“Man, this dough is dry,” I thought to myself as I added yet another tablespoon of water to the bread dough I was kneading.<\/p>\n
I mentally reviewed the adjustments I’d made to the recipe<\/a>. <\/p>\n I’d doubled the recipe. No problem there.<\/p>\n I’d used 2 cups of milk instead of 1 cup milk and 1 cup water (got to use up that just-about-to-turn milk!) That could increase liquid needs just a little since milk has a small amount of solids in it. But I’d already added, what? A quarter cup of water?<\/p>\n And the dough was still dry – tons of flour still just sitting on the bottom of my bowl!<\/p>\n I’d used all whole-wheat flour instead of 2\/3 whole wheat, 1\/3 bread – and had added a tablespoon of gluten per recipe to compensate. That might increase water needs a little…but by now I’d added at least a half cup of water!<\/p>\n The only answer I could come up with is that I shouldn’t have measured out all the flour per recipe before kneading. I must have just never noticed that I never ended up needing the full flour allotment, since I usually mixed everything together with just half the flour and then added in a half cup extra flour at a time as I kneaded. <\/p>\n And then my ten minutes of kneading were up and I wet a dishcloth to cover the dough. <\/p>\n That’s when I saw the oil, still in the measuring cup where I’d carefully measured it out.<\/p>\n Half a cup of oil, substituting for four tablespoons of melted butter times two.<\/p>\n No wonder I needed an extra half cup of liquid.<\/p>\n I used the oil for a salad I was making for the evening meal – and let the bread raise and cook as usual.<\/p>\n It turned out fine.<\/p>\n Even so, I’m writing this down as a note to self: When a recipe isn’t quite turning out as you’d expected, check to make sure you included all the ingredients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Man, this dough is dry,” I thought to myself as I added yet another tablespoon of water to the bread dough I was kneading. I mentally reviewed the adjustments I’d made to the recipe. I’d doubled the recipe. No problem there. I’d used 2 cups of milk instead of 1 cup milk and 1 cup … Read more Playing Kitchen Detective<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17126"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17127,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17126\/revisions\/17127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}