. YMMV. | |||
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How long did it take you to build the fire in the wood stove? Big Al | |||
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*snort* I was waiting for a description of how he pulled on the ol' lindsey-woolsey shirt, personally. | |||
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Chickgrand on the back forty:   | |||
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My sister makes a lot of bread; I know that the type of flour you use can make a difference; some are more gluteny than others, etc. King Arthur Flour has a website, and they sell lots of types of flour, for different stuff. Might be worth looking into. I don't know much about making bread, but my family sits around and drools while we're waiting for my sister's bread to come out of the oven. | |||
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Shoot. This thread makes me wish I were back in Canada where we had a bread/pizza oven built into our masonry heater. We have yet to try it out for lack of a stone or proper bread baking dish. I love the no knead recipe. Will have to try it here. Rick, your cinnamon roll recipe looks mouthwatering! How long does it take you from start to end? | |||
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Well, I have a  Jodi | |||
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Speaking of flour wt Somebody told me you can just substitute all purpose flour less 2 tablespoons. Anybody know? | |||
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