Anadama Bread: failed?
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I tried making Anadama Bread. It looked interesting. It also looked like it could do double duty as a sandwich bread…
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I started off making the soaker of cornmeal and water. Mix it and leave it overnight. It smelled really sour the next day…a bit like yoghurt. I was excited. |
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Add the flour, yeast, water and whatever I’ve forgotten to the soaker and mix. This is a sponge. Leave it to proof. |
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Add flour, butter and molasses to the sponge and stir. |
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Now knead on the counter and put in an oiled bowl and leave it to rise for…until it’s doubled. |
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When it’s doubled, separate it into two and shape each piece into a rectangle. Roll up each piece and place in oiled loaf pans.
Then, I was supposed to leave it to proof for…an hour? two? I can’t recall. I was very tired and it was almost 11 pm so the instructions said instead of leaving them to rise, I could put them in the fridge and take them out 4 hours before I bake it. So, I did this. |
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Unfortunately when I took it out of the fridge the next day, it had all flattened out. I don’t know if that mattered. Regardless, I was supposed to leave it to rise until it had crested over the top.
It never did. :-( I put it to bake anyway. |
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And it never rose in the oven either.
But it reached the right temperature. One of the loaves broke coming out of the pan. |
*sigh*
I was so sad.
I guess I can’t get them right all the time.
I wish I knew what I did wrong.
Mom thinks I should have put more yeast or baking powder in the soaker.
She’s probably right.
I need to know my dough…which I don’t know yet.
Also, I think I have a problem with amounts…horrible scale…and I don’t know how my cup measurements are.
Oh well.
I’ll get it eventually.
Now, regardless of how the bread looked it did taste nice. A bit sour. Contrasted nicely with cream cheese. Of course, I don’t know how Anadama bread should taste…
