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Soak:
You can soak the cereal for a different amount of time, depending on how soft you want it to be. From a few hours to 48 hours. Then the cereal can be ground with a blender or in a meat grinder.
You can soak in the morning - in the evening, make the dough.
You can steam the cereal with boiling water, hot water and leave it to swell for several hours.
I used in one of the breads (I don't remember the recipe where) ready-made cereal porridge in meat broth !!! Very good bread turned out !!!
But for me, the best option is when the cereals are soaked in cold liquid!
Everything is learned in comparison, try the options!
Types of cereals, additives and their amount:I use a variety of combinations of cereals, grains, flakes and grains (hereinafter "grains").
The proportions of grain can be different, and the combinations are also different 1-2-3-4, etc., how much you can afford to taste and how much is available.
At the same time, it is necessary to take into account what effect can occur from these grains, their influence on the finished result. For example, rice and rolled oats dry the dough, the finished bread is crumbly and dries quickly. Therefore, these grains need to be added to the dough less than others.
It is not necessary to make the proportions of grain 1x1x1, you can take your own proportions, depending on your preferences for certain grains and cereals. Although the dough with the addition of oatmeal turns out to be so plastic and grateful in processing !!!
Dough additives:
You can make various additions to the dough.
For example, yesterday I added 1 tsp of spicy bread mixture to the batch - a very good result!
You can add flax seeds and others to taste.
The use of lactic acid products when kneading cereals:
I like to use aged lactic acid foods for soaking, the dough is much better and the sour milk picks up grains and the dough well.
Read more about this here: Using aged cottage cheese in bread dough.
https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/index.php@option=com_smf&topic=45260.0Amount of grains and flour:The amount of cereals and flour is regulated only by your desire to get large or small bread in size and weight.
We start with the amount of cereals and the amount of liquid for soaking them.
If, for example, we take 4 types of 40 grams of cereals, then we add water (liquid) so much to cover the cereals with it completely and they could still absorb this liquid and remain very moist during the swelling time. I'm not talking about the amount of liquid, since it depends on the absorbency of the grain, but you just don't need to overdo it. The more water (liquid), the more flour you will have to add to the dough.
In my example (recipe), it took 400 ml of liquid (fermented baked milk + whey) to swell the cereals. Cereals take more liquid than just fine flour!
Flour: the amount of flour depends on the moisture content of the grain mass (soaked). We put the wet mass in a bucket, add another liquid (for example, liquid honey, butter) and then start pouring flour as much as the bun requires. For example, in my recipe, I immediately add 300 grams of flour to a bucket, and then another 4-5 tbsp. l flour during the first batch of dough.
We work according to the "flour in water" principle.
I gave you an example of working with cereals. You will take your amount of cereals, and of course, add your amount of liquid and flour.
As an example, I suggest you look at my other bread recipe based on the same principle of dough preparation:
Wheat-rye bread made from dispersed grain and cereals from Admin.
https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/index.php@option=com_smf&topic=8391.0
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