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Keeping homemade bread fresh

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  • 07-04-2022 9:06pm
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    rje66
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    Just wondering is there anything I can add to my bread to keep it from going stale after a day?? Love bread making and they generally don't get eaten quickly, want to avoid freezing too. Suppose I could just make smaller loaves......



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    mrslancaster
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    Love to know this also...



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    inajock
    Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭inajock


    If it's a brown soda I add two soup spoons of vegetable oil with the buttermilk and clingfilm when its cold



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    rje66
    Registered Users Posts: 1,210 ✭✭✭rje66


    Not soda bread, mostly yeast breads with addes flavours . Foccaccia etc



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    MacDanger
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058240773/keeping-homemade-bread-fresh

    Make your mix wetter if you can. I changed my soda bread recipe to add a good bit more buttermilk and it lasts a few days now where previously it was pretty stale on day 2



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    inajock
    Registered Users Posts: 144 ✭✭inajock


    Well you've got me there. We're a soda house, I must give the yeast bread a spin.



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    maestroamado
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118895980#Comment_118895980

    yeast is for making drink not bread...



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    inajock
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    Whiskey not wine



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    Jim_Hodge
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    Homemade bread will never keep for long as it hasn't the chemicals added that are in commercially produced breads. Proper storage is the only way to get a few days from it. Moisture must be conserved to avoid going stale.



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    Spanish Eyes
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    Can I ask why you do not want to freeze it? Is a godsend to me sliced up into daily amounts. When defrosted you do have to scoff it quickly or it just goes meh and can lose its crusty delight.... but that is happening when fresh after a short time anyway.

    I saw on Youtube or somewhere that if you sprinkly stale (ish) bread with water and put in the oven for a few minutes it comes back to life. Haven't tried it myself though, just grab a few slices from the ahem.... freezer.



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    Tree
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    A few things I find help the bread keep:

    • Freezing it (though usually it just gets turned into toast, but you can pull a slice frozen and toast away)
    • Adding milk/yoghurt the mix (softer on day one, and still soft day two, day three is back to toast-worthy)
    • Adding a tangzhong (part of the dough gets cooked and beaten in, it's kinda fiddlier that just lashing in some yoghurt, but it's great in things you don't make often like bagels)

    I make ~550g flour loaves in a 10cmx10cmx30cm tin. Somedays we (two of us) hoover it up in 36 hours, other times it ends up hanging around long enough to turn into breadcrumbs (which also live in the freezer)



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