Where did I go wrong making this bread? It won't rise!?!
Honey Oatmeal Bread
Ingredients:
1/8 cup yeast
? cup hot water (105°-110°)
1 ? cup quick oats
3 cups water
1/3 cup melted butter
1 ? tbsp. salt
? cup honey
7 ? cups flour
In a bowl mix yeast and water and let stand. Mix next five ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Add yeast and water mixture. Mix together. Add flour. Set to rise. Divide dough and knead. Shape into three loaves and put into greased standard loaf pans. Let rise. Bake at 325° for 35 minutes. Optional: Coat top of loaves with egg white mixture and oats before baking
Answers: I prepared the dough yesterday around noon time and I let it sit. When a couple hours went by and nothing happened, I put it in the fridge overnight so I could deal with it in the morning. Then this morning STILL nothing. So I turned the oven to WARM and let it sit sporadically in the heat. Hours later.. Nothing. So I tried adding another yeast mixture. This is extremely frustrating. The dough is exactly the same. Very sticky and moist. HELP!
Honey Oatmeal Bread
Ingredients:
1/8 cup yeast
? cup hot water (105°-110°)
1 ? cup quick oats
3 cups water
1/3 cup melted butter
1 ? tbsp. salt
? cup honey
7 ? cups flour
In a bowl mix yeast and water and let stand. Mix next five ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Add yeast and water mixture. Mix together. Add flour. Set to rise. Divide dough and knead. Shape into three loaves and put into greased standard loaf pans. Let rise. Bake at 325° for 35 minutes. Optional: Coat top of loaves with egg white mixture and oats before baking
was the yeast expired? it sounds like it.
what i do when i make bread is that I add the warm water (not hot) to the yeast, stir let it sit for a couple of mins then add 1 teaspoon sugar (it "feeds" the yeast) let sit for a few more mins. It will be all frothy then I add that to the dry ingredients etc...
after the dough is mixed I put it into a big greased bowl cover with a towel and let rise for an hour then I knead the dough and make the loaves cover with the towel again and let rise for another 30 mins then bake until done
trwo things: your yeast is dead or you did not have enough sugar to feed the yeast.
I can't find anything wrong with the recipe, so my next guess would be that your yeast is too old. Either that or you're killing it with water that is too hot. Make sure the water is comfortably warm against your wrist before you add it to the yeast, like baby's formula.
2 things ....your yeast was dead or the water was to hot....
Its ALWAYS a good idea to proof your yeast....its a bummer to go though all that work for nothing.
add yeast to warm water add 1 Tbsp of sugar...it should bubble within 5 mins if its still ok to use.
If your yeast was ok, it might be you used water that was too hot. Did you check the temp? Should be like for a baby bottle. Just warm.
Gee I just noticed you need sugar in the water for the yeast to feed on to grow.
If you used the wrong temperature of water with the yeast it won't rise. Did the yeast foam up and grow?
The water should be lukewarm - run it onto your wrist and if it feels neither hot nor cold it is perfect. Yeast, lukewarm water, sugar let stand for 10 minutes.
S U G A R - you need it in the water with the yeast to grow it.
no
I bet that your yeast was old and it didn't activate.
The first step should read " In a bowl, mix yeast and hot water and let stand". If you mixed All of the water (including the other 3 cups) in with the yeast, it probably didn't proof. Also if that 1/2 cup of water was too cold or too hot (remember your internal temp is 98.6 so this water should be warmer, but no where near the boiling temp of 212) , the yeast probably didn't proof. Did you knead the bread to get the gluten going? Is it humid in your home? The proportions on the recipe look like they should be okay.
Sorry I couldn't help more.
mabye the yeats is bad or your dough got a chill
I dont know for sure but I think your yeast is old or the water is too hot.
Besides the previously mentioned problems with yeast, you may have put it in a place to rise that was too cool or in a draft the first time. Turn the oven on just long enough for your hand to feel heat and then turn it off. Put the bread in a bowl covered with a towel with the door ajar. The light of the oven will provide some warmth to the oven to help the dough rise. You may have had the oven too warm by turning it on while the dough was in it the second time you tried to get it to rise.
Do NOT use a plastic bowl for letting dough rise because it does not retain heat. If using packaged yeast,check the package before using to be sure it is not beyond the expiration date.
You forgot the dill. Otherwise your dough will never rise.
did you cover the bread when it was supposed to rise, or did you just leave it in a bowl, because it needs a tight, tight seal to rise.