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Success:) (Corn Bread)
"JohnJohn" > wrote in message
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> On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 11:19:27 +0100, "Ophelia"
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>>"graham" > wrote in message
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>>> On 15/10/2014 1:29 PM, Ophelia wrote:
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>>>> "graham" > wrote in message
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>>>>> On 15/10/2014 1:08 PM, Ophelia wrote:
>>>>>> The loaf I made today is a great colour and dh *loves* the
>>>>>> flavour
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>>>>>>
>>>>>> It didn't rise much and is fairly dense, but I didn't really hope for
>>>>>> a
>>>>>> good
>>>>>> rise since it was half corn and half bread flour . BUT he says the
>>>>>> flavour
>>>>>> is even better than the one we bought from the baker which started me
>>>>>> off on
>>>>>> this experiment! Needless to say, I am very pleased
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>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have gluten on order and when it arrives, I will try it out in the
>>>>>> same
>>>>>> recipe. If anyone can tell me the quantity of gluten to use with x
>>>>>> grams
>>>>>> of *** I would be very grateful!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Many thanks to EVERYONE who joined this thread with suggestions and
>>>>>> advice,
>>>>>> I am very grateful and have saved the recipes which I hope to work
>>>>>> through
>>>>>> in the future
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>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you all once again
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>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best
>>>>>>
>>>>>> O
>>>>>>
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>>>>> I don't think I would add any more than to take the bread flour up to
>>>>> extra-strong bread flour. So that would be about 2g gluten per 100g of
>>>>> bread flour.
>>>>
>>>> What about the corn? That is what I am trying to cover.
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>>> I'm not sure if adding gluten to the corn meal would help. However, it
>>> might be worth adding 12grams per hundred as a trial.
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>>I will do that. Not sure when my gluten is due to arrived but I will use
>>it
>>soonest and report back
Actually it doesn't seem to matter because dh
>>now
>>tells me he prefers dense bread! Heh who knew??? After all these years
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> So the question now is how dense you like your husbands
I wouldn't know because my husband is MORE than bright
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