If your kitchen tends to be a bit drafty like mine, use your oven as a warm, draft free place to rise your bread. While you are preparing your dough for the first rise, turn your oven on the lowest warm setting there is, and turn on the oven light.
You don't want a hot oven - that will damage your yeast at this stage - you only want to create a warm environment for rising. Prepare your bowl of dough for the first rise, spray the top of the dough with non-stick spray, cover it with some plastic wrap, then a clean kitchen towel, turn off the oven, and place the bread bowl into the oven. Check at the minimum rise time.
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It is great that you took the time and effort to put all this basic information here. I bet, we all learned something. I haven't banged my cake batter in the pan before, but I will.
ReplyDeleteThis is a well organized blog.
Hi Chaya! Thanks so much. I've had some time to dedicate to blogging this past year and I hope that it shows.
ReplyDeleteThe pan banging, well, I know... seems silly doesn't it? But it also seems to work! Worth a try anyway, right?