Hi there,
I've been trying to make pain de mie in my KA mixer with the dough hook. So this is what happens , when I start mixing on low at the beginning when the dough starts to from it pulls away from the bowl and wraps around the hook nicely (after about 2min), but as i keep kneading on low the dough eventually just puddles on the bottom. I just let the dough hook keep kneading for the amount of time called for in the recipe which is a total of 15 min on low. But the dough never does pull away from the bottom. At the end of 15min i just pull the dough out of the bowl and shape it into a ball for it to rise. I tried to do the window pane test but I don't feel it's a reliable test for me. I've had failed window pane tests where the final product turns out just fine. My loaf is in the oven now, so i guess i'll find out soon if the dough had developed enough but i find that it's not only with this recipe that I have this problem with. I always get a nice ball of dough after the first few minutes then it ends up just puddling at the bottom. I've adjusted the setting for the dough hook already so I don't think it's that.
Thank you for any insight you may have
LL