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Converting bread recipes for an overnight rise?
There are no strict formulas or conversions, the mathematics of bread baking are too complex for such predictions.
Rising at room temperature overnight is not recommended, it is generally way too warm ...
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Is there a bread you can mix in the evening, leave overnight, and bake in morning?
It seems the main thing you're trying to do is avoid any work in the morning before bake. As suggested in comments, the easiest way to do that is to get a mechanical bread-maker. Since you say you'...
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Converting bread recipes for an overnight rise?
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There are apps for calculating the ingredients for overnight rise. For example, I use PizzApp which has yeast ratios for long rises, either at room temp or ...
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Is there a bread you can mix in the evening, leave overnight, and bake in morning?
The main problem with your method is the fact that leaving bread out to rise at room temperature for 8+ hours almost always leads to overproofing.
Overproofing usually means the gluten formation has ...
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Is there a bread you can mix in the evening, leave overnight, and bake in morning?
There are many bread recipes that can be made up ahead and put into the refrigerator to rise slowly for several hours or overnight. Some standard recipes can be adapted to this method, but you may ...
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Is there a bread you can mix in the evening, leave overnight, and bake in morning?
Try this (no-knead bread).
I have done it a few times, and it is great. One thing to note though is that I used parchment paper inside the dutch oven as per instructions on a different site, and it ...
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Can I store bread dough overnight?
You can even form bread rolls from the dough, and put on an oven tray, in the fridge. Then, when you get up in the morning, take the bread out of the fridge, switch on th oven, and ten minutes later ...
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Is there a bread you can mix in the evening, leave overnight, and bake in morning?
Yes, this is the oldest way to make bread for the morning - you just need to use less yeast to avoid "over proving". My recipe below is for an enriched loaf but for a "traditional" ...
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Converting bread recipes for an overnight rise?
This is not strictly an answer but I though I would add this (I have no problem removing this answer if it is too off topic).
One thing I do when baking bread is combining equal amounts of flour and ...
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Is there a bread you can mix in the evening, leave overnight, and bake in morning?
If you are just wanting to throw together a loaf of bread in the morning without having to deal with the timing on rising, etc. try a beer bread (example). I bake one that takes about 45 minutes, and ...
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Is there a bread you can mix in the evening, leave overnight, and bake in morning?
Bagels are supposed to be left in the refrigerator over night to "cold ferment". The only catch is that you have to dunk them in boiling malt water then bake them. And bagels are a bit more intensive ...
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