Bread Lasts Longer with This Old-Time Technique | Potato Sponge Bread

Bread Lasts Longer with This Old-Time Technique | Potato Sponge Bread
Homemade bread that lasts over a week – 10 days – or even longer! Banish moldy bread! Use the old-time sponging technique to improve fermentation of your bread dough so that your bread stores longer without molding. And take advantage of a precious ingredient you are pouring down the drain to improve your bread even further: potato water! That’s right, making a bread sponge and using water leftover from boiling potatoes will make soft, fluffy bread with complex flavors that lasts much longer in a cool cupboard. It’s easy! If you’ve sworn off sourdough, you should try this! There’s no commitment to keeping a starter alive.

➡️ Printable recipe: https://chocolateboxcottage.tv/videos...

➡️ Blog post with more ideas for making homemade bread last: https://chocolateboxcottage.tv/videos...

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➡️🕰 VIDEO OUTLINE:
0:00 Intro to the sponge method
1:55 Using potato water
2:40 Making the sponge
3:51 Mix the bread dough
5:12 Special tip to keep dough from climbing the hook
5:40 Kneading with a KitchenAid mixer
6:32 Is my bread dough done kneading?
6:59 Now it’s done kneading
7:52 Windowpane test
8:21 How to give your bread dough better structure
9:17 Is my bread done rising? The poke test
10:09 Shaping dough into loaves
12:37 Is my bread ready to bake? The touch test
13:05 Bake the bread
13:16 Is my bread done baking?
13:50 Special tip for soft crust sandwich bread
14:21 Cutting the bread
14:54 Special holiday tip: save the potato water!
15:18 Pretty pictures from Chocolate Box Cottage

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