[Sca-cooks] made my first loaf of bread

Ian Kusz sprucebranch at gmail.com
Sat May 15 23:44:54 PDT 2010


Oh, and thanks for the information.

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Ian Kusz <sprucebranch at gmail.com> wrote:

> It was a mixture of bread flour and buckwheat flour.  I only added about
> 1/3 buckwheat, substituting it for a similar amount of bread flour.\
>
> And I like the flavor of malt, was wondering about using it to flavor my
> bread.
>
>   On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Terry Decker <t.d.decker at att.net>wrote:
>
>> Hmmm, mealy.  I assume this is a basic wheat bread.  If so, I'd say either
>> you have the wrong ratio of liquid to solid or the dough did not get
>> thoroughly mixed and kneaded.
>>
>> There are two forms of malt used in baking, dry powdered malt (usually
>> diastatic malt AKA diamalt) or liquid malt extract.  The powder provides
>> additional enzymes which help break down the wheat starch into usable sugars
>> and improves the rise.  One or two teaspoons of diamalt (for a two loaf
>> recipe) blended into the flour before mixing the solids and liquids helps
>> improve the rise without altering the flavor.  Much more and you pick up the
>> flavor of the malt.  Malt extract is commonly used as a sweetener that
>> replaces sugar or honey in a bread recipe.
>>
>> There is an argument as to whether diastatic malt (enhanced by additional
>> diatase) or non-diastatic malt does best for bread.  Diamalt with too much
>> diatase produces additional liquefied starch and dexetrins which in turn can
>> reduce the water holding capacity of the dough and permit it to slacken in
>> the rise.  Non-diastatic malt requires more malt be added to produce the
>> required effects.
>>
>> Malted milk, which is commonly used in malted milkshakes, is a mixture of
>> malt powder, wheat flour and dried milk solids.  No reason it can't be used
>> in baking, but non-diastatic or diastatic malt should give you better
>> results.
>>
>> Bear
>>
>>
>> Anyone know how to make it less mealy?
>>> Also, has anyone used "malt," the stuff you use in a malted milkshake, in
>>> baking?
>>>
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>>> Ian of Oertha
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