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adding butter to bread dough

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Old rye baking book: no sourdough?

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Williamtrimitoe

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The Roadside Pi...

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culinarick

Your plan to experiment with

11 hours 42 min ago

on adding butter to bread dough

therearenotenou...

Just as for panettone

12 hours 18 min ago

on adding butter to bread dough

gavinc

Yes it is Tom. I only mix by

13 hours 16 min ago

on adding butter to bread dough

tpassin

It can be hard to work it in

13 hours 23 min ago

on adding butter to bread dough

gavinc

Hi,I regularly make white

13 hours 24 min ago

on Old rye baking book: no...

alcophile

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on Greetings from Auburn, Alabama

Williamtrimitoe

I like the taste

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on Red Rye Malt

alcophile

Thanks for posting the

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on ROFCO B40 oven for sale

Sostendorf

19 hours 45 min ago

on why is my dough so slack?

culinarick

You could try increasing the

1 day 1 hour ago

on Red Rye Malt

albacore

I had thought that kilned

1 day 2 hours ago

on Rising in cooler -- why didn...

marcy goldman

Coolers for final dough

1 day 9 hours ago

on adding butter to bread dough

Davey1

I forgot - addin In the

1 day 10 hours ago

on adding butter to bread dough

Davey1

Melting and adding evenly is

1 day 10 hours ago

on adding butter to bread dough

Abe

Everything can be added at...

Bread Browser

Perfectly executed Kaiser rolls.

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adding potato to bread dough

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