Adeena and Debbie Sadler - bread recipe question

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Adeena and Debbie (Sadler)

I tried Adeena's bread recipe in my Zogurushi - the one that you both have great results with. The flavor was good, but it was doughy/undercooked - at the edges rather than in the middle.

The Zogurushi is programmable, so I think I programmed it to mix for 15 minutes (it might have been 18) and then bake for 1 hour and 10 minutes. Could you tell me how long your mix cycle was when you made the bread in your respective machines? I am thinking I need to either increase the mix time or add some rise time, but I'm not sure which. If I understood your original instructions correctly, you went directly from mixing to baking with no rise time.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I am trying hard to come up with a bread machine bread that doesn't come from a mix. My kids love the Dr. Schar's bread from the Mix B but it is SOOOO EXPENSIVE!

Thanks!

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Hi !

Your programming sounds about right. Did you select a dark

crust? I think dark works better than regular. Lately,

I've been removing the paddle once it's done mixing, then pushing the

dough down with a spatula. Does your machine heat while it's

mixing? Mine does, because it's a " rapid " cycle. So

everything is nice and warm before it starts baking when I push it down.

Also - try baking it at 370 for 1 hour 20 minutes instead. That works here, too.

Originally, I just used the preset " grain bread " setting when I started

making this loaf. But, I found that I didn't need the dough to

have a " rise " (for me, it rises during the baking time) to get a good

loaf. But, maybe you should try that to see if it works for

you. I just played with this recipe (and actually, I still do!

until I found one that worked good for me! I hope you can figure

out the changes you need so it works for you, too.

~Adeena

Adeena and Debbie (Sadler)

I tried Adeena's bread recipe in my Zogurushi - the one that you

both have great results with. The flavor was good, but it was

doughy/undercooked - at the edges rather than in the middle. -- " I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. " ~Jane Austen