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Is there anything special one needs to do when doubling a bread recipe?
Does one just use twice as much of everthing? I am a novice. After about three tries, and some adjustments, I finally settled on a multi-grain bread recipe that I (and my family) like. It ends up with the texture of "regular" sandwich bread. But, my recipe only makes two loaves. Yesterday, I doubled the recipe and instead of ending up with 4 clones of the nice loaves I had made before, I ended up with 4 pretty dense, semi-risen loaves. Edible but heavy. Here's my basic process: I mix the dough, let it rest for 20 minutes, add the salt & knead it, let it rise, shape it into loaves, let the loaves rise, and then bake. I use rapid rise yeast. The only thing I noticed this time around that struck me as different is that when I "rested" the dough, the dough had noticeably risen. I am sure I let it rest around the same amount of time. I'm not saying that this is the only thing that was actually different, I am pretty new to this, so I may simply overlooked some key thing. Any ideas about what I goofed up? |
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