Have you considered purchasing a Bread Machine?
Lots of used ones around, but do make sure you get the manual and recipe
book that accompanies.

Lots of fun and success for your effort. Caution....waistline may expand if
not careful. :-)
MAC



"Rick" > wrote in message
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> I've recently started venturing into yeast breads after having become
> fairly competent with cakes, cookins, and quickbreads. I'm having
> trouble getting a secondary rise (the initial rise has been
> gangbusters every time so far). I'm using bread flour and
> Fleichmann's dry yeast. I don't know if I'm kneading too long (about
> 10 min), not long enough, whether I should proof the yeast, use AP
> flour, or what. The end results taste just great, but have a texture
> more like quickbread, as opposed to that nice cellular, chewy
> structure I'm after. Any advice is appreciated.
>
> Rick