Bread Machine Diva » heat http://www.breadmachinediva.com Bread Machine Recipes and More Sun, 05 Sep 2010 02:55:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Heat Wave Baking http://www.breadmachinediva.com/2009/07/heat-wave-baking/ http://www.breadmachinediva.com/2009/07/heat-wave-baking/#comments Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:12:18 +0000 Marsha http://www.breadmachinediva.com/?p=181 As you may know, I live near Seattle, Washington.  This week brought historically high temperatures.  My plan was to bake bread in the “cool” of the morning.  The only problem was that it wasn’t really cool in the morning.   It wasn’t cool for days on end.  The yeast loved the high temperatures.  My sandwich bread [...]]]> As you may know, I live near Seattle, Washington.  This week brought historically high temperatures.  My plan was to bake bread in the “cool” of the morning.  The only problem was that it wasn’t really cool in the morning.   It wasn’t cool for days on end.  The yeast loved the high temperatures.  My sandwich bread rose and rose.  And then it fell.

Fallen Bread

If, heaven forbid, we have another heat wave like this, I’m going to add another quarter of a teaspoon of salt to the dough to deal with the over enthusiastic yeast.

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