February 26, 2022 - 5:05am
Getting dough to rise and form properly
I'm fairly new to bread making but I'm having problems getting the dough to rise and form. I'm doing as plain of a recipe as possible, creating toast bread (called formfranska in swedish but couldn't find a good enough translation)
I've uped the recipe a few times, adding more yeast, more milk, more flour and sure, the bread does indeed become bigger and in sort of the form I'm looking for but becomes truly heavy instead.
What am I doing wrong?
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Greetings! It looks as though formfranska is similar to "pain de mie," which can be a bit sticky and hard to form. It sounds like the difficulty is technique.
There are a few good videos out there. This one looks helpful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jabhPaP6RRE
My suggestion would be to watch the video and see at what point you are not getting a similar result. If you are able to get the kind of soft, smooth dough you see at 1:30, the rest should not be hard.
P.S. If you want the plainest and simplest bread possible, you might start here: https://www.thefreshloaf.com/lessons/yourfirstloaf