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Does a recipe need to be adapted?

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Ilse

Does a recipe need to be adapted?

Hello again!

Does my recipe need to be adapted from just mixing the dough by hand to kneading it with a doughmixer?  All my recipes seem to react totally different.

Thanks

Ilse

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MisterTT

but mixing time and procedure will differ. It's hard to make up a general rule since everyone kneads differently, but usually the mixer takes less time to develop the dough than hand kneading. Could elaborate on exactly how differently your recipes react?

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Yerffej

Ilse,

This is one more example of the final bread quality and characteristics resulting as much from technique as from the actual ingredients.  Mixing by machine almost always yields a very different product from the same formula mixed by hand.  Like all else, pay attention, make notes and adjust as you go.  All will be perfect in short order.

Jeff

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Ilse

Thanks everyone - wish me blessings :-)