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   The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 21:52:14 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

   I’ve been making bread with honey instead of sugar for a little while, after trying it randomly and liking the result, but last time I was feeling lazy and decided to chuck sugar in again for speed. It was fine, but I went back to honey this time and yeah, it’s definitely worth it. Not only does it give the crust a richer golden colour, it also seems to make the dough more smooth and delicate somehow. I’m sticking (heh) to honey from now on

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     Mark Riedesel :godot: (klowner@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 22:03:28 JST Mark Riedesel :godot:

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     @sinbad I imagine honey's enzymes make the yeast work a bit harder, I wonder if that's part of it?

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     Jeremiah Fieldhaven (jeremiahfieldhaven@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 22:12:19 JST Jeremiah Fieldhaven

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     @sinbad How're you working out the substitution? Are you using 1g sugar = 1g honey, or by volume?

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     The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 23:40:22 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

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     • Jeremiah Fieldhaven

     @JeremiahFieldhaven I mostly eyeball it, I’ve used about double the volume of honey to what I’d use for sugar (in teaspoons) and it worked out

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     The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 02:28:27 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

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     @JeremiahFieldhaven ha I never looked it up but supposedly you should use less than sugar 😂 oh well - I don’t measure it anyway since I find spooning honey tedious, takes ages, I just squirt a bunch to mix into the warm water.

     I’ve found bread to be highly tolerant of variations to quantities, provided you end up at the right sort of consistency at the end it’s generally fine

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     Dad (geekanddad@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 08:48:42 JST Dad

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     @sinbad Why is there sugar in bread?

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     The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 08:48:42 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

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     @GeekAndDad the yeast feeds on it; it gets some from the wheat but needs a little extra

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     Dad (geekanddad@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 20:10:12 JST Dad

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     @sinbad Interesting. No extra sugar in my wife’s sourdough bread. Maybe the type of wheat she uses or the multi-day feeding it gets.

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     The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 20:10:12 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

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     @GeekAndDad sourdough has much longer to extract sugar from the wheat so it doesn’t need it, that’s the old fashioned way. Too much maintenance for me though