Bread tip: Baby it's cold outside

[Guest guest]

Unless you live in a warmer area than southwest Georgia, it is cold outside.

Even normal house temperatures can be a little on the cool side for bread to

raise, unless it is one of those recipes that are designed to do their raising

overnight in the refrigerator.

 

Here are a couple of things I have done in the past, including what I am doing

right now in my cold kitchen.

 

Knead bread, place in oiled bowl twice the size of the bread dough. Cover the

bowl with plastic wrap and place the bowl over a pot of hot water, making

certain that the bowl with the dough does not touch the water (which may be too

hot for the yeast). Cover the bowl and pot with a dish or small hand towel.

 

If you just finished drying clothes, put the well covered bowl in the dryer. I

really don't suggest that you turn it on, however.

 

I have seen where some folk zap the dough in the microwave but I don't use one.

Call me a chicken but so far I have had 2 of them literally blow up on me. Yes,

boom, door flying off, noise....I don't do micronukers now.

 

If the bowl you have your dough in is larger than your crock pot and will sit

securely on the top, turn the crock pot onto low and put the bowl of bread dough

on top of that. Cover with a towel and let it raise.

 

Most ovens heat way too high to let bread raise without killing the yeast before

it raises. But I have turned it onto it's lowest setting, 170* F, then turned

it off and put the covered and towel wrapped bowl of dough on the door, giving

it a shot of heat now and then when the temperature drops. That really isn't

the most economical way to raise your bread.

 

My favorite way is the easiest, though. I put a heating pad on the counter and

place a folded towel on top of that, then the wrapped bowl of dough on top of

that and let it raise. It's what I am doing right now since I'm using the

dryer.....Guess it was a good idea to not put the dough in there after all.

 

Today's bread is Monkey Bread but no animals were harmed in its making. (balls

of sweet dough rolled in butter then sugar and cinnamon and placed in large

angel food cake pan or bundt pan.

 

Love and hugs, Jeanne in GA

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Ah, back in the good ole days when I baked all our own breads my fool

proof place to rise dough was on a towel, covered with a cloth, on the

heated waterbed!!!

 

SuSim

 

, treazure noname

<treazured wrote:

>

> Unless you live in a warmer area than southwest Georgia, it is cold

outside. Even normal house temperatures can be a little on the cool

side for bread to raise, unless it is one of those recipes that are

designed to do their raising overnight in the refrigerator.

>

> Here are a couple of things I have done in the past, including what

I am doing right now in my cold kitchen.

>

> Knead bread, place in oiled bowl twice the size of the bread dough.

Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and place the bowl over a pot of hot

water, making certain that the bowl with the dough does not touch the

water (which may be too hot for the yeast). Cover the bowl and pot

with a dish or small hand towel.

>

> If you just finished drying clothes, put the well covered bowl in

the dryer. I really don't suggest that you turn it on, however.

>

> I have seen where some folk zap the dough in the microwave but I

don't use one. Call me a chicken but so far I have had 2 of them

literally blow up on me. Yes, boom, door flying off, noise....I don't

do micronukers now.

>

> If the bowl you have your dough in is larger than your crock pot and

will sit securely on the top, turn the crock pot onto low and put the

bowl of bread dough on top of that. Cover with a towel and let it

raise.

>

> Most ovens heat way too high to let bread raise without killing the

yeast before it raises. But I have turned it onto it's lowest

setting, 170* F, then turned it off and put the covered and towel

wrapped bowl of dough on the door, giving it a shot of heat now and

then when the temperature drops. That really isn't the most

economical way to raise your bread.

>

> My favorite way is the easiest, though. I put a heating pad on the

counter and place a folded towel on top of that, then the wrapped bowl

of dough on top of that and let it raise. It's what I am doing right

now since I'm using the dryer.....Guess it was a good idea to not put

the dough in there after all.

>

> Today's bread is Monkey Bread but no animals were harmed in its

making. (balls of sweet dough rolled in butter then sugar and

cinnamon and placed in large angel food cake pan or bundt pan.

>

> Love and hugs, Jeanne in GA

>

>

>

> Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Mobile.

Try it now.

>

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