Hello, Darlings
If you are among my long time followers, then you know that when it comes to baking bread I recommend adding to teaspoon of wheat gluten to the recipe.
Well today, I nearly had a baking disaster because I forgot to add the gluten to the Hamilton Beach two-pounder white bread recipe. The dough was about to start its third kneading cycle when it dawned on me that there was no gluten in the dough.
In a near panic, I removed the dough from the bread maker, and kneaded in the gluten by hand. I then rolled the dough in a little more flour because it felt sticky. After shaping the dough for its return to the bread maker, I set it to the dough setting, so that that the gluten could be kneaded into the dough properly.
When the bread maker started its third rising cycle, I removed the bread pan with the dough inside and placed it in my hot clothes dryer for 40 minutes, to which, afterwards the dough rose to nearly the top of the bread pan. Once the dough had risen, I placed the bread pan back into the bread maker, and set it to the bake cycle. I let the bread bake for an hour. Once the cycle was done, I set the bread maker on the bake cycle again to bake the bread an additional ten minutes to ensure its doneness.
As a result of all this, not only did I save the bread, it is the tastiest loaf of white bread that I made using my Hamilton Beach bread maker so far, and I credit my quick thinking and my GE clothes dryer for my successful white bread rescue.
Until, next time,
Chow, Darlings
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