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Fermenting your dough

January 14, 2011 Melissa 3 Comments

Fermenting your dough or letting it rise the first time is critical to having a light and airy loaf of bread. If you were to knead you dough and then immediately shape it and bake it would turn out like a hockey puck, very dense with little to no oven spring. During fermentation, … [Read more...]

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