March 24, 2024 - 9:08pm
Struggling with Whole Wheat
What's happening people.
I've been making my kids this milk bread for about a year now. They can't get enough of it. Lately I've been attempting to sneak in a certain percentage of whole wheat. Suddenly the dough seems temperamental, that and the way the loaves turn out after the oven spring is... well... disastrous. I do make a lot of bread but really I'm a novice. I'm looking for a solution, or maybe I'm just wondering what I should be doing differently now that I'm mixing roughly 20% whole wheat flour in. Maybe less yeast and a longer rise? Maybe an overnight in the fridge?
For God's sake someone help me!... I can't stand these ugly loaves (even thought the bread is still delicious).
Ciao.
-- Deej