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When Life gives you Lemons....

Saturday bake-along started at 2am for me making my Christmas 🎄 Bread. I had multiple issues...dough didn't rise after 10hrs even after putting in proofer for a couple of hours. I decided to shape the dough and proofed for 3 addtl hours. No rise. Put in oven and baked. Looked decent and was hopeful until I cut through the dough. The middle was raw. Genius me decided to put in oven for longer and the middle just remained Gooey and crust on outside cooked too hard.

After posting for the community

@Sandy Chong

suggested it might have been the inclusions. I got to thinking and believe this attributed to the soggy middle. I actually put same amount of currants in place of raisins. Too much ! Currants are smaller and I should have cut the grams in half. Instead, I used gram for gram. The structure just could not hold the currants. My dough tore during shaping and I patched it together like the surgeon I am🤣.

@Sourdough Atalier By TUĞBA Tuğba ETİ

Chef Tugba 👩‍🍳suggested an alternative of Biscotti and also gave me invaluable pointers of knowing when the dough is cooked through without the thermometer. A skewer through the bottom middle and if comes out clean then the bake is done and also if the 🍞 Bread loaf sounds hollow when tapping it. All signs the bread is done.

Here is my Sourdough Christmas Bread 🍞 Biscotti:) Not perfect but tasty. Thank you

@Sourdough Atalier By TUĞBA Tuğba ETİ

Happy baking everyone!

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When Life gives you Lemons....