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adding butter to bread dough

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Old rye baking book: no sourdough?

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Recent comments

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culinarick

Your plan to experiment with

14 hours 54 min ago

on adding butter to bread dough

therearenotenou...

Just as for panettone

15 hours 29 min ago

on adding butter to bread dough

gavinc

Yes it is Tom. I only mix by

16 hours 28 min ago

on adding butter to bread dough

tpassin

It can be hard to work it in

16 hours 35 min ago

on adding butter to bread dough

gavinc

Hi,I regularly make white

16 hours 36 min ago

on Old rye baking book: no...

alcophile

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on Greetings from Auburn, Alabama

Williamtrimitoe

I like the taste

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on Red Rye Malt

alcophile

Thanks for posting the

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on ROFCO B40 oven for sale

Sostendorf

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on why is my dough so slack?

culinarick

You could try increasing the

1 day 4 hours ago

on Red Rye Malt

albacore

I had thought that kilned

1 day 5 hours ago

on Rising in cooler -- why didn...

marcy goldman

Coolers for final dough

1 day 13 hours ago

on adding butter to bread dough

Davey1

I forgot - addin In the

1 day 13 hours ago

on adding butter to bread dough

Davey1

Melting and adding evenly is

1 day 13 hours ago

on adding butter to bread dough

Abe

Everything can be added at...

Bread Browser

Perfectly executed Kaiser rolls.

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