Comments on: Soaked Wheat Sally Fallon-style bread

By: Angela

Angela — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:22:46 +0000

Hi Cara,
I tried this recipe today and it all looked fine up until I put it in the oven. The dough was runny, but you said yours was very wet. I baked it for 35 minutes and basically the bread was really brown and crispy on top, but totally liquid underneath. ( I took photos if you’d like a laugh!) Any idea what could have gone wrong? I have this problem pretty much any time I try and soak my flour; the dough is just too wet, even though I follow the recipe exactly. I really want to make soaked bread work, but I’m getting close to giving up!
Angela

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By: Cara

Cara — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:18:33 +0000

That’s great that you’re using freshly milled flour! Bread machine cycles are quick and hot- whole wheat flour is usually going to require a longer rise than they allow. Baking bread does heat up the house quite a bit… I wonder if you could set the machine to the ‘dough’ cycle, then allow it to rise as it needs to (even up to 4 hours) at room temp, then somehow manually trick the bread machine into cooking from there?

By: Colleen

Colleen — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:57:10 +0000

Hi Cara, I’ve been following your blog for a few months now–love it! I’ve got a grain mill in the mail on its way to me and I’m so excited! This weekend, however, I got some freshly milled flour from the farmer’s market and had some disappointing results. I made the bread in my bread machine (my strategy for summer bread baking as it doesn’t heat up the house), but it didn’t rise properly and was very dense. I did a soaker (in the machine, left overnight, timed to finish at 7 am) of the flour mixed with kefir and water.

Have you had any similar results using your home-milled flour? Any suggestions?

Thanks for any insight you can share!

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