Bread Recipe using Kitchenaid Dough Hook

[jlazar]

Thank you.

[mgaretz]

Here is my Challah recipe:

3.25 cups of flour
1 tbs yeast
¼ cup sugar
1.25 (1 heaping) teaspoon salt
3 large eggs
½ stick of butter
½ cup of water
1 tbs water
sesame seeds (optional)

Put all the dry ingredients in the mixer bowl of a stand mixer with the dough kneading attachment. Run on low for a minute to combine the ingredients.

Put the butter in the 2 cup pyrex measuring cup. Microwave on 50% power (Power level 5) for 1 to 1.5 minutes.

Separate the yolk from one egg, save the white. Add 1 tbs of water to the white. Put the yolk and the other two eggs in the measuring cup with the melted butter and add ½ cup of water. Stir to combine.

Pour into the mixing bowl and run the mixer on low until the dough forms a ball and then let it run another five minutes.

Lightly oil a large bowl. Form the dough into a ball and put in the bowl, turning it to coat it with oil. Cover and let rise until it is doubled in size, 1 to 2 hours. Punch down and let rise again until it’s doubled in size.

Punch down again. Separate the dough into as many equal parts as you want braids. Roll the dough into ropes and braid it. Cover and let rise for 1 hour. Brush with the egg white mixture. Sprinkle with sesame seeds if desired.

Bake in a 375F oven until golden, about 35 minutes.

[Richard Chrz]

So these two loaves are from a KA dough hook for the autolyse mixing, adding the levain, and adding salt, after that I do a few folds by hand, but I do it lay out on aboard, so it is literally stretch it out a bit, and then lightly fold it back together, I can not stretch and fold in a cambro. Plus, I don’t think that is healthy for the dough either.

[RonB]

Very nice lookin' breads.

[treesmacker]

Here is one that I like... it takes sourdough starter...

https://bojongourmet.com/beer-rye-sourdough/

[Richard Chrz]

Showing here now. And great bake!

[jlazar]

I used upload and insert. They show on my desktop and IPad. Will try a reload.

[rickgregory]

jlazar - upload here (Upload Pix button) then insert.

Regardless glad she's having fun with it.

[jlazar]

I don't know how to fix. They are showing on my PC.

[RonB]

Photos aren't showing...

[jlazar]

Thanks for all the advice. My wife is still experimenting with what works best for her. This was her second attempt today using the dough hook.


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This is her no-knead bread which she does without a mixer,


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and her Cinnamon-Raisin Bread, also without a mixer.



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[Donw]

RonB I follow the King Arthur videos and lesson too. However, what I have found, at least when I do it, is that with just using the dough hook you can get pockets of flour that doesn’t get properly hydrated. When you bake, you can get little hard pockets of flour with the consistency of marbles. If you use the paddle first for all mixing those never happen.

[Richard Chrz]

While I truly appreciate the kind words, and I do! I have only been making bread for less then 2 years, and have only pursued a few various loaves so far. I like to think the expert has 10,000 hours of this. I also make good q, but I’m not a pitmaster, I’m a guy that has somewhat figured out the Weber kettle and how to set it up for what I want. But no expert.

[rickgregory]

Also, I’m not an expert of any sort.

Bull. Your loaves are spectacular. 🥖

[Richard Chrz]

I use a dough hook on my kitchen aid, and have developed a way with hand pain, weakness and spasms , to do the following folds. It is my KA that does all the work that otherwise would keep me from making bread. Willing to answer questions. Also, I’m not an expert of any sort. Edited to add, the only real difference in majority of recipes used in a stand mixer vs hand mixed, is y0u need to figure the water temp 10 degrees less from the extra friction heat caused by a stand mixer over hand mixed