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tahir

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Posted: Thu Dec 09, 04 5:25 pm Post subject: Yeasty bread
The missus has finally started making bread, the rewsults are a nice dense loaf, but it smells and tastes very yeasty, she's reduced the amount she uses but it's still the same, what's the problem?

alison
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Posted: Thu Dec 09, 04 7:07 pm Post subject:
What is the problem, that is what homemade bread is like. I have tried with instant yeast, dried yeast and yeast and the bread is always yeasty. We like it. You will get used to it.

tahir

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Posted: Thu Dec 09, 04 7:13 pm Post subject:
I like it too, just thought it seemed overtly yeasty so maybe we were doing something wrong

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Thu Dec 09, 04 9:53 pm Post subject:
I've never really noticed, but then I have eaten home made bread for most of my life. Someone at work yesterday notices it was homemade in my sandwiches as he could smell it was yeasty.

cab

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Posted: Fri Dec 10, 04 10:49 am Post subject:
Heavy and too-yeasty can be the result of not enough gluten in the flour (in which case I usually put a spoonfull of gluten or bread improver in it), not enough time proving, or a dough being a bit too wet. If it was well risen before baking, my guess is that the bread flour isn't 'strong' enough; it'll vary between batches of flour.

tahir

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Posted: Fri Dec 10, 04 10:51 am Post subject:
It was a mix of 2/3 white 1/3 wholemeal Doves strong flour

cab

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Posted: Fri Dec 10, 04 12:58 pm Post subject:
Hmmm... Doves Farm is the flour we use, and in the last month we've been finding that the malted wholegrain flour has been sinking (never used to, it's the new batch of flour). We've taken to adding flour conditioner stuff (the dough improver stuff with some vitamin c and some extra gluten) and that's sorted it nicely for us.

tahir

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Posted: Fri Dec 10, 04 1:00 pm Post subject:
It's been the missus doing it, so I'd have to talk to her about it. Tastes good though, especially toasted, can't see us going back to shop bought had some last night with home made garlic butter

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